On the Mark Golf Podcast

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Matthew Caldaroni on How to Reinvent Yourself for Better Performance Dec 03, 2024

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Molliteum is already within you; it’s how you got through that tough time in your life when you didn’t think you could. It’s how you made the decision to push yourself when you thought you had nothing left to give. It’s how you became the best version of yourself.

Some call it grit, others call it mental toughness, but Matt Caldaroni calls it Molliteum. He joins #OntheMark to explain the concept and how you can become more resilient so you can become the best version of your athletic self.

Caldaroni discusses:

Mindest Coaching for athletes
Helping athletes reach their full potential through resilience
Developing toughness
How GOATS are made - playing mentally free, an inward focus, and embracing setbacks
The truth behind why most athletes fail
The Kaizen approach, and
Repetition, reprogramming of the mind and reinventing yourself

This podcast is also availabe as a vodcast on YouTube - search and subscribe to Mark Immelman to view it and learn how to become a GOAT.

Molliteum means resilience, and resilience is the extra gear within high performers. It is what separates the average from the iconic/legendary and the “try-er’s” from the “do-er’s.”

Allowing Your Eyes to Lead Your Body to Better Golf with Jondo Sports Nov 25, 2024

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The eyes are an athlete's, and a golfer's biggest weapon and so it would make sense to train them, as well as protect and enhance what they see. Jondo Eyewear, with its Krisp technology built into every lens, does just that.

Mark Immelman is joined by South Africa's Dr. Pieter Naude (Optometrist and inventor of the Krisp technology), Mike De Jongh (former ATP Tennis Player and Jondo partner) and Morne Botha (Jondo CEO) to talk about the eyewear and how they are specifically designed to be the best sport-performance/fashion eyewear in the business.

The Jondo organizational aim is to provide golfers with high contrast enhancement lenses for better on-course performance. As the Jondo crew introduce the eyewear the following performance elements are discussed:

Krisp Technology vs Polarized lenses and how Krisp virtually eliminates haze and glare.
How the Jondo eyewear boosts Reds, Greens and Blues of the color spectrum and how those colors help golfers to better sight the golf-ball, read greens and see contrasts in slope and grain.
Spectral Filtration - what it is and what it does for a golfer's performance
Perceptual Distortion and how Jondo Eyewear's design elimimates that, and
Jondo's lens design and thickness and how it protects from injury to the eyes.

This podcast is also available on YouTube as a vodcast. Go to YouTube and seach for, and subscribe to Mark Immelman. Also use the code OntheMark for a discount on your pair of Jondo sunglasses.

Improve Your Alignment and Your Putting with "On Point" Insights from Briston Peterson Nov 18, 2024

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Briston Peterson is the founder of On Point Golf. On Point manufactures the revolutionary 3D domed Golf Ball Marker.

The On Point Marker is designed to improve your Spatial Acuity which in turn leads to improvements in green-reading, aim and alignment, and eventually more holed putts.

The reason for the success of the marker is that human being are 3D creatures, living in a 3D world, but our eyes can show us only two dimensions. The On Point 3D Marker bridges that gap and allows a golfer to dial-in his/her focus and intensely concentrate, creating the effect of "tunnel vision" which enhances the golfer's confidence on the greens.

Briston joins #OntheMark to introduce the marker, illustrate how it works, and dive into the mechanics of how it helps a golfer to improve his/her stereoscopic vision for better alignment and the commensurate marginal gains that promotes.

He also shares a putting tip from On Point Ambassador, US Open champion Jim Furyk.

Other putting improvement concepts include:

Improvements in Putting Speed and Lines
Charting Marginal Gains for Confidence
The Value of Instinct and the "First Impression" in Green Reading, and
Reading Greens from a Wide to Narrow perspective and approach.

This podcast is sure to help you improve your confidence on the greens in order to lower your scores. Listen to it on audio or watch it on YouTube - search and subscribe to Mark Immelman.

Richard Lee Takes You to Short Game Boot Camp Nov 13, 2024

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Richard H. Lee is a former PGA TOUR professional who has retired from tournament golf and turned to TV Announcing and Golf Teaching.

The University of Washington graduate played on both the Korn Ferry and the PGA TOUR and he brings an acute knowledge of the mindset and technique required to perform under pressure.

Richard joins Mark Immelman to help you pluck that "low hanging fruit" and lower your scores by improving your Putting, Chipping, Pitching, Lob Shots and Bunker Shots. In his explanations and tutorials he teaches about the technique and concepts required to excel, under pressure on any shot on or around the green.

Putting - Controlling your internal clock, Triggers for focus, Preparation, Being instinctive, Earning the right to putt well, Ball-strike and Start-lines, Stroke callibration, "Making deposits in the Bank" and his "5 Pillars to Putting."

Chipping and Pitching - Predictability and Shot percentages for success, Positive mindsets, Avoiding compounding errors, Momentum savers, Understanding how the Wedge works, and Reading lies.

Bunker Play - Appropriate Stance and Posture and Alignment, Practice Drills for better bunker shots and the concept of "Getting Taller through the Strike."

This podcast is also available as a vodcast on YouTube. Search and subscribe to Mark Immelman.

Leo Herrera Shares Course Management Insights to Improve your Scoring Nov 04, 2024

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Leopoldo (Leo) Hererra is a professional golfer, a performance coach and the founder of "The Connected Golfer." Orginally from Venezuela, Leo represented his country in their national team and his success led him to being recruited to college (Univ. of Central Florida) in the USA. During his time at UCF he discovered his purpose; he turned professional and founded "The Connected Golfer," a step-by-step model to help and guide golfers to their best golf ever.

He has also published a manual for better performance and he joins #OntheMark to talk about his career in golf, and help you level up your game by better Golf Course Management:

Understanding, respecting, and playing to your strengths
Target selection and aiming at the middle of the green
Recovery from trouble and "taking your medicine"
Shot placement and the value of putting up-hill
Understanding course conditions and appropriate club selection, and
Post-round reflections for growth.

Improve your course management and watch your scores improve. Download and share or watch on Youtube by searching and subscribing to Mark Immelman.

Kolby (K-Wayne) Tullier on How to Optimize Your Body for Elite Performance Oct 29, 2024

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Coach Kolby “K-Wayne” Tullier is one of the leading sports performance coaches and a published author.

He is also coach to a "Stable" of notable golfers including Justin Thomas, Max Homa, Tommy Fleetwood, Sungjae Im and Lexi Thompson. His life and work experiences have taught him how to optimize the human body for sports performance and injury prevention, and K-Wayne brings lessons from his "Stable" as he joins the #OntheMark show to talk about health, wellness, working out, golf-specific strength and injury prevention.

He also introduces the "Burn 180 System" and shows how its use can help you to a better body and more powerful and consistent golfswings.

While illustrating the multiple uses of the Burn 180 Band Training device, Kolby talks about golf-specific execises for joint protection and an improved, more powerful pivot and body movement.

He also shares insights and recommendations on improving Cardiovascular fitness for better undurance on the golf course.

The entire podcast and the exercises K-Wayne demonstrates can be viewed on YouTube. Search and subscribe to Mark Immelman. Use discount code Kolby10 to get a discount on your purchase of the Burn 180.

Ben Fowler on the Advancements of AI Driven Golf Instruction and How it can Help You Oct 24, 2024

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Ben Fowler (Masters Degree in Data Sciences) is a PGA Professional who through extensive research realised that, despite the influx of information available, the average handicap of all players has not gone down appreciably.

This fact led him to develop PlayIQ, and AI driven system. PlayIQ employs state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms to scrutinize each frame of a golf swing. By capturing high-resolution video, PlayIQ can precisely analyze critical aspects of the swing. Elements such as spine angle, knee bend, hip rotation, and club position. The computer vision technology identifies these elements and compares them against ideal swing mechanics, offering targeted feedback on specific strengths and areas for improvement.

Ben joins #OntheMark to introduce and illustrate how the system works, and how it can help you figure out the exact issues within your technique that are letting you down.

He describes:

What an AI golf lesson involves
How the system collects data and information
How the system tailors the insights and tips to your specific problems, and
How PlayIQ give you a complete Swing Analysis, how it compares your golfswing to other fundamentally sound swings, how it provides recommendations for improvement and how it offers Drills and Exercises to accelerate understanding, feel and improvement.

His goal with the development of PlayIQ was to make golf instruction more accessible, affordable and helpful and this podcast is sure to help you on your way to getting a golf lesson tailored to your specific needs. You can also watch the conversation between Mark Immelman and Ben Fowler on YouTube. Search and subscribe to Mark Immelman.

Joel Dahmen - His Life in Golf, Lessons Learned Along the Way and Keys to Good Scoring Oct 18, 2024

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Joel Dahman is a PGA TOUR winner and one of the most popular players in golf. The Washington State native joins #OntheMark to talk with Mark Immelman about his life and his career in golf.

Joel shares stories and lessons learned during his journey from Junior Golf through College and the Mini Tours to the Korn Ferry Tour and eventually the PGA TOUR.

He talks about his keys to success, his personal battle with cancer and the mindset required to navigate those personal challenges to eventually win on the PGA TOUR.

Joel also talks about his friendship with caddy, Geno Bonnalie, and their foray into the entertainment industry as part of the Netflix series, Full Swing.

In this particularly candid interview, Joel takes you inside the ropes on the PGA TOUR while blending the human element of being a husband and a father while competing agains the world's best golfers. He also talks about his game, his strengths, his weaknesses and how he is such an accurate iron player.

He talks at length about the following game improvement and Iron-play success keys:

Dealing with nerves and setbacks
The Tiger Woods effect in the game
Sports Psychology and its place in golf
Keeping a healthy perspective through the ups and the downs
A Golfer's thought-life and how to react positively to it all
Keys to Iron-game Proximity success, incl. appropriate Launch Angles, and Target Selection
How to hit a fairway-finder, and
Bogey Avoidance vs Birdie Production

This podcast is also available as a Vodcast on YouTube. Search and Subscribe to Mark Immelman's YouTube Channel.

Fat Perez with Advice on How to "Have a Day" on the Golf Course Oct 15, 2024

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Fat Perez is known as "The Most Comfortable Man in Golf." A member of the YouTube sensation "Bob Does Sports," a group of fun sports fans who do brilliantly dumb things on the golf course, FP is a gamer who played competitive golf collegiately and can compete with the best.

He joins our #OntheMark podcast to tell his story, share insights from how he approaches competitive golf, and share his tips on how to get the most out of your game.

He leans into some of the things that he does that can help any club golfer to better and more consistent golf:

Making the most of limited practice time
Putting Drills to hole more "money-makers"
Clubface awareness Drills to reset feels and improve accuracy
Course Management tips to avoid big numbers
Playing your game - playing percentages, playing for mishits, being real with yourself
Not acting flustered for consistent performance
Not trying to fix your swing mid-round
Respecting Par and realizing the value of one stroke, and
Avoiding Mulligans

You are sure to learn some simple ways to improve your golf and your scores so you can "have a day" every time you go and play.

Search and subscribe to Mark Immelman on YouTube to watch the conversation between Fat Perez and Mark Immelman.

Dr. Paul Wood on How to Become a Wizard with a Wedge Oct 08, 2024

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Dr. Paul Wood is the VP of Engineering at Ping Golf and leads a department responsible for Club Design, Research, Development, Innovation and Testing. One of the leading minds in the golf industry his passion if for the Physics of Ball Flight, and the Golf-club and Golf Ball interation.

His passion for engineering led him to conduct a test, using Ping's high speed motion capture system - FOCAL, to capture data from 150 different players hitting wedge shots to various targets. (FOCAL tracks the entire swing and gives the best club impact numbers in the world.)

Paul joins the #OntheMark podcast to share his findings and in so doing help you become a better Wedge player.

Information shared and discussed includes:

Impact Location and its effect
Ball Speed, the correlation to Distance and the Ideal Numbers
Angle of Attack Variability and Golf-swing Low Point Control
Steep vs. Shallow swings and their effects
Spin Loft and the Ideal Numbers for Success
Ideal Launch Angle Numbers, and
Draw vs Fade Biases in Wedge play

This podcast is sure to help you understand exactly how a well-struck Wedge shot happens and what you need to do in order to become a wizard with a Wedge.

Download or search and subscribe to Mark Immelman to watch and see all of the data and graphs Dr. Wood shares.