5 At-Home Drills to Improve Your Golf with Carolin Pinegger

About this episode

Carolin Pinegger shares insights on mental training and at-home drills to improve golf performance.

In this episode of On The Mark , Mark Immelman welcomes Carolin Pinegger (Austrian national team alum, UCF golfer, former LPGA/Symetra player, and now coach + social media star). Carolin shares what it was like competing on Big Break: Myrtle Beach—five weeks isolated, long production days, constant cameras—and why that experience made competitive golf feel easy by comparison. From there, the episode becomes a masterclass on what really wrecks swings: Tension, driven by brain “traffic.” Carolin explains how to train your brain like a muscle, use breathing to shift from “red” (overstimulated) back to “green,” and build dependable systems that hold up under pressure. Then she delivers a set of at-home drills (no range required) to improve grip, sequencing, pressure shift, and putting start line—using everyday items like a hammer, mirror, towels, and books. In This Episode, You’ll Discover: What Big Break pressure is really like (cameras, no phones, 3 hours sleep) Why tension happens — and how the brain’s “traffic” affects your body The mindset truth: You don’t rise to standards — you fall to systems How to move from “red” to “green” using belly breathing, and Why at-home motion…

People in this episode

Host: Mark Immelman

Guest: Carolin Pinegger

Topics covered

• golf improvement
• at-home drills
• mental training
• swing mechanics
• tension management

Keywords

• golf drills
• mental training
• swing tension
• breathing techniques
• home practice

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: LPGA, Symetra

Books & works: Big Break: Myrtle Beach

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