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Jim McLean on his 25% Theory to Golf Instruction, The X-Factor for Power, and Lessons from the Greats Jul 29, 2024

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Jim McLean is one of the foremost golf instructors in the history of the game. He has been a Top Three Instructor in America for 25 years, and he has taught a number of the greats in the game ranging from Gary Player and Bernhard Langer to Gary Woodland, Greg Norman, Keegan Bradley and Lexi Thompson.

A TV and Radio personality, a published author, and a member of the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame, McLean is a wealth of knowledge, experience and expertise and he joins #OntheMark to talk about golf, golf instruction and game improvement theories.

He shares lessons from some greats of instruction and the PGA TOUR including:

Homer Kelly and Ben Doyle - The Golfing Machine and Swing Positions and Lag

Claude Harmon - Playing the Game and Anti-Hook maneuvers

Ken Venturi - Being Tough and Competitive

Jackie Burke - Playing Free and Visualization

Sam Snead - Athleticism in the Golf Swing

Lee Trevino - Swinging and Understanding Your Swing

Jim also talks about his 25% Theory to Game Improvement - Long Game, Short Game, Mental Game, and Management.

He talks about his "8 Step Swing" and the "Safety Zones" around each step, and he elaborates on his theory of the "X-Factor for Power."

Learn about the golf-swing, how to understand, and remedy your swing, and how to play the game. Download and share this podcast, or search and subscribe to Mark Immelman on YouTube to watch the conversation.

David Swan with the "Pur" Truth for Developing a Consistent Putting Stroke and Making More Putts Jul 23, 2024

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David Swan is the founder and developer of the the PUR TRUTH™ Putting Training Aids - a complete system that addresses every component of putting while building all the fundamentals of the perfect putting stroke.

He joins Mark Immelman to introduce his Pur Training Aids, The Pur Golf Truth Trainer and the Pur Golf Truth Prepare.

David explains the inspiration behind the training aids and shares staggering statistics on how important putting is to score reduction, and how little putting is coached, taught and practiced.

He illustrates and explains how each aid works, the elements they teach, and how they can be used to drill and galvanise strokes, while also "gamifying" practice by adding an element of pressure to preparation.

The Aids will teach you how the following keys to putting success, feel and play:

Posture, Alignment and Aim
Eyeline at address and through the stroke
Stroke Shape and Path
Putter-face alignment through the stroke and at impact, and
Start line

The Pur trainers make practice easy, fun and productive thanks to the immediate stroke, contact and start-line feedback. They also make home-work and practice easier and are guaranteed to improve your putting stroke, the quality of your putts, and your number of putts made.

This podcast is also available on YouTube where David and Mark illustrate how the aids work.

David and Pur Golf have also given #OntheMark listeners a discount code to get 25% off the purchase - use code Mark25.

Rob Rea on Breathwork Fundamentals for Stress Reduction and High Performance under Pressure Jul 17, 2024

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Known as "That Breath Guy," Rob Rea is originally from Belfast in Northern Ireland. Based in London, England he originally worked in Banking, but a trip to Bali changed the course of his life. The trip and the experiences led him to take in a range of different teachings and modalities of breathwork. From Pranayama, Somatic Experiencing, Qi Gung, Functional Breathwork, Breathwork for Performance, to Transformational Breathwork and Yoga Teacher Training, Rob dived into the dynamic world of stillness.

He joins the #OntheMark podcast to help you to explore various breathwork practices and methodologies, and explore the connection between your physiological and psychological states.

Rob shows how you can create a stillness within for a sanctuary for creativity, introspection and healing, and how you can reduce tension, anxiety and stress and improve your health, well-being and your performance on the golf course.

You will learn about:

Mindfulness and Meditation

Nasal vs Mouth Breathing

Various types of Breathing Patterns

Controlling your Central Nervous System and getting into a Parasympathetic (Flow) State, and

Vagus Nerve Stimulation.

As Rob takes you through a lesson in Breathwork Fundamentals he will teach you how to develop "Ice in your mind with fire in your body" so you can maximize your performance under pressure.

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

Averee Dovsek with Tips to help You Gain More Clubhead Speed and Distance off the Tee Jul 08, 2024

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Averee Dovsek is a professional golfer, a TV and Media personality, the host of her own podcast "Why You Suck at Golf" and a Women's Long Drive Contestant.

She has made rapid strides in the Long Driving arena and since 2021 has improved her clubhead speed from an average of 103 mph to 116 mph. In other words she has gone from averaging around 280 yards off the tee to well over 300 yards.

Averee joins #OntheMark to help you ramp up your clubhead and ball speed to get a little extra pop off the tee. She shares many insights to more powerful tee-shots including:

Productive, simple driving range work focussing on strike quality
Getting comfortable hitting a lot of balls
Building extension and width at the top of the swing
Ball position and Tee height for ascending strikes
The proper weight shift and body movement for power
Head stability and balance
Using your eyes properly for improved balance, and
Shaft lengths and flexes for maximizing clubhead speed.

She also shares a few tips to help you suck less at golf - Dealing properly with information overload, Watching video for improvement, "Swallowing the pill" and realizing your mistakes, Better scoring from 100 yards and in, Gym workouts and mobility and flexibilty, Mental maturity and Dealing with nerves.

This podcast is also available on YouTube - search and subscribe to Mark Immelman.

Brian Bailie on Statistics and Building an A.I. Assisted Training Model to Improve your Golf Score Jul 02, 2024

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Brian Bailie is a Professional Golf Coach who specializes in Putting and Short Game. He has over 17 years of Collegiate Coaching experience for Men’s and Women’s Programs and during his tenure at The University of Virginia he was selected as the National Assistant Collegiate Coach of the Year in 2010.

Brian is also a co-founder of the GameForge Golf Statistics and Performance App and joins #OntheMark to help you to understand your performance markers and improve them for better scoring.

His A.I. powered GameForge App is able to aid in understanding and predicting performance by way of modelling, using data metrics like Greens in Regulation, Scrambing and Total Putts.

In the conversation Brian elaborates on:

The correct "language" of scoring
Putting distance control and Green reading
Birdie conversion, and
The statistical model to being a Scratch golfer

He also delves into performance improvement elements like:

How 'concepts' are killers for mindsets
How the 'short game' is the anchor to good play
The danger of training what you are good at
How golf is like a Decathlon
Approach Play values in contrast to Distance Gain values, and
Feedback loops and Reflection periods for improvement.

Brian also illustrates a Finger Measurement System - like Aimpoint in Putting - for picking appropriate targets on full shots. Watch this podcast on YouTube; search and subscribe to Mark Immelman.

Playing Better Golf with Smylie Kaufman - Lessons from Inside the Ropes Jun 26, 2024

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Smylie Kaufman is a golf professional and former winner on the PGA TOUR and the Korn Ferry Tour. After battling injury and a dip in form he has stepped away from competitive golf to become an on-course announcer and a golf analyst for NBC Sports and Golf Channel.

Now one of the leading voices in golf, he joins #OntheMark to talk about his life in golf - from his days as a junior through to his rise up the PGA TOUR ranks to the Winner's Circle.

As he takes us through his life in golf, Smylie shares many insights and lessons that are sure to help you understand the nature of golf, and get the most out of your game.

Among other topics, he specifically addresses:

Having a plan for improvement
Commitment to the task and consistency of effort
Building confidence
Decision-making for the future in comparison to a short-term outlook
Being true to your Golf DNA
Expectation management
Mindset and mental strength
Dealing with criticism and social media
Understanding yourself and your tendencies
Breaking out of a bad cycle
The psychology of golf goals
Patience and developing that attitude and skill, and
Temper and emotion and how to channel them for success.

As Smylie weaves a fun and interesting story of his career and the lessons he has learned along the way, he references PGA TOUR stars like Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Rickie Fowler, and Rory McIlroy. He also talks about things that he watched Bryson DeChambeau do well en route to his US Open victory at Pinehurst #2.

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

Andrew Reynolds Helps You to Perform Under Pressure Jun 17, 2024

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Andrew Reynolds is a Cognitive Performance Coach based in England. He is sought out by leading golf professionals and club golfers alike for his research and experience based insights on how to perform under pressure.

Reynolds blends insights learned from his degrees in Psychology and Sports Psychology with elements from Neuroscience and Skill Acquisition to develop his philosophies, drills and exercises.

He joins #OntheMark to share some of those insights incl:

Why performance sometimes diminishes under pressure
Rewiring neural pathways for consistent mental performance
The mindset to breaking barriers
The habit of embracing nerves
Using routines to dial mental focus, and
How to make your practice translate to the golf course.

He also shares 5 ways to lower scores by using certain Strokes Gained metrics.

Andrew's insights and lessons are guaranteed to help you cut out the noise, focus the mind and allow your best self to show up when the pressure is heightened. Download and share, and go to YouTube to watch Andrew and Mark's conversation. Search and subscribe to Mark Immelman.

Ryan Brehm with PGA TOUR Keys to Improve Driving and Putting Jun 13, 2024

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Ryan Brehm is a PGA TOUR and Korn Ferry Tour winner. A native Michigander he parlayed a successful career as a player, and an Assistant Coach, into a long-time career on the PGA TOUR.

He joins Mark Immelman on the #OntheMark podcast to discuss his career in the game, and share lessons he learned along the way. Among many game improvement topics, he elaborates on:

Navigating the mental and physical challenges of the game
Success by way of loving the process over the results
Turning off the "noise" in the mind
Willingly changing attitudes for the better
Allowing yourself to free up to perform
Dealing with failure
"Feel vs Real" and drills to help fortify appropriate feels
Using intuition and instinct for better play
Accuracy over power off the tee for better scores, and
Making more putts by focussing on stroke timing and cadence.

Improve your mind, your attitude and your game with Ryan's PGA TOUR proven insights.

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

Julie Elion on Retraining Your Mind for Better Performance Jun 04, 2024

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Julie Elion Performance Coach and is the founder of CAPE (The Center for Athletic Performance Enhancement) Sports Performance. Throughout her 25+ year career her goal has been to "help the whole person" as a way to higher athletic performance.

Julie is one of the formost minds in her field and her client list is a "who's who" on the PGA TOUR and LPGA - Major Champions and PGA TOUR winners such as Wyndham Clark, Gary Woodland, Max Homa, Justin Thomas and Phil Mickelson.

She joins #OntheMark to help you to retrain your mind for peak performance.

As Julie talks about high performance and the relationship between the mental and the physical game she addresses:

The nature of Mental Work
Overcoming Anxiety
Neuroplasticity and Retraining the Mind
Focussing on Processes instead of Results

Julie also teaches you how to develop and grow your "Mental Toolbox" and shares a few anecdotes of how Max Homa and US Open Champion Wyndham Clark improved theirs for enhanced performance under pressure.

Grow the "garden of your mind." Download, listen and share this podcast or seach and subscribe to Mark Immelman on YouTube to watch it.

James Jankowski on the Real Truth to Holing More Putts May 28, 2024

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James Jankowski is a British PGA Professional who has coached more that 200 professionals worldwide. Respected as one of the foremost putting experts in Europe, James joins the #OntheMark podcast to bust some myths, and expose some misconceptions, that could be keeping you from putting your best.

In their in-depth conversation about putting, James and Mark address the following topics:

Putter styles and the Value of Putter Fitting
Lag Putting to Improve Scores
Holing Out More Proficiently, and
Drills for Consistency on the Greens

James also brings the truth to a few misconceptions on the greens:

When the putting stroke accelerates and decelerates during the stroke
Does putting stroke length really dictate speed control
What is the correct ball-position and eye-line position
Aiming and starting putts on line, and
Putter fitting and matching putter styles to stroke tendencies.

This podcast is also available as a vodcast so you can see James demonstrate his putting tips and research findings. Search and subscribe to Mark Immelman on YouTube.

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