On the Mark Golf Podcast - Fat Perez with Advice on How to "Have a Day" on the Golf Course

Fat Perez with Advice on How to "Have a Day" on the Golf Course

10/15/24 • 42 min

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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.

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.

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Dr. Paul Wood on How to Become a Wizard with a Wedge

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.

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

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.