On the Mark Golf Podcast

Mike Stachura is the Senior Editor at Golf Digest. He has been on staff since 1992 and leads the massive endeavor that is the Golf Digest (Equipment) Hot List. Mike joins "On the Mark" to explain the Hot List and its purpose. He also addresses the importance of, the value of, and how to be properly fitted for golf clubs. Further, he talks about power off the tee, swing speed and Drivers. He contrasts Long Irons vs Hybrids/Utility Clubs and Blades vs Game Improvement Irons. He also talks Wedges and Putters.

In our 500th podcast, host Mark Immelman walks you through some shots required around the famed Augusta National Golf Club in The Masters. Mark addresses shots required off the tee and how certain shot shapes are rewarded. He also talks about avoiding a left-miss, which is crucial to avoiding big numbers at The Masters. He also talks about the challenge of playing iron shots off uneven lies and shows what you can do to strike those better. He addresses good greenside pitching and shares a chipping lesson from 1987 Masters champ, Larry Mize. Finally, Mark shares lag and short putting insights referencing Masters Champion, Tiger Woods. With regard to the mental game, Mark shares wisdom from Bobby Jones and a course management tip from Patrick Cantlay.

Dottie Pepper is a LPGA golf professional and winner of 17 tournaments including 2 Majors, The Nabisco Dinah Shore (The ANA Inspiration). Dottie is now an announcer for CBS Sports and has called countless events including The Masters, The Open and The PGA. She joins us to talk about her book release "Letters to a Future Champion." She shares countless insights, and the "Forbidden Material" she got from her lifelong golf coach, George Pulver. Lessons include tips on: The Golf Swing, Resilience and Attitude, Preparedness and Planning, Time Management, Mental Focus and Avoiding Distraction, the right Golf Equipment and Winning Tournaments. Dotties also shares some anecdotes from her career as a player like stories about Hall-of-Famers Tony Lema, Kathy Whitworth and Judy Rankin.

Kristi Block is a Canadian physiotherapist at Stapleford Health & Rehab Centre. A former competitive volleyball player she understands human movement and injury prevention. Kristi joins us to help you to better, pain-free movement and golf. Specifically she discusses better posture for wellness and for golf. She also systematically goes through the entire body from the neck, shoulders and back to the extremities and shares insights and simple exercises and movements to alleviate pain and promote well-being. Kristi also addresses nerve pain, including sciatica and talks about stretches to alleviate discomfort

Jeff Pelizzaro has been in golf his entire life and a golf fitness, strength and conditioning coach for the last 10 years. He and his partner started 18STRONG in 2014 and have been helping golfers of all skill levels (incl. PGA TOUR players) to better strength and physical well-being ever since. Jeff joins our podcast to share their mantra and philosophy on health and fitness as they pertain to overall well-being, and golf. In doing so he addresses strong posture for better, powerful golf swings. He also shares his "blueprints" for: Daily motion, mobility, flexibility and strength routines, fat-loss, pre-round stretches and warm-ups, the cycle to better health and good, strong golf bodies.

Kiel Alderink is a PGA Professional and a Golf Digest Top Teacher Under 40 in America. An expert in "Mental Golf Types" he joins us to discuss the different personalities of all golfers and what approaches you can take to identify yours, and how you can modify your work to maximize your talents and skills. Kiel talks about "Intuitive" and "Sensory" type personalities and how they perceive and focus. He also talks about variability in learning and getting in the "zone" and includes PGA TOUR player examples such as Rory McIlroy and Dustin Johnson.

Oli Leett is a British Golf Professional, golf instructor and putting coach. He runs the "Leett Putting Hub" and he joins "On the Mark to help you to make more putts and lower your scores. Oli shares his unique journey through the game and how he has to overcome a physical obstacle to excel as he motivates you to make the most of your situation. He also addresses: Putter Fitting, Putter Styles and their influence on the stroke, Green Reading, a good Mindset and Productive Practice including Maintenance and Performance.

Marty Jertson is a PGA Professional and the Director of Product Development for Ping. Marty is credited with the design of many of the company's golf clubs, and is listed on over 125 patents. Marty joins On the Mark for a second time, and this time he addresses the many environmental factors that influence the distance of a golf shot. Whilst showing real-life examples from Major Championships and PGA TOUR events he elaborates on wind, temperature, lies of the golf ball incl. flyer lies in the rough and ball contact. Marty also talks about clubhead speed and ball-speed and how you can maximise those with club-fitting.

Erik Anders Lang is a documentary filmmaker. He has worked as protégé of Dave Chapelle. He has produced documentaries and behind the scenes content for various major companies, and now produces content for Random Golf Films and the PGA TOUR. His work has him travel over 130000 miles per year and he joins us to share anecdotes and tales from his sojourns, lessons he has learned, outlandish experiences enjoyed and wisdom accumulated. He speaks about golf, mindfulness, the Law of Intentions and purpose-driven focus.

Carolina Romero is a former NCAA College golfer (Univ. of South Florida) who is now a Fitness Trainer (Fit Golfer Girl). She is a Certified Personal Trainer with the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM as and also a TPI Certified Golf Fitness Specialist. Carolina joins "On the Mark" to help you to a powerful and pain-free golf swing. She highlights the glutes as the most powerful muscle in the swing and shares exercises to help you activate and strengthen them. She also talks about back and spinal health and shares exercises to reduce back pain and build a powerful and repeating pivot.

John Glenn is a British PGA Professional and a former Lead Golf Instructor at The Grove. He is now involved with Colour Path Golf. John joins us to introduce Colour Path Golf's approach to game improvement, concept understanding and instruction and how you can use it to improve your golf. Colour Path Golf can be used by instructors and learners and it touches every facet of the game from the long game through the short game. John describes the colors, their intrinsic meaning, how they are used to direct focus, intent and learning. He also illustrates exercises and drills to improve swing path, clubface alignment, sequencing, timing and tempo.

Dr. Patrick Cohn is a respected Sports Psychologist and the founder/president of Peak Performance Sports. Thanks to his research and work with high level athletes, sports psychology experts consider him to be the leading authority on pre-performance and pre-shot routines. Dr. Cohn joins us to discuss why golfers sometimes choke and he shares ways to navigate the challenges of playing under pressure. He addresses: Pre-round and pre-shot routines for success; the errors golfers make; perfectionism, reframing mistakes, and mental imagery including planning, programming and execution.

Lt. Col. Dan Rooney is an Air Force Fighter Pilot, a PGA Golf Professional, an Author and the Founder of "Folds of Honor". Dan joins "On the Mark" to talk about his life as a pilot and golf professional and some lessons he has learned along the way. He also dives into his new book, "Fly Into the Wind" and shares how you can harness faith and fearlessness on your ascent to greatness as a person and a golfer. Dan shows how you can navigate the path to fulfillment and the achievement of your goals by changing yourself for the better.

Adam Young is one of the leading minds in the game. The author of “The Practice Manual – The Ultimate Guide for Golfers” he is a truly holistic golf coach and He joins "On the Mark" for the second time to share his insights. The discussion pivots around the concept of Skill vs. Technique. He embellishes on the differences between the two areas of improvement and drills down on how to develop skills through drills. He also talks about methods like Reverse Engineering to improve technique and feel.

Mike Granato and Sean Webb are partners in "Athletic Motion Golf" (AMG). Together they have done tons of research and compiled 3D data on thousands of golfers, including PGA TOUR Professionals. AMG's mission is to identify the athletic principles PGA Tour players use to help make golf more enjoyable for regular golfers. They join us to highlight 10 moves that wreck golf swings incl.: Set-up errors, backswing errors, clubface orientation misunderstandings, and pivot, trail-arm and hip action mistakes.

Brady Riggs is a Golf Magazine Top 100 instructor and the Director of Instruction at The Golf Hale - Four Seasons Hualālai. He works with golfers of all stations in the game including PGA TOUR players and he joins us to share his insights into game improvement. In doing so he busts a few myths about golf and the golf swing. He addresses: Swing speed/timing vs "getting quick", Pausing at the top of the swing, Putting and distance control, Club selection around the greens, Perceptions of "good" with PGA TOUR comparisons, Bunker play, Shaping shots, and Squaring the face.

Tennessee-based golf professional, Sasha Catron, is a former Tour golfer who has pivoted to golf instruction. He works with golfers of all skill levels with a holistic approach to game improvement. Sasha joins "On the Mark" to share a few simple physical, mental and visual keys to help you improve your iron-play. He elaborates on: Self-talk and focus Visualization Weight distribution The low point of the swing Feeling the clubface and feet in transition, and Managing golf swing tilts, turns and bends.

Dr. Bob WInters is an internationally renowned sport psychologist; author and professional speaker with 45 years of golf knowledge via playing, coaching and scientific research into assisting players achieve peak performance. He also works at The David Leadbetter Golf Academies and joins "On the Mark" for a 2nd time. Bob dives into the concepts of Goals,Goal-setting and Expectation Management. He talks about Short, Medium and Long Term Goals; he also addresses Process, Performance and Outcome Goals.

Brendan Moynahan is the Director of Golf Operations at The Four Seasons Resort Hualalai. He has spent a life in golf in the Hawaiian Islands as player, teacher, and club professional. He has spent a number of seasons at Hualalai and has been an integral part of the Mitsubishi Electric Championships. He joins our podcast to share lessons and experiences from his involvement with the event. He highlights: Flighted Shots and Reading Lies by Tom Watson and the Mental Game by Bernhard Langer among others.

Stuart Clayton is the Head of Training and Certification at The David Leadbetter Golf Academies. A highly decorated and respected teacher, Stuart elaborates on a number of elements that will help you to realize your potential. He talks to players and coaches as he addresses: Your "fingerprint" of your golf swing, the "puzzle pieces" in the timing and construction of the golf swing, swing methods and instruction, self-awareness, communication between player and coach and evolving plans to goal achievement.

Jonathan Karush is a lifelong, and accomplished, golfer who has taken hundreds of hours of lessons from all the leading golf instructors in the game. Vastly experienced and insightful he is uniquely qualified to comment on instruction and how to get the most out of your lessons, your work and your efforts. After figuring out the best way to consume golf information he has improved his handicap from 7 to 1 and he shares insights on: Shallowing the club, Rotation, Golf-swing Method, Turning Knowledge into Performance, Playing Golf vs Golf-swing, Club-head Speed vs Control, Finding the Right Teacher, What Constitutes a Great Lesson, and Data Recording.

December 24, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #24 includes two drills to help you understand proper, efficient and powerful rotation of the body in the backswing and the downswing. Power up your pivot with the drill you can do anywhere.

December 24, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #23 is a tip (and an image) from Gary Player (one of the finest bunker players of all time) on how to really excel out of the greenside bunkers.

December 24, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #22 shares an insight from the great Bobby Jones that is guaranteed to help you sharpen your skills and improve your play when out on the golf course.

December 24, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #21 shares a tip and a drill to help you understand, feel and execute the correct trail-arm folding so that you can consistently make wide, coiled and powerful backswings.

December 20, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #20 addresses two important matchups in successful golf swings - matchups between the body rotation, trail elbow action and clubface alignment for open-and-closed face golf swings.

December 19, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #19 is a tip improve your greenside flop shots and pitch shots inside the 50 yard range. Learn how to shape your swing, feel the club-head and improve touch, distance and trajectory control.

December 18, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #18 is a tip to help you to relax under pressure, thereby alleviating tension and freeing up your golf swing. The tip also includes a funny, tasty drill that will make you aware of tension in your body.

December 17, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #17 is a course management tip to help you maximize your good days and minimize your bad days. Decision-making and strategy insights include a tip for tee-shots, approach-shots and shots on and around the greens.

Andy Lerch from SALTED Smart Insoles joins our podcast to introduce you to SALTED and how gaining real-time feedback on your Weight, Center of Mass and Pressure Shifts can be as easy as a pair of insoles in your golf shoes. Andy highlights the insoles, how to use them, the feedback and the data they provide and he also shares a Discount Code for you to use (limited time only). The insoles allow you to specify a target swing goal, get body balance feedback, couple the data analysis with video for comparison analysis.

December 16, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #16 is a poem that acts as a guide to selecting the correct shot when around the greens. Make more recoveries and saves for par with this little ditty.

December 15, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #15 is an insight that includes three strategies to break those ceilings in golf. Download and learn simple strategies that will alter your mindset and give you a plan to break either 90, 80, or 70.

December 14, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #14 is a tip and an image that will help you make a full, completely loaded, and wide backswing for more powerful golf shots.

PGA Professional Daniel Gray has been teaching golf since '01 and is an Elite Instructor at the Sea Island Golf Performance Center in Georgia. He also works with PGA TOUR pro's and he joins us to bring PGA TOUR insights on the Short Game. Daniel discusses commitment, adrenaline and blood pressure control through better breathing to reduce pressure and hole Short Putts. He talks green-reading for improved Lag Putting. Creativity and Spin Control in Chipping, Swing Radius control for better Pitching contact and distance control, and how to hit quality Lob Shots and Bunker Shots.

December 13, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #13 is a tip by the great Jackie Burke, a tip that will put a jolt of power into your shots and also eliminate a miss to the weak side.

December 12, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #12 is a tip that will enable you to flight the golf ball on the appropriate trajectory for improved distance control. Hit the ball high, or low, with this simple follow-through thought.

December 11, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #11 is a tip (that Mark Immelman learned) from Ernie Els - a tip that the "Big Easy" uses to keep good tempo and rhythm in his golf swing. Improve your tempo and swing like Ernie; it's as easy as 1,2,3.

December 10, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #10 is a tip (with a drill included) that is guaranteed to improve your bunker play. It addresses clubface alignment through the swing, angle of attack into the sand and speed of the golf club through contact.

December 9, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #9 is a tip about rotation and pivot and how the movement of your head can free it all up for added speed and power off the tee.

December 8, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #8 is a short poem (about your grip) that will have a big influence on your clubface control and your shot quality.

Hal Sutton is a 14-time winner on The PGA TOUR, a PGA Championship champion and a PLAYERS champion. He is also a former USA Team Ryder Cup Captain and a Payne Stewart Award Winner and he joins us to share anecdotes and lessons learned from his career on TOUR. Hal revisits lessons learned from Raymond Floyd, Byron Nelson and . He also takes us back to his epic duel in the final round of the 2000 PLAYERS Championship against Tiger Woods, incl. the "Be the Right Club Today" approach shot to the final hole.

December 7, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #7 is a tip to improve contact on greenside chip and pitch shots. By a simple change in shaft pitch at address you can alter trajectory and shot quality.

December 6, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #6 is a tip and a drill to help you create a stable foundation for a smooth, repeating and reliable putting stroke.

December 5, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #5 is a tip that Bubba Watson uses to make a powerful and fully loaded backswing. It is guaranteed to make you complete a full pivot and maximize your power.

December 4, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #4 is a short and easy to apply insight that will ensure focus, freshness and productive work in your practice sessions.

December 3, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #3 is a simple aim and alignment hack (which you can use on the golf course) that is guaranteed to get you appropriately aligned for the desired shot.

December 2, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #2 is a nugget, using adjustments in grip pressure, that will help you to eliminate one side of the target - a key to avoiding big numbers.

December 1, 2020. "On the Mark" podcast host, and noted golf instructor, Mark Immelman shares a daily tip to help you improve your golf and lower your golf scores. The tips are simple, easy to understand, and most importantly easy to apply. Advent Tip #1 is a nugget that will help you improve your club and ball contact, especially out of awkward lies such as fairway bunkers, the rough and hardpans.

Karen Palacios-Jansen (LPGA Professional and NASM Certified Personal Trainer) has developed a system of working out to help golfers of all levels improve their golf swings and fitness at the same time. She joins "On the Mark" to elaborate on "CardioGolf" and some share some exercises and drills that will not only help your golf swing but also improve your quality of life. Karen addresses flexibility and mobility, preventing injury and targeted training. She also discusses the grip and grip pressure for increased clubhead speed, distance off the tee, and golf-ball compression for quality iron-play and distance control.

Mark Broadie is the Carson Family Professor of Business at Columbia Business School. He is a member of the USGA Handicap Research Team and the inventor of the Strokes Gained Data Analytics system used on The PGA TOUR. Broadie is also a writer and published author and he joins "On the Mark" to share Strokes Gained insights and tips on how you can lower your scores. Broadie delves into improved play off the tee by understanding shot patterns, shot selection in the iron game for better distance control, greenside proficiency and focus and putting from distance and from short range.