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The New Tour Swing
Try it for yourself
For solid contact and more consistency, here's how to get started with the hottest swing on tour
Some people say our Stack & Tilt Swing is a reverse pivot because the weight doesn't shift to the right on the backswing. But why would you shift to the right when you know you have to be left at impact? Not even the pros are good enough to do that and get back to the ball on a consistent basis. And many of them are asking us why they were taught that way.
The answer is videotape. As you saw from the historical photos on the preceding pages, some of the game's greatest champions have made the moves we teach. But what the great players did and what they said they did often were two different things. When video came along, average golfers had a way of making sure they were doing what the pros said?swing back wide, shift to the right, maintain the knee flex, finish level. None of those things work for very long. Now we have a whole generation of golfers working on moves that will only make them worse.
What you have to do above everything else is control where your club hits the ground. That's how you make solid contact with the ball, and that's what the Stack & Tilt Swing is all about. Get started by locating your swing's low point with the drill at left. It's the first thing we do at the start of every lesson.
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Shoulder check
- Center stays in place
Here's an image to help you understand the correct shoulder turn. To keep your spine in line with the ball, as you should to promote solid contact, you have to rotate your shoulders in place. Think of your shoulders like the blades of a fan: They turn without the center moving (above, middle). If your shoulder center moves to the right as you swing back (above, right), you have to return it by impact, which is difficult to do with any consistency.
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Drill to Try
Place two clubs in a line, with a 12-inch gap between them. Using a 5-iron, hit balls from directly between the shafts. If your shoulder and hip centers are in front of the ball at impact, you'll make divots on the target side of the shafts. If you're hitting the ground behind the shafts, your centers are stuck behind the ball.
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