Bryson DeChambeau is a multiple winner on The PGA TOUR, a US Open champion and one of the leading figures on the global golf stage. He joins us to share his life in golf- from a young golfer in California, to a NCAA Champion and US Amateur Champion in college, to a winner on The PGA TOUR. Among many diverse topics DeChambeau discusses: His "one-length" golf clubs and how he came upon them, His approach to golf-swing technique from the Homer Kelley "Golfing Machine" one-plane approach, to his the...
Dec 27, 2021•53 min•Season 6Ep. 567
Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #24 (the final tip of the 2021 Advent Season) Mark addresses the Follow-Through and how a correct, and balanced, finish is the signal of good things. Mark describes a sound Follow-Through, a la Ben Hogan, and describes all of the physical elements in detail. He then builds on the finish and shares a drill that teaches how to swing back, down and into the correct Follow-Th...
Dec 24, 2021•10 min•Season 6Ep. 566
Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip # 23 Mark dives into a concept first described by Ben Hogan. The Hall of Fame legend compared the action of delivering the club through impact to the action of skipping a stone across water. Mark talks about this; describes its merits in how it will eliminate a steep downswing and improve clubhead speed and then shares a simple "Throwing" drill that will teach the feeling...
Dec 23, 2021•11 min•Season 6Ep. 565
Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #22 Mark talks about shallowing (in the downswing) and releasing (through impact) the golf club. He shares a simple drill you can do indoors or outdoors that will simplify the concept of shaft pitch and energy release. The "Shaft/Wall Drill" will teach you about clubshaft angle in the downswing and through-swing. It will teach you the spatial aspect of it and it will teac...
Dec 23, 2021•13 min•Season 6Ep. 564
"On the Mark Podcast" host Mark Immelman dons his Santa Claus hat and shares a few of his "Favorite Things." His favorite things to enjoy, on and off the golf course and before and after the round, include: The Dewiz Biofeedback Golf Swing Modifier The Lagshot Whippy Club The Bridgestone RXS Golf Ball The Cuater "Daily" Shoe The Municipal "Rec" Performance Hoodie The Flightscope Mevo+ Launch Monitor, and Vergelegen Wines available at vclubwine.com. Listen, learn and get promo codes for discounts...
Dec 22, 2021•35 min•Season 6Ep. 563
Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #21 Mark talks about "Hand Path" in the swing and its relationship to the clubhead and "Swing Path." Understanding the correct path of the hands, both back and down, and where they lower and change direction is paramount to understanding how to properly influence the path of the clubhead and shot-shape. Mark goes in-depth on the action referencing Matt Wolff and Tiger Woo...
Dec 21, 2021•18 min•Season 6Ep. 562
Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #20 Mark talks about how you can master a powerful and consistent impact position and strike better shots as a result. He shares a drill he learned from Nick Price - "The Impact Pre-set Drill." Mark illustrates the drill and explains how to do it correctly. He also explains its benefits and how it can help you improve your compression, control and power.
Dec 20, 2021•12 min•Season 6Ep. 561
Mark Immelman, host of the On the Mark Podcast, shares 24 Advent Season Golf Tips to help you improve your golf swing. In Tip #19 Mark shares a simple drill guaranteed to improve your ball-striking. The "Tee Drill" not only helps to locate the ball-strike better in relation to the toe and the heel, it also helps raise the contact into the center of the face to maximize the club's COG (Center of Gravity) and add elevation and power to your golf shots. Better locate the base of your swing arc with...
Dec 20, 2021•10 min•Season 6Ep. 560
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.
Dec 18, 2021•12 min•Season 6Ep. 559
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 ...
Dec 18, 2021•11 min•Season 6Ep. 558
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.
Dec 17, 2021•14 min•Season 6Ep. 557
Kyle Porter is a published author, a writer for CBS Sports and a golf analyst on "The First Cut" podcast. He has just written and released a digital manuscript, A Normal Sport. It is a funny and insightful look into the most meaningful events in world golf in 2021. Kyle shares stories from the book, incl. nuggets and anecdotes about Bryson DeChambeau, Phil Mickelson, Patrick Reed, Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy, The Ryder Cup, The Masters, The Open, The US Open and The PGA. He also shares his All-PGA...
Dec 16, 2021•41 min•Season 6Ep. 556
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....
Dec 15, 2021•12 min•Season 6Ep. 555
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.
Dec 14, 2021•9 min•Season 6Ep. 554
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•10 min
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 13, 2021•10 min•Season 6Ep. 552
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 t...
Dec 11, 2021•13 min•Season 6Ep. 551
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 10, 2021•11 min•Season 6Ep. 550
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 09, 2021•10 min•Season 6Ep. 549
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 08, 2021•12 min•Season 6Ep. 548
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 08, 2021•15 min•Season 6Ep. 547
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 07, 2021•10 min•Season 6Ep. 546
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 06, 2021•9 min•Season 6Ep. 545
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 04, 2021•8 min•Season 6Ep. 544
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 03, 2021•9 min•Season 6Ep. 543
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 02, 2021•10 min•Season 6Ep. 542
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 kin...
Dec 02, 2021•40 min•Season 6Ep. 541
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
Dec 01, 2021•11 min•Season 6Ep. 540
Born and raised in Ireland, now residing and working in the USA, Chris Kendrick (MBA, BS, CSCS, TPI, CPT) is a trainer at Catalyst Fitness in Atlanta, GA. A successful NCAA Collegiate golfer, Chris brings a unique golf playing influence to his work with golfers of all skill levels from the PGA TOUR to Club Golfers. He joins "On the Mark" to help you improve your golf swing with TPI-based stretches and drills for improved Mobility and Flexibility. He shares 5 stretches that will improve your over...
Nov 30, 2021•41 min•Season 6Ep. 539
Rick Gehman is the creator and owner of the golf database rickrungood.com. He is also the host of the CBS First Cut Golf Podcast and he joins us to guide you through the world of sports, and specifically, Golf Betting. He describes the different types of bets available. He delves into odds. He talks about DFS and highlights strategies for success. He advises on how to handicap a player, bearing in mind Strokes Gained metrics, Golf Course History, Form and Odds Values. In short Rick sets you up f...
Nov 12, 2021•59 min•Season 6Ep. 538
