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#21 Hand Path - Mark Immelman's Advent Golf Tips to Improve Your Golf Swing Dec 21, 2021

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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 Woods as examples.

#20 Engineer Good Impact - Mark Immelman's Advent Golf Tips to Improve Your Golf Swing Dec 20, 2021

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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.

#19 Better Ball Contact - Mark Immelman's Advent Golf Tips to Improve Your Golf Swing Dec 20, 2021

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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 this simple drill.

#18 Reduce Flipping - Mark Immelman's Advent Golf Tips to Improve Your Golf Swing Dec 18, 2021

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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.

#17 The Pump Drill - Mark Immelman's Advent Golf Tips To Improve Your Golf Swing Dec 18, 2021

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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 or a beginner, the Pump Drill will help you improve your ball-striking.

#16 Body Movement (Vertical) - Mark Immelman's Advent Golf Tips to Improve Your Golf Swing Dec 17, 2021

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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.

Kyle Porter on "A Normal Sport" and a PGA TOUR Year-end Review Dec 16, 2021

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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 TOUR Team for 2021.

He also gives a Promo Code (OntheMark) discount of 30% to listeners.

#15 Body Rotation - Mark Immelman's Advent Golf Tips to Improve Your Golf Swing Dec 15, 2021

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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.

#14 Torso Rotation Timing - Mark Immelman's Advent Golf Tips to Improve Your Golf Swing Dec 14, 2021

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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.

#13 Trail Leg Action and Improvements - Mark Immelman's Advent Golf Tips to Improve Your Golf Swing Dec 13, 2021

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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.)

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