keeping weight on front foot

[caddishack]

Is this a new technique? I heard Mike Weir was doing this now. I thought not transfering weight would make for a less powerful shot?

[Knockz]

Is this that new stack and tilt swing that are in a lot of the publications? Not sure if thats what the weight thing is about.

[Golden Bear]

Yes, this would be stack & tilt, and it's relatively new.

Re: power -- I believe what the stack & tilt guys say is that the power comes from the hip & shoulder turn, and not from the weight shift (the traditional weight shift merely facilitating the turn). To make a quick turn, users of this swing make a powerful push with their legs -- you can find more in depth discussion on golfdigest.com, I believe -- search for "stack and tilt".

The idea is greater consistency and accuracy, but they also will tell you you'll get more distance, and this seems to be borne out by the results of guys like Weir, whose driving distance is longer now than it was before. At the very least, power doesn't seem to suffer.

Golf Digest has done three separate stories on stack and tilt. It's an interesting thing to keep an eye on, but personally, I want to see a good deal of success among amateurs before trying it myself. I don't need more ways to screw myself up.

[Flog]

Eric Axley has also really benefited from the S&T this year. I think for some people it's just the thing. I've tampered with some of the steps, like the weight on front leg, and it didn't give me any noticable problems, although I automatically went back to the usual weight transfer/shift as soon as I stopped concentrating on the S&T.

[Ger63]

Golf Digest did a story about the Stack and Tilt earlier this year. Check it out here:
http://www.golfdigest.com/instruction/2007/06/stackandtilt1_gd0706
Cheers,
Ger

[ebaj1]

This is just a further exploration of what the pros have been doing for ages. It is also not a secret that their downswing is initiated even before they've completed their backswing and you can observe them shifting their weight to the left side (for righties) even before they've started their downswing, almost like they never shifted to the right. My longest and purest hits were done on this seemingly "wrong" technique. You have to practice this though 'cos it's so easy to skull the ball as you move forward and forget that your weight is already on your left side. Also, make sure not to open your shoulders through the hit or it'll go left, but once you get it, you'll easily add 10+ yds.:)

[hogannut]

My instructor was preaching this to me. The "idea" is to not put to much weight to one side which therefore means the move to the downswing is easier. It has helped me, that much I can say.