Tour Pros Are Leaving S&T Swing Method

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Re: Tour Pros Are Leaving S&T Swing Method

It appears the tour pros are leaving the Stack & Tilt swing method in droves and returning to their old conventional golf swings and previous swing coaches.

Tour players are notoriously fickle. Not that I condone stack and tilt (nor do I support any METHOD really) but a tour pro will leave the moment things go a little tits up. They just want to go from coach to coach until the placebo effect hits. Then they will stick with them for a few months or even years until they need another placebo

Its a shame really

[rogue]

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Far more tour pros are moving away from the S&T method than moving into the method, which tells me the reason is more than just fickleness. It's been said the S&T guys are not satisfied with their ball striking and distance stats compared to their old traditional swings.

Maybe so now. But when they first moved into it the placebo effect hit and lots of them did quite good. I have never agreed with stack and tilt really, although each to their own. I have taught much more left sided swings before though - if its necesary to suit the player.

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Re: Tour Pros Are Leaving S&T Swing Method

A S&T swing just looks too much like a one legged golfer leaning his upper body toward the target at the top of the backswing. Also, I'm always expecting them to move into their right side on the downswing for a duffer's reverse weight shift. However, like most anything else, there are different degrees of the S&T method...and some of the S&T swings aren't as leftward leaning as some.

yeah, the way they advertse it looks awful. But when you look at the guys on tour doing it its just really a centred swing or similar to a reverse K position. From the ones I have seen it is nowhere near as dramatic as they sell it.

[kbp]

Re: Tour Pros Are Leaving S&T Swing Method

Considering that there never were "droves" of Tour players using S&T to begin with, and that the very, very best players were not using the method, IMO, there’s not much to take from them going back.

Beyond the S & T issue, I would also consider that at the Tour pro
level, the neural pathways of their "old" swing are deeply, deeply ingrained over years of practice and competition. Even incorporating proven, positive changes can actually be detrimental to their performance because they just can’t "play" a different swing, no matter how slight the change or how technically superior it makes their swing.
IMO, of course.

[rogue]

Re: Tour Pros Are Leaving S&T Swing Method

Considering that there never were "droves" of Tour players using S&T to begin with, and that the very, very best players were not using the method, IMO, there’s not much to take from them going back.

Beyond the S & T issue, I would also consider that at the Tour pro
level, the neural pathways of their "old" swing are deeply, deeply ingrained over years of practice and competition. Even incorporating proven, positive changes can actually be detrimental to their performance because they just can’t "play" a different swing, no matter how slight the change or how technically superior it makes their swing.
IMO, of course.

I would second that KPB