On the Mark Golf Podcast

Ryan Mouque hails from New Zealand but is based in Australia. He is a coach to TOUR players as well as avid golfers with a growth mindset who are keen to improve.  Highly researched and thoroughly certified he is an up-and-coming, bright mind in the industry. Mouque joins #OntheMark to help you improve your game with considerations that will both hasten and simplify the process of making swing changes and adjustments. With regard to making successful and lasting changes he elaborates on the following factors: Understanding that moving differently stems from the brain and how his "Goldilocks Method" will help, Full immersion in identifying the differences between "Feel and Real" and between "Old and New Feels," Grasping the mentality required to successfully and completely implement swing changes, "Freezer/Pause" golf swings and how they train new feels, The value of Slow-motion swings for learning and galvanizing change, The correct time to speed up the golfswing during the change process, and Gamifying practice (by using "spacing" and the addition of pressure and stress) to be able to take the new method to the golf course.  Make your practice purpose-driven and ensure your work toward improving your swing is productive, download this podcast, and watch is as a vodcast on YouTube. Search Mark Immelman.

David Leadbetter is one of the foremost golf instructors of all time.  Perennially one of Golf Digest Magazine's Top Instructors, he has taught multiple Major Champions including Nick Faldo, Nick Price and Ernie Els. Leadbetter has also influenced and mentored a number of successful golf instructors. He joins #OntheMark to share his insights on the golf swing and golf swing technique.  He also introduces his latest Swing Training Aid, The "Straight Away" and elaborates on how it can help you iron out the start of your golf swing - an area Leadbetter believes is highly influential and important to ball-striking success. David talks about how to start the swing consistently well.  He shares his 8 ways that golfers tend to incorrectly start the swing.  He talks about the areas of the body that are engaged and recruited in the 'move-away,' and he also highlights various feels you are likely to get with an athletic and appropriate start to the swing. As an add-on, Leadbetter shares some lessons from 3 of his most prominent students - Nick Faldo, Nick Price and Ernie Els.  He talks about 'Golf Swing DNA' and understanding your 'Swing Fingerprint,' and tendencies and how golf instincts, for teachers and players, are important to situational success. This podcast is also available on YouTube at youtube.com/@markimmelman. Log on and subscribe to watch Leadbetter discuss and demonstrate the golf swing.

On the Mark Podcast Host and CBS Sports Announcer, Mark Immelman shares six simple tips to easily lower your golf scores.   Easy to comprehend and simple to apply, adhering to these PGA TOUR proven methods is certain to help narrow your focus, eliminate mental clutter and make free and unencumbered golf-swings. Mark's insights are: Timing Practice appropriately, Creating Shots in Practice as Preparation for the Golf Course, The use of Complete and proper Yardages, Ego Management, A Pragmatic Approach to Situational Analysis, Breathing for Stress Relief, and Uplifting and beneficial Self-Talk. Download and share this podcast with your friends. It is certain to get your game physically and mentally in tune for success.

Tony Luczak a Golf PRofessional and the Director of the Professional Golf Management Program at the University of Central Oklahoma. Formerly at Mississippi State, Tony earned his PhD in Human Factors Engineering and focuses on Sports Engineering and Science to Improve Performance. Tony joins #OntheMark to share his research and insights on Performance, and the Observation that "How golfers learn is more important that the information provided." Along those lines, he shares his methodology of "Thinking, Training and Practicing" for quicker learning. He also elaborates on his "ABC's of the Golf Swing": Swing Path Quantifiables vs Clubface Alignments, The Dangers of the "Gorilla" Golf swing, The Importance of Smoothness in the Golf swing, The use of Analogies for Success, Feedback and Feedforward systems, "Intent" for Success, and The use of Drills for improved learning and application. This podcast is also available as a Vodcast on YouTube. Search Mark Immelman.

Hunter Mahan is an American professional golfer who played on the PGA Tour. A winner of two World Golf Championship events, the 2010 WGC-Bridgestone Invitational and the 2012 WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship, Mahan has spent 19 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Ranking. He reached a career-high world ranking of No. 4 in 2012, and in so doing became the highest ranked American golfer at the time. Now "retired" from competition Hunter joins "OntheMark" to discuss his life in the game, his career on the PGA TOUR, winning tournaments, and playing on Ryder and President's Cup Teams. He also talks about golf-swing technique, his golf-swing beliefs and philosophies, and discovering your golf-swing DNA. He also shares insights and experiences on: Handling Pressure, Managing Expectations, Proving Yourself, Finding Your Peaceful Place, What to Do when Things get Tough , and the Balance between Trying to Win and Allowing Victories to Happen. This podcast is also available as a Vodcast on YouTube. Search and subscribe to Mark Immelman.

Garth Milne is the co-founder of Wanna Be A Champion, a Golf Performance Academy in South Africa. He is a Golf Fitness Specialist and has been guiding and mentoring professional and amateur golfers for over 18 years. Garth (BSc - Honours in Human Kinetics) is certified with the National Academy (RSA) of Sports Medicine, the CHEK Institute and he is a TPI Certified Instructor. Milne is also involved with an organization called "Future Relevance LTD" founded by Mike Colley and David Melville, and he joins #OntheMark to introduce and explain the "Success Cube" inspired by Lego’s “Six Bricks."  Arranging and manipulating the Cube's bricks to assess performance in self-defined key focus areas empowers the user to engage in strategic thinking, planning, and problem-solving, fostering a culture of creativity and innovation.  While arranging the Cube, the active reflection on the actions necessary to achieve specific objectives, promotes heightened self-awareness and a better understanding of strengths and weaknesses. Consequently, the user can formulate and implement strategies more effectively to achieve his/her goals.  In short, building with DUPLO bricks that represent ideas, “Just Cube it!” engages the mind, body, and senses in an immersive activity.  In the podcast Garth explains, and Mark demonstrates each of the elements of the Success Cube - Attitude, Work Rate and Skill. They simulate a post-golf round debrief and how with the cube either students, or learners, or leaders or partners can stimulate non-confrontational analysis, assessment and critique of performance in an environment that promotes better learning and improvement. Attitude - Expectation Management and Self-Talk Work Rate - Engagement in Practice and Preparation Skills - Physical Skills and Complete Focus on Task Download, learn and see how the Success Cube can help you, or your family, or students transform their actions and behaviors into a "Growth Mindset. Future Relevance has offered a 50% discount on an annual membership which includes training modules on using the Success Cube to the first 20 people who use code GOLF2023. Go to futurerevelance.com, sign up for a membership and use the code. This podcast is also available as a vodcast on YouTube - Search Mark Immelman.

John Erickson is an American professional golfer who played, and won several events, on the Canadian Tour and the PGA Tour of Australasia Tour. Erickson was an early protege, alongside Mac O'Grady and Bobby Clampett, of The Golfing Machine (book) by Homer Kelley. After John retired from professional competition he took to research and instruction and developed the Advanced Ball-Striking System which ostensibly teaches elements exhibited by the best ball-strikers in the history of the game. He joins #OntheMark to talk about things great ball-strikers do with a special reference to Ben Hogan. Specifically John dives into the following: Differences between Swingers and Hitters, Proper Acceleration as a Key to Great Striking, Creating Force (Mass x Acceleration) "Pushing" and "Pulling" at the same time in the swing, Wide vs Narrow Stance-widths, The Body Pivot and a Pivot-Driven Hit, His "4:30" line of Delivery, and Leverage of the Rotation of the Torso in the golfswing. Improve your knowledge and understanding of how to strike the golf ball consistently and powerfully. Download this podcast or watch it on Youtube. Search Mark Immelman.  

Kent Osborne (Canada) is an Executive Coach, a Mental Skills Coach and a Performance Coach with decades of experience in sport (notably the NHL with the Detroit Red Wings) and the business-world. Kent's current passion is golf and he written various ebooks including: "The Golfer Who Developed a Scratch Attitude: Unlock the Game-Changing Power of Positive Emotions" with the goal of helping golfers to enjoy the game and play it with a "playful attitude" in order to play better. Kent joins #OntheMark to discuss what incorporates a Scratch Attitude.  He talks about the relationship between Feelings and Thoughts and how it is impossible think positive if you feel negative.  He talks about Emotions and how they are rooted in Habitual Patterns and how Rituals are more productive than Routines. Kent describes how you can play golf with a "Playful" manner where you are: Physically relaxed, Mentally calm and Emotionally free. He delves into that attitude and speaks about: Emotional Intelligence and Control as the Foundation of Happiness and Success, the Benefits of Being Happy after a Good Shot, the Detriments of Dwelling on Mistakes, Journaling and its advantages, and the value of Gratitude. You can also subscribe and watch this podcast at https://www.youtube.com/@MarkImmelman

Brian Manzella is a perennial member of Golf Digest magazine's 50 Best Teachers in America List. He is also a Golf Magazine Top 100 Teacher in America. His 40-year+ teaching career includes a long tutelage under the late Ben Doyle, and a lengthy relationship with PGA Champion, and multiple PGA TOUR winner David Toms. Brian joins #OntheMark to illustrate the Alpha, Beta and Gamma Axes and how the golf-club performs in relation to them throughout the golfswing. His insights are a function of the 3D Golf-swing Research done by the Michael Jacobs team. Using the "Jacobs' 3D Airplane he describes and illustrates the 3 Dimensional Kinetics the club undergoes during the golfswing.  He shows how and when the club is 'pushed or pulled' and when it is torqued.  Very importantly he illustrates how research on over three thousand golf-swings has proved that a good ball-striker makes the sum of the 'Moments Alpha' or 'Rotaters' positive in the transition into the downswing.  Brian illustrates the importance of this move in order to allay misunderstandings about shallowing the club in the downswing.  He shows drills and PGA TOUR examples, like Rory McIlroy and Lee Trevino to galvanize his points and insights. He also explains how Sergio Garcia strikes the golf ball so well by describing how various hand-paths results in different Alpha, Beta and Gamma Forces and Torques. It may sound complicated but it is really easy to learn to 'tumble' and not 'flop' the shaft angle in the downswing to strike the ball more powerfully and crisply. Go to youtube.com/@markimmelman and subscribe to watch the lesson.

Dr. Robert K. Winters is an internationally renowned Sports Psychologist, Author, and Professional Speaker. He holds Bachelor (B.S) and Master’s (M.A.) degrees from Ball State University and earned his Ph.D. doctorate in Sport Psychology from the University of Virginia. Dr. Winters has spent the past 35 years investigating how one’s thoughts and attitudes affect one’s ability to perform to their optimal talent level. He has helped all types of athletes get into the winner’s circle and he joins #OntheMark to help you play great golf. Dr. Bob delves into "Possibility Thinking and Purposeful Doing" as elaborates on the following keys to consistently great play: 1. I play my game 2. Beat the course 3. Make clear purposeful plans on every shot 4. The 80% Rule (Only hit the shot you can) 5. Get to a green light 6. Play one at a time 7. Accept the shot Bob shares other tips and exercises that can help in achieving each of these 7 nuggets - tips he believes are the most important insights he has taught throughout his career. Download and learn or watch on YouTube.