The IMAGEN Golf Podcast

Derailing the Bogey Train: What to Do After a Bad Shot | FORE Minute Friday Ever hit a chunked iron or snap-hooked a drive and felt your entire round immediately unravel? You aren't alone. In this week's FORE Minute Friday on the Imagen Golf Podcast, Daniel Guest dives deep into the golf mental game to help you recover from bad golf shots and save your scorecard. Golf is a game of misses, and the...

Is your practice bucket actually making you worse? In this episode of the IMAGEN Golf Podcast , Daniel Guest sits down with Brixton Albert , the visionary Founder and CEO of Performance Golf . Brixton has turned the world of golf instruction on its head, moving away from "band-aid" tips and building a digital empire that provides over 300,000 golfers with a structured, professional roadmap to lowe...

Is a simple Sharpie line the ultimate cheat code for dropping strokes, or is it secretly sabotaging your scorecard? In this special, extended 10-minute edition of FORE Minute Friday, we are breaking our own rules to dive deep into one of the most hotly debated and scientifically analyzed topics in amateur golf. On paper, drawing a line on your golf ball makes perfect mathematical sense. But when y...

This week, the greatest players in the world descend on Pennsylvania for the 2026 PGA Championship at the legendary Aronimink Golf Club. But if you’re watching the broadcast just to admire 340-yard drives and violent swing speeds, you are actively sabotaging your own game! Top 100 Coach and PXG Staff Pro Daniel Guest breaks down exactly what amateur golfers should be watching this weekend to guara...

What is up, Imagen Golfers! In this FORE Friday edition of The Imagen Golf Podcast, host Daniel Guest tackles the number one reason your perfect swings are ending up in the bunker: you’re playing golf in a vacuum. If you are just shooting the pin, grabbing a club based on raw yardage, and swinging away, you are leaving strokes out on the course. To lower your scores and play smarter, you have to s...

Every day at Imagen Golf, we focus on controlling the controllables in your mind. But what if the biggest variable in your game is the one piece of equipment you use on every single shot? In this episode, host Daniel Guest sits down with Richard and Booth Platt, the visionary founders of Rimac Golf. We move past the putter face and tackle a fundamental engineering problem in the sport: mass-produc...

Tired of wrestling with a complicated golf swing that hurts your back and ruins your scorecard? It’s time to stop grinding on the wrong things and simplify your game. In this episode of the IMAGEN Golf Podcast, Top 100 Coach Daniel Guest sits down with Todd Graves, co-founder of Graves Golf and the world’s leading authority on the Single Plane Swing. Known as "Little Moe," Todd breaks down the gen...

Are you tired of fumbling with your rangefinder, staring at your phone, and breaking your rhythm just to figure out your next shot? The future of golf tech has arrived, and it’s worn right on your face. In this episode of the Imagen Golf Podcast, head pro Daniel Guest sits down with George Wang, Founder and CEO of Birdie Lens AR Golf Glasses. They dive deep into how Augmented Reality (AR) is compl...

Are you obsessed with your driver distance but totally guessing your yardages from 115 yards out? Welcome to the "dead zone." This week on an all-new F-O-R-E Minute Friday episode of The IMAGEN Golf Podcast, Top 100 Coach and PXG Staff Pro Daniel Guest tackles the most overlooked, "un-sexy" part of game improvement: Club Gapping. If you have a 20-yard gap between your wedges, or your 5-iron and 4-...

In this Four Minute Friday mini-episode, host Daniel Guest reveals a simple, zero-swing-change secret to instantly improving your consistency, tightening your dispersion, and stopping the ball faster on the greens. The culprit behind your lost yardage and unexpected fliers might just be sitting in the trunk of your car right now. We dive into the statistical reality of how playing with dirty golf...

Are you putting in hours at the range but still not seeing your handicap drop? You’re not alone. This week on The IMAGEN Golf Podcast , Daniel Guest (Top 100 Coach, PXG Staff Pro) reveals why 90% of golfers are wasting their practice time by grinding on the wrong things. Daniel breaks down three real-world examples from students who recently visited the IMAGEN Golf Performance Center. We explore w...

In this FORE Friday mini-episode, host Daniel Guest tackles one of the most common—and costly—illusions in amateur golf: treating the golf ball as the finish line. We spend so much time perfecting our takeaway and impact position that we often forget what happens after contact. Daniel breaks down why your swing absolutely does not stop once the ball leaves the clubface and how stopping your rotati...

Are you a "range hero" but a "course zero"? Do your practice swings look like a Tour pro's, but the second you step up to an actual golf ball, your mechanics completely fall apart? You aren't alone. You might just be "ball bound." In this week’s F-O-R-E Minute Friday , Daniel Guest reveals why the golf ball is actually your biggest enemy when you're trying to make real, lasting changes to your swi...

Want to lower your handicap without changing a single thing about your swing? It sounds like magic, but it’s actually just math. In this episode of the IMAGEN Golf Podcast, Top 100 Coach Daniel Guest sits down with Scott Fawcett—former touring pro and the mastermind behind the revolutionary DECADE Golf course management system. Scott breaks down how he used PGA Tour data to create a foolproof, sta...

Are you making the game of golf harder than it needs to be? If you are teeing up the wrong golf ball based on bad advice, you are costing yourself strokes before you even put a peg in the ground. In this episode of The IMAGEN Golf Podcast, Top 100 Coach Daniel Guest tackles the avalanche of bad equipment information spreading around the golf world. We are putting the five biggest golf ball myths t...

"Golf doesn't have to be so hard!" – but it usually feels that way when you’re standing over a four-footer for par. In this episode, host Daniel Guest sits down with a true titan of the industry, Mike Jordan , CEO of Genius Golf Ball . With over 30 years of experience and 40+ patents at brands like Titleist and TaylorMade, Mike has shifted his focus from the "long game" to the "brainy game." We di...

Today we’re tackling the single biggest scorecard killer in amateur golf: the short miss. Let’s be honest—most of us are optimists. We see a pin at 150 yards, we remember that one time we flushed an 8-iron 150 yards back in 2022, and we pull that club. The result? We hit it "okay," it lands short, rolls into the bunker, or dies in the thick stuff. Here is the secret to instant scoring improvement:...

It is arguably the greatest comeback story in the history of professional golf. In this emotional and high-energy episode of the Imagen Golf Podcast , host Daniel Guest breaks down the breaking news out of Australia: Anthony Kim has won LIV Golf Adelaide , securing his first professional victory in nearly 16 years. We dive deep into the journey of "AK"—from the swaggering, belt-buckle-wearing phen...

"Never up, never in." It’s the most overused cliché in golf, usually chirped by a playing partner right after you leave a 20-footer just inches short. But what if we told you that cliché is actually hurting your game? In this edition of FORE Minute Friday , we dig into the surprising stats behind putting speed. We debunk the aggressive "charge the cup" mentality and introduce the 20% Rule —the sta...

Can you imagine playing 1.6 rounds of golf every single day for an entire year? On this episode of the Imagen Golf Podcast, Daniel Guest sits down with golf photographer and world record holder Patrick Koenig . In 2023, Patrick embarked on the RGV Tour 2.0 with a singular mission: to break the world record for the most 18-hole golf courses played in a single year. He didn't just break the record—h...

Are you addicted to the range? Do you stripe it in practice swings but lose it the second a ball is in front of you? In this edition of Fore Minute Friday , Daniel Guest challenges the number one obsession in golf: hitting the ball. We dive into why being "ball bound" is actually destroying your ability to make swing changes and why the secret to your next breakthrough might just be in your living...

Are you tired of weak slices, fat shots, or inconsistent contact? The difference between a frustrated amateur and a flushed iron shot often comes down to a single millisecond: Impact. In this episode of The Imagen Golf Podcast , Top 100 Coach Daniel Guest dives deep into the physics of compression. We explore why the "flat lead wrist" is the non-negotiable secret to consistent ball striking and ho...

Are you a golfer, or are you an athlete playing golf? There is a huge difference, and it’s showing up on your scorecard. In this edition of FORE Minute Friday , Daniel Guest breaks down a core principle from Dr. Joe LaCaze (creator of ROTEXMotion): the importance of athleticism over static positions. If you are freezing over the ball with 15 different swing thoughts, you are killing your power and...

Are you sabotaging your golf game before you even take the club back? In this edition of FORE Minute Friday , we tackle the single most common equipment mistake among amateur golfers: playing with too little loft. If you aren't swinging like a Tour pro, you shouldn't be playing their equipment specs. We break down the physics of why "loft is your friend" and how adding degrees to your driver, wood...

Are you spending $600 on a new driver to gain 5 yards, but ignoring the one piece of equipment you use on every single hole? In this episode of the Imagen Golf Podcast , Daniel sits down with Mark Chantal , the founder of Pick Up Tee , to discuss the hidden yardage sitting right in your pocket. Mark explains the surprising physics of friction at the tee box and how standard wooden pegs might be ro...