

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 13, 2021 • 10min
#13 Trail Leg Action and Improvements - 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 #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.)

Dec 13, 2021 • 10min
#12 Wrist Alignments - 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 #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.

Dec 11, 2021 • 13min
#11 Body Rotation and Arm Swing Relationships - 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 #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.

Dec 10, 2021 • 11min
#10 Trail Arm & Swing Width - 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 #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.

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.


