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Book Review: The Stack and Tilt Swing

November 1, 2010 By 3 Comments
The Definitive Guide to the Swing that is Remaking Golf

The Stack and Tilt Swing, by Michael Bennett and Andy Plummer, with Peter Morrice, is a fairly late-comer to the Stack and Tilt party.  Though Plummer and Bennett were becoming notable in Tour circles by 2005 or so, their Stack and Tilt swing set the golf world on fire after a feature article in Golf Digest in mid-2007. Since then, there have been countless magazine articles, blog posts (you can check out my Stack and Tilt category if you don’t believe me), and even an instructional DVD set. There has been much debate about the swing and it has even been discussed during national golf broadcasts. I’m not sure why, but it took a couple of years for Plummer and Bennett to follow up the original Golf Digest feature and subsequent instructional DVD set with this book.  However, if you’re serious about the Stack and Tilt swing, or are even seriously considering giving it a try, then this book was probably worth the wait. It amazed me in 2007 how many weekend players adopted the

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Is the Stack and Tilt Losing Steam?

May 20, 2009 By 41 Comments

Since 2007, when Golf Digest first published its feature on the new-fangled swing, Stack and Tilt fever has swept the internet.  At the time, Aaron Baddeley was the poster boy for the swing on Tour.  Over time, stars like Mike Weir adopted the swing, as well. A couple of weeks back, I heard that Baddeley had given up on the swing and gone back to his old coach Dale Lynch.  Then, I was somewhat shocked to read that Mike Weir did the same, returning to coach Mike Wilson. Chris Henry at Eagle Par Birdie weighed in on the situation, making the point that pros change swings all the time and that this is really getting attention because the swing has been controversial since day one.  Both of these things are true, but I’m still surprised. Two things echoed through my mind as I read about Baddeley and Weir changing swings again. First, I did a post a while back that crunched the stats for both Baddeley and Weir and a few other Stack and Tilters

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Effectiveness of the Stack and Tilt Swing

January 15, 2009 By 26 Comments
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For a while now, I’ve been intrigued with the Stack and Tilt golf swing.  I read about it in 2007 in the first Golf Digest article.  I briefly tried it for myself.  I wrote about it a number of times.  I watched the instructional DVDs.  Since all that happened, I have read tons of comments from readers about their success with the swing.  I have received literally hundreds of comments and I think all but one were positive. What I want to know is, how effective is the swing?  Is it really better than a conventional swing or some of the other variations out there? From all that I’ve read about the swing, I know of a handful of tour pros that use the Stack and Tilt swing.  Some are featured in the ads for the DVDs.  Aaron Baddeley was featured in the Golf Digest article.  I read about Mike Weir adopting the swing. I decided that I would set out to do an analysis of statistics for that handful of pros to see if

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Review: Stack and Tilt Instructional DVD Set

November 10, 2008 By 6 Comments

It amazes me still that the Stack and Tilt swing has taken such a strong hold on the golfing world.  Really, though, it shouldn’t surprise me because the number of players I’ve heard from that have had great success with the swing is staggering. Starting with an article in Golf Digest, the swing swept through driving ranges and back yards like wildfire.  With such a limited resource for information, players were forced to resort to internet discussion to try and learn as much as possible about this strange new swing that was giving them great results. Then, prayers were answered when Stack and Tilt architects Mike Bennett and Andy Plummer created a 4-disc instructional video series.  Distributed by Medicus Golf, the DVD set covers everything you need to know about the Stack and Tilt swing, and much more. Disc Contents Disc one – Swing overview Disc two – Stack and Tilt in-depth Disc three – Analyzing your shot Disc four – Short Game For some more information about the contents of the DVD set, a

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Are G.A.S.P. Fundamentals Really Fundamental?

October 23, 2008 By 8 Comments

Of course, I’m referring to the widely accepted fundamentals of the golf swing:  Grip, Alignment, Stance, and Posture, or GASP for short. Most of us have probably heard that these are the fundamentals of the golf swing.  We’ve been taught that without a proper grip, alignment, stance, and posture, we can’t hope to be decent golfers.  The question is: what is proper? Recently, I watched the Stack and Tilt instructional DVDs created by Mike Plummer and Andy Bennett.  In one of the segments, they took exception to the fact that GASP is assumed to be fundamental to the golf swing.  Their arguments are kind of compelling. They point out the fact that if you look at the greatest golfers in history, they all vary among those swing attributes.  Grips vary everywhere from strong to weak.  Some players align themselves closed to the target and some open.  Some players have feet that are more open than the shoulders.  Others are opposite.  Some players stand more upright and some more bent over. In fact, you can probably

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