Dylan Naidoo is a South African Professional golfer and the winner of the 2025 South African Open at The Durban Country Club.

A former NCAA College golfer at the University of Arkansas, Dylan plays on The DP World Tour and the South African Sunshine Tour. He joins #OntheMark to share lessons learned from his life in golf culminating with the career highlight of winning his National Open Championship.

Dylan and Mark Immelman revist the 2025 SA Open victory and Dylan takes you inside the ropes, and inside his emotions as he elaborates on the tournament, his play, the emotions and the nerves he felt, and how he navigated the challenges en route to the win.

He also talks about his approach to game improvement and technique and shares insights on various topics including:

• Playing "carefree golf"
• A positive mindset during the struggles
• Learning from career lows
• "Ball-flight" golf instruction
• Making small game tweaks in contrast to big overhauls for improvement
• How he hits and shapes shots
• Having a "go-to shot" under pressure
• The value of being a student of the short game
• Using statistics for success, and
• Mental clarity on and off the course.

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More than 500 thousand Coaches and Athletes, in over 150 Countries use Onform to record, analyze, and share videos. Over 100 Professional Sporting Organizations rely on Onform to optimize performance. Over 45 million videos recorded by coaches and athletes have been recorded to the Onform Cloud. In short, Onform is changing the golf instruction industry.

At its core, Onform is a video analysis & coaching app designed to accelerate skill development for coaches and athletes across 150+ sports. Their goal is to simplify the coaching process through innovative technology by helping teams and individuals achieve their full potential. Nate Hairgrove and Gear Fisher, the co-founder of Onform, join the #OntheMark Podcast to introduce this all-encompassing coaching and teaching solution.

They highlight the myriad of App features, incl.:

• The NEW 3D Visualization to observe swing characteristics like slide and sway with 3D analysis tools
• The NEW 4-Way Video Player to view up to 4 angles at oncein including the 3D model for a complete view
• The NEW Centralized Admin Tools to bulk invite students, manage staff, and organize multi-location academies
• The NEW Studio Solution to create a portable, wireless studio with multi-cam and a new centralized control iPad
• The NEW Mirror Cam that can turn an iPad at your feet into a live down-the-line feed for instant alignment and posture feedback
• The Launch Monitor Integrations in order to connect your Full Swing KIT or Garmin R10 to get ball & club data on every swing
• The Record & Capture Feature to capture 1080p HD video @ up to 240fps for detailed analysis with 5 recording modes
• Automatic Cloud Backup - Every video is automatically backed up to our cloud to save your device storage, and
• The Multi-Angle Capture Featire to record from multiple angles for comprehensive analysis.

Onform will transform your abilities as a coach and/or player to quickly record and analyze your technique. It will improve your diagnostic abilities and lead to quicker and more effective game improvement adjustments.

Watch how the Onform App worksm, and get a working demonstration by searching for and subscribing to Mark Immelm on YouTube

Mark Immelman is a CBS Sports and a PGA TOUR Live announcer. He is also a decorated golf instructor and the 2009 NCAA Div II Coach of the Year.

The host of the #OntheMark Podcast, Mark is annually a part of the Amen Corner broadcast of The Masters and he revisits The Masters and Rory McIlroy's historic win.

He also highlights lessons from the tournament and various players that will help you improve your mental and your physical golf game:

• Resilience and Handling Adversity by Rory McIlroy
• Focussed and Purpose-driven Practice with Scottie Scheffler and Bryson DeChambeau
• Course Management and Shot Selection with Rory and Scottie
• Courage and bravado by Justin Rose, Max Homa and Rory, and
• Staying True to Your Dreams and Never Giving Up.

Mark educates and motivates with this Masters Review podcast - It is sure to inspire you as it guides you to better decisions and more productive practice.

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Will Stubbs (England) is the Managing Director of Zen Golf. He holds a BSc in Sports Development with Coaching and an MSc in Sports and Execise Science. His Masters thesis research identified how golf coaching paradigms must change from technique-driven practice to adhere to the dynamic nature where the performer is interacting with the ever-changing environment. This makes him one of the foremost minds in Skill Acquisition coaching

Based in England and established over 20 years ago, Zen is more than a ‘moving floor’. Their unique Adaptive Terrain Technology (ATT) instantly transforms the golf landscape and enjoyment of the game. Zen Golf gives you the world’s most true-to-life, most immersive indoor golf experience by recreating the slopes you find on a real golf course. Gradients of all kinds, on every shot and every putt, on the Zen Tour performance playing surfaces.

• How Technique changes given Undulation and Slope changes
• How Biomechanics change off varying Slopes
• How Practice should include work off Uneven lies
• The Skill of "reading" the game and the environment and making the requisite technique adjustments necessary for success
• Physical skill Acquistion vs Mental Skill Acquisition
• Building Confidence and Competence at the same time
• Using Uneven Lies to make Golf-swing Adjustments
• Using Zen Green Stages to Improve Green-reading
• Recreating Environments to Improve On-course Performance
• How to Create a completely Representative Learning Environment incl.: Gapping Clubs and Figuring Distances off Uneven Lies. Putting on Slopes. Learning Skills over Technique. Solving Environmental Challenges. Learning the Skill of Adaptability.

Will also descibes the types of Zen Green Stages and gives a green-reading lesson lesson on a Zen Putting Green. To watch this and see Will give a demonstration search and subscribe to Mark Immelman on YouTube.

Evan Singer is the founder and co-host of the #1 Mental Game Podcast - The Par Train Golf Podcast. He is also a a Mental Coach and has helped companies, like Uber, manage stress. Singer has also coached over 1 million golfers globally by making the mental game more simple and fun.

He joins #OntheMark to share 2 mental lessons he has learned the hard way, and 5 lessons from leading mental coaches incl.: Dr. Bob Rotella, Rick Sessinghaus, Dr. Joe Parent, Lynn Marriott and Pia Nilsson, and Dr. Bhrett McCabe.

Learn about:

1. Finding Total Golfswing Freedom
2. The Language of Self-Talk
3. Visualization and External Focus over Internal Focus
4. Swing Feels vs. Swing Positions
5. Playing Well with Your "C-Game"

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

Joe Park is a PGA Golf Professional, an author and a Master Golf Instructor. Based in Scottsdale, AZ, Joe has been teaching golf for over 30 years and developed his methodology and philosophy by way of research, teaching golfers of all skill levels, lessons from Mike Bender, and insights from Homer Kelley and the MORAD System.

Joe joins #OntheMark to share his philosophy on the golf-swing and illustrate how you can improve your overall swing action by respecting and applying five fundamentals:

1. Grip - What is the proper grip and how does it function to control the clubface.
2. Stance and Posture - How to set up correctly, what to look for, and a drill to nail your setup every time.
3. Takeaway and Backswing - The three types of backswing shapes, how the arms and body operate in concert with each other, width, torque and the action of the trail arm, and a drill to get the backswing moving properly.
4. Transition and Downswing - Reconciling the "down and out path" of the downswing, speed ratios and sweetspot guarantees, and why golfers "come over the top."
5. Impact and the Follow-through - Clubface control and Ball-flight Laws, and finishing in balance.

This podcast is also available as a vodcast on YouTube. Search and subscribe to Mark Immelman to watch and see Joe illustrate a number of drills and concepts for developing your golfswing.

Biv Wadden is a PGA Professional, a former NCAA golfer at The University of Notre Dame, and one of the most researched golf instructors in the game.

Biv is well-versed in every facet of the game incl. the biomechanics of the golf swing, shot-shaping and course management, and an arsenal of wedge and sand-play methods. He is constantly researching and has evolved into one of the best minds in putting.

Wadden joins #OntheMark to share his "TOUR Level" putting mechanics and his research on how the ball performs on both synthetic and real grass surfaces.

As Biv takes us on a deep dive into the performance of the golf ball on different greens he elaborates on:

• Putting on Artificial vs. "Real" Greens and Elements to Bear in Mind
• Making Sense of Stimp Readings
• The 3 Phases on the Roll of the Ball and Why that is Important to Understand
• Green Reading, and
• Adjusting to Varying Speeds

If you struggle with reading greens, controlling speed, and putting poorly under pressure this podcast is sure to help you understand and simplify your approach to making more putts.

Biv also talks about TGL Golf and shows a number of graphs and illustrations on how a golf ball performs on different surfaces - he also shares a drill that will help you control your pace on the greens more effectively.

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Scott Fawcett is a professional golfer, coach, and the inventor and founder of the course management and stats system - DECADE.

Scott joins #OntheMark joins talk golf and game improvement. As he revisits his journey through qualification to The PGA TOUR Champions, Scott visits and elaborates on multiple game improvement and score improvement topics:

• Ranges of Scores and applying the concept to Realistic Expectations
• Pragmetism vs. Emotionality
• Being Golf-enlightened
• Productive Thought Loops
• The "Tiger" 5
• Good Driving and Play off the Tee
• Processes over Outcomes
• Watching for Statistical Trends for Productive Practice and Decision-making
• Waiting out "Runs" for Great Golf
• Understanding Strokes Gained Data and Using Information Productively
• Probability and "Pot Equity" in Course Management and Play, and
• Meditation and its value in Post-round analysis and Pre-round preparation.

This podcast is also available as a vodcast on YouTube.

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