Mike Bennett and Andy Plummer

Mike Bennett (born December 12, 1967 in Jordan, New York) and Andy Plummer (born December 23, 1966 in Vanceburg, Kentucky) are a duo of golf instructors who have coached PGA Tour players Charlie Wi, Steve Elkington, Tom Scherrer, Grant Waite, Troy Matteson, Bill Lunde, Mike Weir and Aaron Baddeley, among others. ^{[1] [2]} Bennett and Plummer are also known because the golf swing model they developed challenges some aspects of current mainstream golf instruction. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

Bennett and Plummer played in the mini tours during the mid 1990s and later committed to instruction in the early 2000s, ^[6] after taking courses with Larry Bartosek, Tom Tomesello, Mike Bender and Mac O'Grady. ^[7]

The stack and tilt swing

Bennett and Plummer wrote, with Peter Morrice, the book The Stack and Tilt Swing ( ISBN   978-1-592-40447-6). The "Stack and Tilt" model prescribes keeping the body weight forward during the whole swing, straightening the back leg through back swing and performing a steep shoulder turn, all in order to keep the shoulder turn axis in place. The theory follows some ideas that are present in Homer Kelley's book "The Golfing Machine". ^[6]

The method was called that way because of the way the spine tilts throughout the swing to keep the golfer "stacked", or to keep the upper-body center in one place during the swing, and the name was chosen with the help of Charlie Wi. ^[7]

In Stack and Tilt the weight starts left (for righthanded players) and goes more left during the swing. This idea collides with mainstream golf instruction, ^[8] but is shared by Sean Foley. ^[9]

The Bennett and Plummer model gained publicity beyond the PGA Tour players and instructors environment once a major golf magazine covered it in June 2007. ^[10] Since then, it also received criticism from other instructors. ^[11]

References

1. Bennett, XIX.
2. Lewis, 179.
3. Bennett, pp. 95–116: Chapter 5, "Stack & Tilt versus the conventional swing".
4. Morrice, Peter (June 2007). "The New Tour Swing: The Swing Whisperers". Golf Digest. Condé Nast Digital. Retrieved 2010-07-06.
5. (interview). Charlie Rose. December 23, 2009. Retrieved 2010-07-08. Archived March 25, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
6. Lewis, 179–80.
7. Bennett, XVI.
8. E.g. GolfToday.co.uk Archived 2011-11-07 at the Wayback Machine "Move Over - Then hit it", by Janice Moody, 1999. Retrieved 2010-07-19.
9. Sean Foley: Thoughts on Solid Contact, Golf Channel. Retrieved 2010-07-13. Archived May 5, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
10. Plummer, Andy; Bennet, Mike (June 2007). "The New Tour Swing: How it Works". Golf Digest. Condé Nast Digital. Retrieved 2010-07-06.
11. Bennett, Mike; Plummer, Andy (September 2007). "Stack & Tilt Critics Speak Out". Golf Digest. Condé Nast Digital. Retrieved 2010-07-06.

Citations

• Bennett, Mike, and Andy Plummer with Peter Morrice, "The Stack and Tilt Swing: The definitive Guide to the Swing that is remaking Golf" ( ISBN   978-1-592-40447-6)
• Lewis, Chris, "The Scorecard Always Lies: A Year Behind the Scenes on the PGA Tour" ( ISBN   978-1416537168)

External links

• Bennett and Plummer interviewed by Charlie Rose, December 23, 2009^{[ dead link ]}
  • Internet Archive (2013-03-28)
  • YouTube (2:41)
• The Stack & Tilt official website
• Peter Morrice at Library of Congress , with 5 library catalog records