Mike Bennett and Andy Plummer

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 90s and later committed to instruction in the early 2000s,[6] after taking courses with Larry Bartosek, Tom Tomasello, 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.[8]

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,[9] but is shared by Sean Foley.[10]

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.[11] Since then, it also received criticism from other instructors.[12]

References

  1. ^ Mike Bennett 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) page XIX
  2. ^ Chris Lewis, "The Scorecard Always Lies: A Year Behind the Scenes on the PGA Tour" (ISBN 978-1416537168), page 179
  3. ^ Mike Bennett 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) pages 95 to 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. http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-instruction/2007-06/stackandtilt_gd0706. Retrieved 6 July 2010. 
  5. ^ Charlie Rose on Wednesday, December 23, 2009. Retrieved 8 July 2010
  6. ^ a b Chris Lewis, "The Scorecard Always Lies: A Year Behind the Scenes on the PGA Tour" (ISBN 978-1416537168), pages 179, 180
  7. ^ Mike Bennett 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) page XVI
  8. ^ Mike Bennett 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), page XVI
  9. ^ E.g. GolfToday.co.uk "Move Over - Then hit it", by Janice Moody, 1999, retrieved 19 July 2010
  10. ^ Sean Foley: Thoughts on Solid Contact, Golf Channel, retrieved 13 July 2010
  11. ^ Plummer, Andy; Bennet, Mike (June 2007). "The New Tour Swing: How it Works". Golf Digest. Condé Nast Digital. http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-instruction/2007-06/stackandtilt1_gd0706. Retrieved 6 July 2010. 
  12. ^ Bennett, Mike; Plummer, Andy (September 2007). "Stack & Tilt Critics Speak Out". Golf Digest. Condé Nast Digital. http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-instruction/2007-09/stacktiltcritics. Retrieved 6 July 2010. 

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