On the Mark offers listeners best-in-class golf instruction plus insightful conversations with PGA TOUR players, coaches, caddies, sports psychologists, fitness trainers, and more.
Mark Immelman, golf broadcaster, acclaimed instructor, and former college coach, delivers top insights to improve your golf game. He interviews PGA Tour Players, swing coaches, caddies, fitness and mental coaches, equipment gurus, and more, giving listeners inside the ropes access to the very best minds in golf.
Putting improvement does not have to require hours of technical practice.
In this episode of On the Mark, Mark Immelman is joined by Matt Davis, the creator of Putter Cup, to discuss how golfers can develop better speed control, stronger commitment and greater confidence under pressure.
Matt explains why putting deserves more attention from recreational golfers and challenges the belief that becoming a good putter requires a major investment of time. With focused, intentional practice—even for just a few minutes each day—golfers can begin closing the performance gap much faster than they might expect.
The conversation also explores an often-overlooked part of putting: The human response to pressure. Reading the green, choosing a line and controlling speed all matter, but golfers must still execute when the putt counts. Matt designed the three-part Putter Cup system to simulate that pressure and make practice slightly more demanding than the real thing.
Mark and Matt examine why not every five-foot putt should be played the same way, the relationship between speed and line, and how golfers can stop getting trapped by mechanical thoughts over short putts. They also discuss the importance of identifying “shot number three,” letting the putter become the hero and practicing in a way that makes the golf course feel easier.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
• Why everyday golfers can putt at an elite level
• How better putting can quickly lower your scores
• Why pressure should be treated as a fourth element of putting
• The relationship between read, speed, line and commitment
• Why not every five-foot putt requires the same pace
• How challenging practice can make real holes appear more forgiving
• The difference between practicing a stroke and preparing to play
• How the Speed Bump trains pace and commitment
• How the Center Cup sharpens start line and entry point
• How the portable To-Go Cup creates a target almost anywhere
• Why thinking about mechanics can undermine short-putt performance
• How better putting reduces pressure on lag putts and chip shots
• What “firm in the back of the cup” should really mean
• When “never up, never in” is—and is not—good advice
• Why a few minutes of deliberate practice can produce meaningful results
You can also watch this podcast and see the PutterCups if search and subcribe to Mark Immelman on YouTube. Do so and make more putts.
The Second Cut is a golf podcast for fans who want more than the headlines.
Hosted by Greg DuCharme, The Second Cut takes a closer look at the biggest stories, players, tournaments, and trends in professional golf. Each episode combines strong opinions, research, player analysis, course insights, and a little bit of fun to make sense of what’s happening on the PGA TOUR and around the game.
From breaking down tournament courses and identifying the players who fit the blueprint to win, to analyzing the biggest stories in golf and looking at the numbers behind player performance, Greg brings a researched perspective without taking himself—or the game—too seriously.
If you love the PGA TOUR, enjoy digging deeper than the obvious story, and want golf analysis that gives you something to think about, The Second Cut is for you.
Multiple New episodes every week!
The Biltmore Championship Asheville is a BRAND NEW PGA TOUR event, and that creates a unique challenge for anyone trying to handicap the tournament.
In this Biltmore Championship preview, we break down everything we know about The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, the Jack Nicklaus-designed course that will host the inaugural event in Asheville, North Carolina. With limited course data available, we'll also look at how to make the best possible decisions when you're trying to handicap a course without a significant PGA TOUR history.
We'll dive into:
• What we know about The Cliffs at Walnut Cove
• Key characteristics of Jack Nicklaus-designed golf courses
• The course characteristics that could matter most this week
• Strategies for handicapping a brand-new PGA TOUR venue
• Why different types of players are choosing to play the FedExCup Fall
• What the Fall schedule means for different categories of players
• A look at the Biltmore Championship field
• Justin Thomas and what makes him particularly interesting this week
• Jackson Koivun, who will also be competing before his Presidents Cup debut
• The players and statistical profiles I'm watching as more information becomes available
The FedExCup Fall is a completely different animal from the regular PGA TOUR season, and understanding WHY players are playing these events can be just as important as evaluating their games.
This is also the inaugural Biltmore Championship Asheville, so there is no course history to lean on. That means we're going to have to get creative.
If you're looking for PGA TOUR course previews, golf betting analysis, DFS strategy, player analysis and researched opinions, you're in the right place.
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Mark Immelman is a familiar voice on PGA TOUR LIVE and PGA TOUR Radio. It was in that capacity that he became a social media phenom and was featured on ESPN’s SportsCenter, following an incident in which he was hit by an errant golf shot in the 2014 Farmers Insurance Open (watch here).
