Golf Digest started a big buzz in their June 2007 with the first major coverage of the “Stack and Tilt”, somewhat of a revolution in the golf swing (with some concepts that aren’t all that new). Mike Bennett and Andy Plummer, the architects of the swing, had already been making a name for themselves on tour with several pros from the PGA and Nationwide tours in their stable. After the first article, the Stack and Tilt spread like wildfire. I covered it myself in three separate posts (click the Stack and Tilt category in the sidebar to read them) and the internet was filled to the brim with both success stories and criticisms. One of the problems for players has been the lack of information about the swing, and a lack of teachers and schools teaching it. Players have been forced to learn for themselves and share with each other. Along those lines, with so little information and so few professionals backing it, criticisms were left to be bounced around the web, sparking debate among

Stack and Tilt seems to be the hot golf concept right now. Since my original two articles, I continue to get a lot of traffic looking for information about Stack and Tilt. I’d like to look at it a little closer. I’m not going to give a tutorial on the technique. I can’t do better than the original article at Golf Digest. What’s more interesting to me is the reaction I’ve gotten from people in person as well as what I’ve been reading all over the web. Many people seem to have a misconception about what’s going on in the swing. Some people have looked at the photo sequence of Aaron Baddeley in Golf Digest and have trouble seeing the real difference between the Stack and Tilt and the typical modern swing. Some people claim that Baddely isn’t actually doing anything different except taking a shorter back swing. So what I wanted to do is grab a video of Tiger Woods and a video of a Stack and Tilter and compare them. The Stack and

On Tuesday, I brought up the “Stack and Tilt”, a revolution in the basic golf swing. As promised, here’s a follow-up. Yesterday evening I got out to the range and decided I was going to spend almost all my time evaluating the Stack and Tilt golf swing. Click the link above to my original post where you can get the whole story on the radical swing. Basically, since transferring weight to the right side then back left is considered inefficient by the developers of the technique, the idea is to keep the spine vertical over the ball with the weight more on the left throughout the swing. I read the Golf Digest article on the Stack and Tilt several times to absorb all the detail. When I got to the range, it took me maybe 10-20 balls before I really started to get the feeling of the new swing. At that point, I did start to notice a high draw, and nice, solid contact on my irons. It felt strange at first (naturally), but by