On the Mark Golf Podcast

Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #18 Mark addresses teaches you how to reduce "Flipping" through impact. "Flipping" or over-use of the wrists is malady that plagues many golfers and is a costly power leak. Mark discusses how to improve compression in the ball-strike and shares a drill that will calm down any excess use of the trail hand, a major contributor to flipping, through impact.

Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #17 Mark teaches you the "Pump Drill" - one of his favorite drills of all time. He learned it from David Leadbetter and its purpose is to properly sequence the body movement and the arm-swing in early transition between back and downswings. Mark describes the drill; illustrates how it should be done, and elaborates on its benefits. Whether you are a highly skilled golfer or a beginner, the Pump Drill will help you improve your ball-striking.

Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #16 Mark addresses another, much talked about, element of body movement in the golf swing - Vertical Thrust. He describes with the vertical aspects of the swing and when they occur during the movement. He then describes an exercise and a drill that will teach you how use Ground Reaction Forces as you add, or enhance, the vertical element in your golf swing.

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Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #15 Mark addresses the engine of the golf swing - Body (specifically Torso) Rotation. He talks about the tilt on which the rotation occurs; he talks about the relationship between the Pelvis and the Shoulder Turns, and he talks about the location of the rotation in relation to the golf ball. He also shares his "Rope Drill" to help you learn and feel a powerful pivot.

Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #14 Mark explains the action of the hips and how they pivot throughout the swing and in relation to the movement of the arms. He also shares a drill, using an alignment rod, that can promote either a faster rotation, or a slower rotation of the hips, given whatever your swing, and/or your shot trajectory requires.

Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #13 Mark embellishes on how the trail leg operates in the backswing and downswing for balance, timing and power. Immelman shares a tip (and a drill) he got from Gary Player. (Player learned the drill for the feel of right leg action from the great Ben Hogan.)

Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #12 Mark talks about Wrist Alignments and how to properly train the feel for the correct hinging of the wrists in the backswing. He shares a drill, he learned from Nick Faldo and David Leadbetter, designed to improve the hinge/unhinge of the wrists, for improved clubface control and swing speed during the golf swing.

Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #11 Mark dives into the relationship between the body rotation and the swing of the arms. He shares the concept of "Long Body Turn; Short Arm Swing" and how adopting that mindset can make it easier to get the arms "back in front of the body" to improve impact and ball-striking. He shares two drills to help as well as anecdotes from Nick Faldo and Frank Nobilo to support the concept.

Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #10 Mark dives further into the action of the Trail Arm during the golf swing. He describes how it moves and how it folds and unfolds (for power) during the swing. He shares a Ben Hogan nugget about the action as well as a drill to check on the elbow shape and swing width at the top of the swing.