Originally Posted by Bagger Lance
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For those of you that have studied it beyond the magazine articles, whats it all about and why is it catching on?
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I think the greatest benefit of
Stack and Tilt (
Andy Plummer and
Mike Bennett) is its emphasis on the centered and stationary head. When you keep your head steady -- no Swaying (Fourth Snare / 3-F-7-D) -- good things happen.
As Andy explained to me on the practice tee of last year's
AT&T Classic, the much misunderstood 'tilt' portion of S&T is necessary to restore the centered head of the player who has swayed to the right (and 'tilted' his spine
away from the target). In other words, after the Sway, you must
'tilt back' (
toward the target) to
re-center the head that never should have moved in the first place! This is the demon they fight in so many of the players who come to them.
"But Andy," said I, "What if the player keeps his head
centered and
stationary . . . like this . . ." (and I demonstrated my backstroke).
"That's perfect," said he. "You don't need to tilt."
So . . . if you sway to the
right, S&T dictates that you 'tilt back' to the
left to restore the centered head (and the 'stack' of the lower and upper body). But, if you correctly 'stack', i.e., never 'unstack', then you don't need to 'tilt'.
Guess the editors at
Golf Digest didn't think we needed a system just called 'Stack'.
