The Stack&Tilt® Golf system is the result of our quest to offer consistent improvement in our students’ golf games. Thus, the approach to the golf swing needed to be in a systematic manner. Utilizing techniques laid out by noted golf teacher Mac O’Grady, and in Homer Kelley’s classic book The Golfing Machine, Stack&Tilt Golf was able to systemize learning into a series of workable challenges.
The impact that our system had on the play of PGA TOUR professionals like Tom Scherrer and Grant Waite brought our teaching to the attention of other golf pros, leading to some of our other students (Aaron Baddeley, Dean Wilson, Eric Axley, and Will Mackenzie) accomplishing first-time wins on the PGA TOUR.
What followed was a Golf Digest profile highlighting the work that took place with Aaron Baddeley. This article attracted countless golfers looking for a reliable method for improving their game. Since 2005, Stack&Tilt Golf’s students have reported over $50 million in PGA TOUR earnings. and the system remains one of the most discussed game-changers in the world of golf instruction.
Our system has been profiled in publications like Golf World and Sports Illustrated, and on syndicated talk shows like The Charlie Rose Show. A best-selling book, The Stack and Tilt Swing, and two DVDs, the latest of which, Stack&Tilt 2.0 Understanding the Numbers, further refines the system using sophisticated bio-mechanics have garnered huge success. Having worked worked with ten different PGA tour winners, Stack&Tilt Golf prides itself on its ability to improve the games of players of all levels with a system that is understandable and accessible to all.
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During this period we were introduced to The Golfing Machine, a somewhat obscure instructional book written in 1969 by Homer Kelley. Kelley was not a competitive golfer or even a teacher until later in life, but his book showed us how science could be applied to golf. The same laws that govern the universe also govern golf. The book used classification as a way of separating the individual elements or components of the swing. This was what we were looking for in our own games: a system of organization. The advice of great teachers like Larry Bartosek, Tom Tomasello, and Mike Bender helped us put into context many of the principles laid out in The Golfing Machine.
With the help of another teacher, Mac O’Grady, we started to refine our perspective on the golf swing. His knowledge and guidance encouraged us to dig deeper into the patterns that exist in the game. We examined not only our own swings, but also those of the great players and, ultimately, average golfers. The more we studied historical photos of elite players, the more we saw the patterns develop.
And when we started cataloging the swings of average golfers, the reasons they were average also became clear. Most instructors analyze a golfer’s swing only to figure out what that golfer, individually, needs to do. Our systematic analysis of average players has been valuable not only in understanding bad technique but also in helping us see points that apply to even the best players.