Stack and Tilt- Bennett/Plummer 9-4

Mike Bennett and Andy Plummer
The traditional golf swing requires a level of coordination that few golfers have. So it's no surprise that, despite huge advances in club and ball technology, the average golf handicap in America has dropped by only one stroke since 1990. Maverick golf instructors Michael Bennett and Andy Plummer spent a decade researching the swing, eventually combining physiology and physics to create a method they dubbed the "Stack and Tilt." The result? Big-name pros like Mike Weir, Tommy Armour III, and Aaron Baddeley are already converts, and Bennett and Plummer are now two of the most soughtafter swing coaches in the game.

Making these breakthroughs available to everyone, The Stack and Tilt Swing is a handsome, fully illustrated, complete course, packed with more than two hundred full-color photographs that make it easy for golfers at all levels to adopt this radical yet simple approach. Analyzing why the traditional swing won't work for most golfers, the authors explain the importance of keeping the upper body stacked over the lower body, while the spine tilts toward the target during the backswing, greatly reducing the inconsistencies created by the old-fashioned approach. Enhanced with practice routines, a troubleshooting list, test cases, and point-by-point assistance, this is the breakthrough guide to golf's hot new secret weapon.

A native Kentuckian whose soft-spoken manner belies a sharp intensity, Andy Plummer, 40, is an ardent student of golf's most complicated text, The Golfing Machine by Homer Kelley. Plummer and Bennett, 39, whose easygoing nature complements Plummer, spent years by the side of swing guru Mac O'Grady, and also credit Tom Tomasello and Craig Harmon, respectively. Both tried to play professionally, each advancing through the first stage of Q school in the mid-1990s, but wound up on the Hooters Tour, traveling, practicing and rooming together—all the while refining the swing they teach today. But the Plummer-Bennett model isn't only about tour wins. Their plan is to change the way all golfers swing the club, a quest they rather immodestly call The Revolution. To back up their teaching, they've helped establish a high-tech research-and-development facility outside Philadelphia. So while the Plummer-Bennett model is bagging tour wins, a team of researchers is starting to test, measure and catalog what makes the swing they teach the best one a golfer can make.