The Stack and Tilt Golf Swing - Some Comments

In a recent issue of Golf Digest (June 2007) a "new" golf game game swing being promoted by golf managers Andy Plummer and Microphone Floyd Bennett is featured. This new attack to the golf game swing is called the "Stack and Tilt" swing.

In describing the Stack and Joust swing, Simon Peter Morrice, the writer of the article, indulges in a spot of exaggeration when he states "Their secret...contradicts almost everything being taught in the game today." But is this swing really that unique?

The Key Difference

The greatest difference with the "Stack and Tilt" swing is that it completely downplays the thought of shifting your weight to your dorsum ft when making the backswing. In fact this "new" swing promotes the golf player to maintain his or her weight on the presence foot, and, if anything, move it more than directly over the presence ft during the takeaway.

Some aged golf players will believe this expressions like a "reverse pivot" where the golf player looks to be leaning towards the mark at the top of the swing. Teachers of the typical modern swing have got their golf game pupils pull the baseball baseball club dorsum and stack their weight over their back leg when the club hits the top of the swing. But Stack and Joust promotes the golf player to tilt towards the mark while the baseball club is taken up.

Some Elusive Differences

For many golf players it may be difficult to descry the differences at first, but there are some important ones. For one thing with the typical modern swing the dorsum leg stays bent with a flimsy flex at the knee. With the Stack and Joust the dorsum leg straightens out. The photographs featured in the Golf Digest article (p.122) show how the dorsum leg straightens out as it forces back towards the target.

As a consequence the presence side of the organic structure is "stacked" over the presence foot, and the trailing side of the organic structure is "tilted" towards the target.

For a comparing with the typical modern swing expression at photographs of Tiger's swing of the last few years, or see the photograph of V.J. Singh's swing on page 43 of the same issue of Golf Digest. Singh's upper organic structure is "stacked" over his dorsum leg at the top of the swing, and the trailing side of his trunk is perpendicular to the land as he forces his weight dorsum over his back leg. This is quite different from the manner the trunk is angled towards the mark with the Stack and Joust swing.

It's All Been Done Before

If you are familiar with the instructions of most modern golf game game managers this may sound like a extremist going from golf orthodoxy. But the fact is, there have got always been option schools of thought which questioned the simplistic "weight shift" idea. In particular, expression at old photographs of Jack Nicklaus, Ben Ben Hogan or Surface-To-Air Missile Snead. None of these golf players do the major displacement over the dorsum leg like you see with Tiger Woods, for instance.

Or have got a stopping point expression at the celebrated 1930s pictures produced by Bobby Jones. There is no obvious displacement towards the dorsum leg. Mother Jones stays centered over the ball throughout the swing and is more than than concerned with rotation around the centre point than he is with the lateral pass weight displacement feature of the typical modern swing.

Points of Interest

There are clearly some facets of the Stack and Joust swing that may assist the norm golf game player hit the golf ball more squarely and more precisely.

The first is the deficiency of accent placed on the weight shift. For many golf game players this thought is deceptive and consequences in a lateral pass displacement that basically turns the golf ball into a moving target. Shifting one's weight to the dorsum also consequences in a "shallower" swing which increases the opportunities of bottoming out too early. Depending on a assortment of factors this tin either consequence in fat shots or thin ones. As an alternative, pressing into the presence ft as you take the baseball club back very definitely military units a steeper attack to the ball and should ensue in fewer topped shots. It also consequences in a less flight since it de-lofts the club, and this may give you greater tally on certain sorts of fairways.

The 2nd point is that Stack and Joust advances a flatter swing. A flatter swing is less perpendicular and more than than rotational, and is the manner Stack and Joust counterbalances for being more on top of the ball when the downswing is begun.

The 3rd point is the fairly advanced thought of the "pelvic thrust" which the Stack and Joust instructors claim assists acquire the baseball club approaching the ball correctly. This is probably where Stack and Joust goes too hard for many norm golfers. With Stack and Tilt, since one's weight and shoulder place are forward, the attack to the ball will be significantly steeper than normal. The pelvic thrust, along with the more than rotational swing, assists to "shallow out" the swing. You accomplish this by rapidly rotating your hips around and pushing your presence hip up and towards the target. This makes the sense experience of almost jumping up and dramatic the ball while on your toes. If you've ever seen Natalie Golbus swing a golf game baseball club you've got a fairly good thought what this expressions like.

If these look like technical points that are beyond your degree of expertise, just give the "weight forward" thought a try. All you have got to make is start with noticeably more than weight on your presence foot, and then press into that ft as you take the baseball club up. You will probably happen that it experiences quite different from what you are used to. This move should ensue in fewer thin hits. But it may also ensue in more than pushes, especially with the longer clubs, so you may have got to set the placement of the ball. You may also happen it more than than physically taxing - requiring more organic structure deformations - and for most of us that is not a good thing.