![]() They studied actual golfers – pros and beginners and everyone in between – and paid attention to the things they were seeing. Mike Bennett and Andy Plummer cast aside everything that people have said a golf swing should be and looked at what a golf swings actually were. Rather, it’s a swing that came from careful study. That Ben Hogan’s swing resembles the Stack and Tilt swing emphasizes that S&T isn’t some new thing thought up in a lab. Like so many others, I own a tattered copy of Five Lessons and have pored through the information in it countless times. I’d previously mentioned to him that I was keen to swing like Ben Hogan. The first piece of that information came when my instructor pointed out that Ben Hogan was often used by Stack and Tilt instructors to demonstrate several of the pieces of the Stack and Tilt swing. The more instruction I got the more the information made sense to me, and the closer I got to “full conversion.” Any objections or disinterest I had regarding Stack and Tilt slowly dissolved away in the face of information and consideration. Throughout the summer, my instructor applied a few “pieces” of the Stack and Tilt pattern to my golf swing. ![]() Stack and tilt golf swing professional#He has been a professional since 1995, but this is his best season to date.I’ll plainly admit it (and have, a few times, in the forum): when Stack and Tilt first came out in Golf Digest in 2007 I said things like “I don’t know much about it, but it seems like they’re trying to sell it pretty hard and I’ll wait a little while to see if it’s still around in a few years before I really devote much thought to it.” I didn’t look into it, I didn’t seek understanding, and I kept tinkering away at my own “conventional” swing.Įarlier this year I hooked up with a Stack and Tilt instructor in my hometown – and given that there are only about 20 truly qualified instructors, I am fortunate to have one nearby – and my opinions about Stack and Tilt changed as I gained insight into the swing pattern built by Mike Bennett and Andy Plummer. Wi was a first-team All-America in 1995 at University of California, played and returned to the PGA Tour in 2007 after success at the 2006 Qualifying School. Wi also believes that Sean Foley, who he called “the person that’s working with Tiger,” has borrowed heavily from Stack and Tilt in his teachings. “If I’m 6’4”, my swing plane is going to be different than if I am 5’5”, and that’s geometry, and that does not change.” “Geometry means swing it in an arc, in a circle,” he continued. He said it emphasizes different swing planes depending on height. Geometry is the same with everybody,” he insisted. Wi said that the Stack and Tilt system was about geometry. “I told them, you know what, I’m going to empty my cup,” he explained. Wi started working with them after the Travelers tournament in Hartford. “I used to play a lot of golf with Steve Elkington, and he said he was working with the Stack and Tilt guys, and he was doing really well.” “My question was, I really wanted to know the moment of truth, which is impact,” he said after taking the lead in the BMW Championship. ![]() ![]() Wi said he went to the method because he was unable to find other instructors who could help him understand what was happening at impact. “They (Baddeley and Weir) aren’t here this week, so maybe they should be working with Andy and Mike.” ![]() “He (Weir) made $6 million in two seasons with Andy and Mike,” Wi continued. Wi also insisted that Mike Weir benefited from the Stack and Tilt. ![]()
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