Smylie Kaufman is a golf professional and former winner on the PGA TOUR and the Korn Ferry Tour. After battling injury and a dip in form he has stepped away from competitive golf to become an on-course announcer and a golf analyst for NBC Sports and Golf Channel.

Now one of the leading voices in golf, he joins #OntheMark to talk about his life in golf - from his days as a junior through to his rise up the PGA TOUR ranks to the Winner's Circle.

As he takes us through his life in golf, Smylie shares many insights and lessons that are sure to help you understand the nature of golf, and get the most out of your game.

Among other topics, he specifically addresses:

• Having a plan for improvement
• Commitment to the task and consistency of effort
• Building confidence
• Decision-making for the future in comparison to a short-term outlook
• Being true to your Golf DNA
• Expectation management
• Mindset and mental strength
• Dealing with criticism and social media
• Understanding yourself and your tendencies
• Breaking out of a bad cycle
• The psychology of golf goals
• Patience and developing that attitude and skill, and
• Temper and emotion and how to channel them for success.

As Smylie weaves a fun and interesting story of his career and the lessons he has learned along the way, he references PGA TOUR stars like Jordan Spieth, Justin Thomas, Rickie Fowler, and Rory McIlroy. He also talks about things that he watched Bryson DeChambeau do well en route to his US Open victory at Pinehurst #2.

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Andrew Reynolds is a Cognitive Performance Coach based in England. He is sought out by leading golf professionals and club golfers alike for his research and experience based insights on how to perform under pressure.

Reynolds blends insights learned from his degrees in Psychology and Sports Psychology with elements from Neuroscience and Skill Acquisition to develop his philosophies, drills and exercises.

He joins #OntheMark to share some of those insights incl:

• Why performance sometimes diminishes under pressure
• Rewiring neural pathways for consistent mental performance
• The mindset to breaking barriers
• The habit of embracing nerves
• Using routines to dial mental focus, and
• How to make your practice translate to the golf course.

He also shares 5 ways to lower scores by using certain Strokes Gained metrics.

Andrew's insights and lessons are guaranteed to help you cut out the noise, focus the mind and allow your best self to show up when the pressure is heightened. Download and share, and go to YouTube to watch Andrew and Mark's conversation. Search and subscribe to Mark Immelman.

Ryan Brehm is a PGA TOUR and Korn Ferry Tour winner. A native Michigander he parlayed a successful career as a player, and an Assistant Coach, into a long-time career on the PGA TOUR.

He joins Mark Immelman on the #OntheMark podcast to discuss his career in the game, and share lessons he learned along the way. Among many game improvement topics, he elaborates on:

• Navigating the mental and physical challenges of the game
• Success by way of loving the process over the results
• Turning off the "noise" in the mind
• Willingly changing attitudes for the better
• Allowing yourself to free up to perform
• Dealing with failure
• "Feel vs Real" and drills to help fortify appropriate feels
• Using intuition and instinct for better play
• Accuracy over power off the tee for better scores, and
• Making more putts by focussing on stroke timing and cadence.

Improve your mind, your attitude and your game with Ryan's PGA TOUR proven insights.

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