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

2024/10/18
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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.