Based at The Country Club of Birmingham (Alabama), Eric Eshleman is one of the foremost teachers in golf. He has been a PGA (Professional Golf Association of America) member since 1997 and his reputation and success as an instructor earned him recognition as the 2019 Golf Professional of the Year.

He joins #OntheMark to share insights from his work with elite players at the NCAA Division I College level, as well as the lifelong lessons he taught PGA TOUR winner, Davis Thompson - lessons that helped guide Thompson to his first victory on the PGA TOUR in the 2024 John Deere Classic.

Eshleman stresses performance over perfection in the quest for lower scores. As he teaches about this approach he discusses various elements involved in playing golf well:

• Removing Emotion from Results
• Disregarding Rankings in the Quest for Improvement
• Switching on your "Awareness Switch" as the Pressure Heightens
• Getting off to Solid Starts
• Pre-Shot Routines with an Emphasis on Feel
• Shaping Your Swing to the Shot Requirements
• Acute Awareness of Personal Tendencies
• Fundamentals and their Importance, and
• The Beauty of Simplicity

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Based in San Diego, California Adam Porzak runs Porzak Golf - an elite instructional team that works with golfers of all skill levels. Adam is a former Tour Professional who now teaches many elite golfers at the highest level. A former Junior World Championship Runner-up, Adam knows about golf performance under pressure, and he brings his "old-school' approach to the #OntheMark podcast.

Adam delves into a number of important elements involved in the creation of a reliable golfswing. As he talks about: (a) The Importance of Set-up and Posture, (b) Understanding "Connection," (c) How Connection facilitates the Ability to Rotate, and (d) Using the Least Amount of Manipulation through Impact, Adam addresses a number of relevant talking points:

1. Connection and Leverage around "Fixed Points"
2. Turning vs. Shifting
3. Golf played "Underneath' You
4. Constant and Consistent Rotation and Sequencing
5. Swinging the Handle and Arm-speed
6. Shallowing the Shaft, correctly
7. 2 Set-ups in the Swing
8. Hand-path and Swing Plane
9. Ball Position and its importance, and a
10. Helpful Swing Improvement Drill called the "3 Dot Alignment Drill"

Improve your golfswing with Adam's help and insight. Download and listen, and then search and subsribe to Mark Immelman on YouTube to watch Adam's demonstrations.

Jake Ledbetter is a former Professional Tournament golfer who has turned to Golf Instruction. The rising star has learned under, and worked for some of the best, including George Gankas, Dana Dahlquist and Mike Schy and now he is an instructor at The Mike Schy Performance Institute.

Ledbetter joins the #OntheMark podcast to help you develop a more consistent golf-swing by improving your body pivot and making it the governor and driver of the swing.

He talks about concepts like:

• Turning and Tilting with proper Pressure Shifts
• A Controlled Pivot instead of a Maximum Pivot
• Lead Hip Movement and Clearance

He shares drills from Tiger Woods, George Gankas and Mike Schy to help you improve your pivot, while also addressing game improvement concepts like:

• The Chicken and Egg Effect in the golf-swing - figuring out what style and approach is best for you
• Hearing the Correct Thing instead of Hearing Everything
• Golf-swing Low Point Control, and
• Blending a Technique-focus and a Target-focus in Practice.

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