

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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Oct 10, 2019 • 15min
Tips from The PGA TOUR. Episode 32. Make Putts Like Kevin Na
In a weekly podcast, Mark Immelman reviews the most recent PGA TOUR event and highlights lessons you can glean from the world's leading golfers. In Episode 32 Mark revisits the 2019 Shriners Hospitals for Children Open at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas, NV. Mark looks into Kevin Na's approach to success on and around the greens. Learn how to practice, prepare, adopt a winning mindset, handle pressure, and make more meaningful putts on the greens by examining how tournament-winner, Na, did it. Kevin Na also made a number of prudent course-management decisions en route to his win and Mark highlights those to help you improve your on-course decision-making.

Oct 3, 2019 • 43min
Tim Cusick on Maximizing Your Performance on the Golf Course
Tim Cusick is the Director of Instruction at The Four Seasons Resort and Club in Dallas, TX. He is an award-winning member of The PGA and a Golf Magazine Top 100 Golf Instructor. He joins "On the Mark" to help you maximize your performance out on the golf course. Tim helps you to "read" the lie of the golf ball (specifically Tight Lies, Wet Lies, Rough Lies, Divot Lies and Uneven Lies) and understand their respective influence on shot power and trajectory. He also discusses how to make the appropriate shot selection and swing adjustment for success. Tim also talks about the influence of the wind on shot trajectory and distance. From a playing and scoring perspective he also elaborates on a beneficial on-course mind-set.

Oct 1, 2019 • 15min
Tips from The PGA TOUR. Episode 31 - How to Improve Your Swing Speed Like Cameron Champ
In a weekly podcast, Mark Immelman reviews the most recent PGA TOUR event and highlights lessons you can glean from the world's leading golfers. In Episode 31 Mark revisits the 2019 Safeway Open in Napa, CA. Mark examines Cameron Champ's golf swing and his swing speed, and how you can emulate him and use the levers at your disposal to gain clubhead speed and add distance to your drives. Elements like Ball Position, Posture, Eyeline, Pivot/Rotation and Energy Transmission are discussed as Mark elaborates on how you can maximise each for your benefit. He also shares speed drills you can practice to up your swing speed.

Sep 27, 2019 • 14min
Tips from The PGA TOUR. Episode 30 - Learn from Sebastián Muñoz
In a weekly podcast, Mark Immelman reviews the most recent PGA TOUR event and highlights lessons you can glean from the world's leading golfers. In Episode 30 Mark revisits the 2019 Sanderson Farms Championship in Jackson, MS. Mark illustrates how you can make more short putts, and putt fast greens well, as Sebastián Muñoz did en route to his win. Mark addresses putting stroke length, acceleration profile and stroke intensity. He also elaborates on quality contact and improved body stability to promote consistency of a pendulum-style stroke. Included in the conversation are drills you can try to to improve all of the listed elements.

Sep 24, 2019 • 42min
Andrew Getson Shares His Simple Approach to Improved Golf
Andrew Getson (Australia) is a former Korn Ferry and Asian Tour Professional. He is now a leading golf instructor who plies his trade at the Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, AZ. A highly respected on The PGA TOUR, Getson works with such luminaries as Hall-of-Famer Phil Mickelson. In terms of approach to golf, Andrew is a disciple of noted teachers Steve Bann and Dale Lynch (Australia). In this podcast he shares his simple and easy to apply theories and describes how you can employ them to help you improve your golf from tee through green. He highlights some tips and drills to help you sync up and tighten up your golf swing, and he also shares insights on how to hit a flop-shot like Phil Mickelson.

Sep 18, 2019 • 15min
Tips from The PGA TOUR. Episode 29 - Learn from Joaquin Niemann
In a weekly podcast, Mark Immelman reviews the most recent PGA TOUR event and highlights lessons you can learn from the world's leading golfers. In Episode 29 Mark revisits The 2019 A Military Tribute at The Greenbrier. Mark shares insights from tournament-winner, Joaquin Niemann and 59-shooter, Kevin Chappell. Learn from Niemann's idiosyncratic golf swing and how he uses a beach-ball drill to improve his leg action and his spine tilts. Also, Mark addresses Kevin Chappell's incredible comeback from back (Microdiscectomy) surgery and the mindset and attitude it requires to maintain focus and attitude during recovery. Mark also brings a little levity when he addresses superstitions and how Kevin Chappell believed he could've shot a lower score than his posted 59.

Sep 17, 2019 • 42min
Mike Jacobs on the Forces and Torques on the Golf Club During the Swing
Mike Jacobs is one of "Golf Digest's 50 Best Teachers" and a "Golf Magazine Top 100 Instructor". He runs the most technologically-advanced lesson program in the world and helps golfers of all skill levels understand the marriage between the art and science of the golf swing as they improve their technique. He joins "On the Mark" to elaborates on the Alpha, Beta and Gamma forces and torques on the golf club during the golf swing. He delves into the movement of the golf club throughout the swing arc and how you, as the golfer, influence and affect its efficient movement.

Sep 9, 2019 • 44min
Dr Mike Wasilisin from MoveU on How to Properly Move and Use Your Body
Dr. Mike Wasilisin from "MoveU" has worked with over 10,000 patients and helped them to achieve the outstanding physical results they are capable of. He has a Bachelors Degree in Human Psychology and a Doctorate Degree in Chiropractic and he is committed to his higher purpose of inspiring the world to transform pain into into a powerful mind and body. He joins "On the Mark" to help you achieve your physical best in life and in golf. Mike works you through how to properly engage your body and muscles at posture for a more powerful and repeating golf swing. Dr. Mike addresses issues such as "Early Extension" in the golf, pain in the back and shoulders, and how to activate and properly engage the glutes for more power.

Sep 6, 2019 • 52min
Kiran Kanwar Elaborates on "The Optimal Performance Swing"
Kiran Kanwar was India's first female golf teaching professional and a winner of the 1983 All India Ladies' Open Amateur National Championship. She is widely researched with a BS (Physics & Math), a MS (Sports Science & Nutrition) and a PhD candidate (Biomechanics, Structural & Rehabilitation Sciences, & Sports Coaching Theory). She shares her "Optimal Performance Swing" and shares proven theories on how you can use it to shallow your downswing, approach the ball from the inside, make improved and consistent contact. Further, she advises how this all will straighten a slice and eliminate one side of the golf course. Simplify your golf swing and eliminate unnecessary movements while improving your ball-striking with Kiran Kanwar.

Aug 28, 2019 • 16min
Tips from The PGA TOUR. Episode 28 - Learn from Rory McIlroy
In a weekly podcast, Mark Immelman reviews the most recent PGA TOUR event and highlights lessons you can glean from the world's leading golfers. In Episode 28 Mark revisits the 2019 TOUR Championship at Eastlake in Atlanta, GA. Mark shares golf tips from tournament-winner Rory McIlroy and contender Justin Thomas. Mark talks about the value of goal-setting a la Thomas. He also addresses three lessons from Rory McIlroy: Practice Rounds and Preparation with focus and intention, Course Management and Golf Swing fundamentals and pace. Learn how you can emulate the 2019 FedEx Cup Champion.


