

On the Mark Golf Podcast
PGA TOUR
Mark Immelman, golf broadcaster, acclaimed instructor, and former college coach, delivers top insights to improve your golf game. He interviews PGA Tour Players, swing coaches, caddies, fitness and mental coaches, equipment gurus, and more, giving listeners inside the ropes access to the very best minds in golf.
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Dec 9, 2021 • 10min
Mark Immelman’s Advent Golf Tips to Improve Your Golf Swing - #9 Trail Arm Action pt. 2
Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #9 Mark follows up Tip #8 with a Trail Arm drill, as used by Sergio Garcia, that will help you keep your trail elbow working in harmony with your torso. It will also help quell a "Flying Elbow" at the top of the backswing and it is a surefire way to eliminate that dreaded "Over the Top" move which leads to weak strikes and sliced shots.

Dec 8, 2021 • 12min
Mark Immelman’s Advent Golf Tips to Improve Your Golf Swing - #8 Trail Arm Action pt.1
Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #8 Mark addresses an important principle to controlling Golf-swing Width and Radius, Path, and Angle of Attack. Understanding how, and where, the Trail Arm works in the backswing and downswing will set you on the road to more control and better ball-striking. Immelman's lesson includes a PGA TOUR tested drill to quicken your feel and learning.

Dec 8, 2021 • 15min
Mark Immelman’s Advent Golf Tips to Improve Your Golf Swing - #7 Palm and Clubface Relationships
Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #7 Mark demonstrates the relationship between the Trail Palm (of the hand) and the Clubface - with either a Neutral, a Strong, or a Weak Grip - and how an understanding of this relationship can improve your control of the clubface. Learn to connect your brain to your hands and improve the accuracy of your golf shots.

Dec 7, 2021 • 10min
Mark Immelman’s Advent Golf Tips to Improve Your Golf Swing - #6 The Takeaway
Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #6 Mark talks about the start of the golf swing and its importance. Mark also shares a simple drill that you can do, at home or at the golf course, that will help you feel the correct spatial relationship between the golf club and your hands. The drill will also show the correct hand-path vs clubhead path.

Dec 6, 2021 • 9min
#5 Alignment and Aiming - Mark Immelman’s Advent Golf Tips to Improve Your 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 #5 Mark addresses an issue that many golfers struggle with - Body Aim and Alignment. Mark talks about the alignment misunderstandings and errors golfers make and then shares a simple "hack" you can use to ensure you are properly aligned over every shot.

Dec 4, 2021 • 8min
Mark Immelman’s Advent Golf Tips to Improve Your Golf Swing - #4 Distance from the Ball at Address
Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #4 Mark addresses the very important, yet largely overlooked fundamental, Distance from the Golf Ball at Address. It has a influence on Swing Path, Angle of Attack and to a certain extent, Face Angle. Mark shares his "Hand-Clap" Drill to show you how you can guarantee the correct distance from the ball with every club.

Dec 3, 2021 • 9min
Mark Immelman’s Advent Golf Tips to Improve Your Golf Swing - #3 Side Bend
Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #3 Mark talks about creating "side bend" at address to help in creating upward Angle of Attack, for more power off the tee, with the Driver. He also share a simple pre-shot drill to set you up in the correct tilt with the appropriate amount of side bend.

Dec 2, 2021 • 10min
Mark Immelman’s Advent Golf Tips to Improve Your Golf Swing - #1 Activate Posture
Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #2 Mark addresses Posture and the importance of being athletically activated at address. He also shares a simple drill that will help you to ensure you get the appropriate tilts (spinal), and bends (knees and hips) set up at address.

Dec 2, 2021 • 40min
Improve your Understanding of Golf Swing Mechanics with Mark Bull
Mark Bull is a PhD in Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Science, and a qualified PGA coach. A pioneer in Human Movement and Golf Swing Performance and 3D Biomechanics, he joins us to share his coaching philosophies to help you gain a better understanding of how the golf swing works. Among the many biomechanical concepts he discusses he talks in depth about: Ground Reaction Forces (GRF) and their relationship with hand-path and proprioception. Long-term memory and its influence on golf swing kinematics. The influence of mood on the golf swing. The shape of the body's influence on rotation and movement. Posture and the golf swing, and Being "elastic vs. Plastic".

Dec 1, 2021 • 11min
#1 Ball Position - Mark Immelman's Advent Golf Tips to Improve Your 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 #1 Mark addresses the very important, yet largely overlooked fundamental, Ball Position. Ball Position has an influence on not only shot trajectory, it also influences Swing Path, Angle of Attack and to a certain extent, Face Angle, and Mark shows how a $1 bill can help you get it right