Stack and Tilt Golf Swing
Posted on
September 5th, 2010
by golfswinghelp
Golf Life Television and Hitgolf.com interview Michael Bennett, the co-inventor of the popular new swing on the PGA Tour, The Stack and Tilt. Bennett and his partner researched golf swings and body mechanics to arrive at this golf swing philosophy that has been very successful with many PGA tour professionals like Dean Wilson, Mike Wier and Arron Baddeley. Find more golf feature videos online at www.golflifetv.com or www.hitgolf.com
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@spartanstackandtilt Now you’re using profanity, real classy. I might be good and I might not but I’m pretty confident you wouldn’t even win one hole. Why would I answer any questions you are asking? Shouldn’t you already know my tournament record? After all, you seem to be pretty sure of my employment.
@RandiesUnite couple of grand per hole! Wow you are really really good. Once again you didn’t reply to anything I said and also I don’t think a guy who plays a couple of grand per hole would be posting a****** remarks on a swing he knows nothing about. Dicks must be paying really well, why aren’t you on the pga tour again?
@spartanstackandtilt Yeah come on over to Muirfield in the off season and see if you can find the Dick’s I “work at”. And while you’re here we can play for a couple grand a hole. It’ll be a good ol’ friendly bet.
I admit I don’t get out as often as I would like but that has nothing to do with you knowing nothing about the sandt golf swing.I notice that you didn’t put down where you placed in those tournaments those “crappy” pga pros play. Dean did pretty good at the rvc can open, did you play there?I suppose sean o’hair and zach johnson suck also, they use sandt concepts. I guess since I don’t play as much as you, you are better person than me.Your mgr at Dicks is going to be mad at you for your comments
@helenathena it is hard to see when it is all done at once. In order to stay over the ball you have to stand up, tilt to the left, and rotate your shoulders in a circle. To prove this point, stand in front of a mirror, and set up like you would at address. stand up, tilt to the left, and then turn your shoulders around your body and you will stay centered. People are constantly insulting this swing method with no idea on the principles behind it.Take a lesson from a sandt teacher and u will c
@spartanstackandtilt With the small exception of Wi the other two won’t be around much longer they way they are going. The funniest part about Wilson and Axley (you spelled it wrong by the way) is that both had their only wins in 2006 before they completely converted to Crap and Tilt. Great attempt at a jab by way (saying I work at Dick’s). Do they really have a golf section there? The only people that would shop at a department store for golf equipment are weekend hacks, such as yourself.
@spartanstackandtilt hey i see you understand alot about the golf swing of s and t what i was woinder why not just stay stacked over the ball instead of tilting it still gives you a strong left post side to hit agaisnt, like sean foley does with sean o hair and hunter mahan and now is doing with tiger woods. I just dont under stand it.
@RandiesUnite Congrats! I see you mentioned that Charlie Wi, Dean Wilson, and Eric Axily are all crappy players, but they are still PGA pros. In these golfers last events where did you rank? No one is saying you don’t play well and no one is saying SandT is the only way, but to say it is crap when you don’t know anything about it is just plain ignorant. Just because you play golf for a living, ie work at dick’s sporting goods in the golf section, doesn’t mean sandt can’t be effective.
@spartanstackandtilt I do play golf for a living so you can go ahead and speak for yourself on this one, thanks.
@RandiesUnite most of us are not touring professional or professional athletes, so it really doesn’t matter. You, me, and 99.9999% of golfers are not as gifted as the touring pro dead last in the rankings. The SandT model is simplified way to strike a golf ball. It promotes keeping weight forward, bc most golfers hit behind the ball. It promotes a slight in to out swing bc most golfers come over the top. It is just another effective way to hit a golf ball.
@Snagga2010 Most tour pros are striving to a constant spine inclination to the ground, big difference. If your spine angle didn’t change your head would be way behind the ball in the backswing and way ahead in the follow through. You don’t think most golfers, who are slicers, would not benefit from a swing model that promotes a draw? You should get the SandT book or get a lesson, least then you could make a valid argument against SandT.
@sandersuperfollador if you are hitting the ball too low you are not doing the swing correctly. Get a lesson from a SandT instructor and you will find that sandt does not promote low ball flight. If all you’re doing is keeping your weight left you will run into a lot of problems. Charlie Wi hits the ball pretty high.
For the majority of players S&T isn’t the way to go although it is a quick fix for some. Most touring pro’s don’t stack and tilt but do strive for a constant spine angle which means the turn and keep a consistent swing plane. This has proven bio-mechanically to produce the best outcome shot wise and physically (from an injury perspective). If you load the right side and release appropriately you hit with the core muscles and don’t require either big shifts of weight (balance) or hand saves
i dont like stack and tilt beacuse too much weight on the left side causes the ball fly too low
Then we disagree on where the weight is at the top of the backswing. I see the weight favoring the left side for most of the pros I see on TV and when I saw them at a few tour events. There is also a video comparing Tiger and Zach Johnson on youtube. I know Zach is not working with Bennett or Plummer, but he does start stacked on the left. The video confirms that at least Tiger favors the weight to his left side at set up with mid/short irons. What players say and do are not always the same.
@shl102673 Saying the majority of touring professionals have more weight on their left side (right handers) at the top of the swing is completely false. It has always been and still is taught that at address weight distribution should be around 55/45, 55 being your right side (again for a right hander). When you start the take away you should make a move that allows your shoulders to turn over your right instep. Explain to me how in doing this the weight distribution is more on the left side?
@portales2010 well Zach johnson is just one GREAT golfer that use the stack and tilt swing.
Good golfer do not buy it. Bad golfer if you want a quick fix and have no hope of ever reaching your ability as a good golfer go for it.
@RandiesUnite I can’t decide if your hostility is toward OutlanderWarrior or S&T. Anyway, if you look at the majority of the PGA Tour professionals (take into consideration for camera angles) you will see more weight on the lead side than the trailing side (@ top of the back swing; not during transition) . The majority of current Tour pros have and implement some aspects of S&T. If you know of Mac O’Grady and Mike Bender, S&T should not be new to you. If you disagree, that’s fine too.
@OutlanderWarrior Well obviously when I said “anything” I was exaggerating a bit. Don’t act like you don’t know what I meant. Of course a good player can’t make “anything” work. But why would someone try to hit a golf ball with holding the club upside down for instance? I mean come on you can’t be THAT dense can you? I’m a plus handicapper and I could learn the S&T method in a couple range sessions and make it look like it “works” that doesn’t mean it’s “right”. Catch my drift?
@RandiesUnite, I’m probably wasting my time, but here’s what eludes you (being a typical modernist): There’s something called truth. In other words, there IS an ideal way to hit a golf ball. Whether or not the S&T fellows have discovered it is a different matter, of course. And your statement was illogical: “If you’re good enough with your golf swing you can make anything work.” Anything includes some things that don’t work. Thus, if you do those things, you won’t have a golf swing that works.
yeah those crappy pro’s what do they know i bet they could take every shot with there eyes closed and kick the crap out of you on any golf course… lol
@OutlanderWarrior I’m plenty open minded which is why I can SEE how big of a crock of shit this is. You named 3 crappy pros, awesome. It’s totally mental. People hear they will be a better player if they use it and talk themselves into it. If you’re good enough with your golf swing you can make anything work, hence the variety of swings you see on tour. 99% of them have one thing in common though they don’t use the stack and tilt crap.
@1986mikey, not exactly. I’m a former tennis pro and I can tell you that on every single shot the weight is on the front foot and the end of the backswing. I will add that on the serve, you do shift weight backwards during the take-away, but it is well forward before the upward movement into the ball begins. If your weight is still on your back foot at the end of your backswing, you’re going to have serious problems (in tennis or golf).
@RandiesUnite, well, you might want to be a bit more open-minded. I went from being a lousy ball-striker to someone who hit every shot between the screws with this method. Also, pros on tour do use it. Eric Axely, Dean Wilson and Charlie Wi are a few of them. Lastly, I don’t really think you understand the method, with all due respect. They’re just prescribing the kind of shoulder turn that Couples, Moe Norman and many other great ball-strikers use.