Kelvin Kelley Golf Podcast

Episode 31: Dr. Anna Lembke

Dr. Lembke is the author of the book “Dopamine Nation” featured on the Andrew Huberman podcast and a professor at Stanford. We chat about her book and how dopamine works in the brain when pursuing a goal. With health and lifestyle playing such a role on our golf game she was a great person to chat with.
Dr. Lembke is a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. A clinician scholar, she has published more than a hundred peer-reviewed papers, book chapters, and commentaries. Dr. Lembke appeared in the Netflix documentary “The Social Dilemma” an unvarnished look at the impact of social media on our lives. 

https://www.annalembke.com/dopamine-nation
 
 

Episode 30: Stuart Morgan

Chief Practice Thinker and an Advanced member of the PGA of Great Britain and recognised by Golf Digest at one of the top international coaches.
Having started his full-time coaching career under the guidance of David Leadbetter, he became ever more interested in the science of how we learn, skill acquisition, motor control and how we practice.
Stuart has coached at all Majors in Golf, and at two Ryder cups. The work he does with professional golfers takes him all over the world.
His current work is to support Swiss Golf as their Performance Director for the professional team, to assist Robert Macintyre and Bernd Wiesberger with their Practice & Performance, whilst completing a Doctorate in Human Performance with the spotlight on Golf & Practice. In this conversation we discuss the art of developing, training and performing for optimal performance on the golf course. More information on Practice Thinkers and Stuart can be found in the link below.
https://www.practicethinkers.com/stuart-morgan
 
 

Episode 29: Brad Lamb

Founder of the “The Golf Institute” in Australia, Brad Lamb has developed his coaching knowledge from an extensive playing career and also working with some of the best coaches in the world.
Throughout the years, Brad was fortunate enough to work with some of Australia’s best coaches and players including Gary Edwin, Ross Herbert, Denis McDade and Dale Lynch.
Peter Senior, Rebecca Artis, Peter Lonard, Geoff Ogilvy, Aaron Baddeley, Brett Rumford and Scott Gardiner are just a small number of the players Brad has spent time with and was able to learn from.
Highlights of Brad’s playing career included a win in the 1996 NSW Amateur Championship, representing Australia at the 2000 Eisenhower Cup in Germany, a win in the 2000 Victorian Open Championship as an amateur, becoming the 2000 Australian Amateur Champion and playing in the 2008 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale.
In this conversation, we had a great chat about changing player’ patterns, simplifying the golf swing and making the golf swing more economical yet still dynamic at all levels. More information can be found on Brad in the link below.
https://thegolfinstitute.com.au
 
 

Episode 28: Kendal McWade

Kendal McWade is the founder of Instinctive Golf Coaching and “The Golf Hammer” training aid. He has committed the last 20 years of his life to understanding more about learning and how we can help players of all standards learn new skills and develop their games more naturally. He was convinced that a simple ball, stick and target game couldn’t be as difficult as we were making it, and he was determined to find a way of simplifying the coaching of the world’s most technical and over analyzed game. More on Kendal in the link below. 
https://instinctivegolfcoaching.co.uk/who-we-are/
 

Episode 27: Jim Waldron

Known as the “Yips Whisperer”, Jim Waldron is a nationally acclaimed golf teaching professional, mental game coach, author, and lecturer best known for his pioneering research on the mind/body connection approach to learning and teaching golf. His holistic approach to golf improvement blends swing and short game mechanics, mental focus skills, physical fitness and emotional state control.
In this conversation Jim and I discuss the importance of the mind/body connection, how to facilitate a swing change and what he learned from Ben Hogan. More on Jim below.
 
https://balancepointgolf.com/index.php/about-jim-waldron

Episode 26: Dr. Mark Bull

Had a wonderful chat on how the body should move with Dr. Mark Bull. Mark holds a PhD in Sport, exercise and rehabilitation science from Birmingham University and is also a full member of the British PGA.
Mark developed and designed Bull3D and is a pioneer in the world of human movement and golf swing performance allowing him to provide innovative sport science and biomechanical services to golf.
Mark’s main areas of interest and continued research are why players move and swing the way they do and what influences the players swing and performance, including areas such as anatomy, physiology, neurological learning and how areas such as our experiences, perceptions, concepts and beliefs have a significant influence on how we swing and perform. Therefore, this allows for a fully embracing approach to player development. More information on Mark and the academy can be found at: 
https://bull3d.net
 
 

Episode 25: Iain Highfield

A great conversation with performance coach Iain Highfield. Iain has over 10 years of expertise educating and inspiring golfers to create psychological habits of excellence through his mental conditioning and effective practice programs. In the conversation we discuss the best ways to train a new movement and the best parts of his book. More information can be found on Iain on the link below.
https://www.kohrgolf.com/sessions/iain-highfield/

Episode 24: Gavin Coles

Gavin Coles is an Australian professional golfer. Gavin is a five-time winner on the Nationwide Tour/Korn Ferry Tour. He was a member of the Nationwide Tour in 2002, 2004 and 2006 and the PGA Tour in 2003, 2005 and 2007. We chat about his upbringing in the the game, battling adversity, the evolution of his golf swing and his current teaching philosophies. More information on Gavin can be found below. 

https://gavincoles.com      

Episode 23: James Sieckmann

James Sieckmann is a short game and putting guru that works with several PGA Tour and LIV players. James and I talk about certain short game shots and what he sees in good putting strokes. We also talk some simple putting drills that are great for practice. More on James below.
 
https://jsegolfacademy.com
www.kelleygolf.com
 

Episode 22: Nick Price

A great conversation with three-time major winner and former number one player in world Nick Price. Nick was winner of the ‘92 PGA Championship, ‘94 Open, and ‘94 PGA Championship. We discuss the evolution of his golf swing and the process of making swing changes. Nick also talks about never losing awareness to the target on the golf course. 
https://www.nickprice.com
 
www.kelleygolf.com