Some people say our Stack & Tilt Swing is a reverse pivot because the weight doesn't shift to the right on the backswing. But why would you shift to the right when you know you have to be left at impact? Not even the pros are good enough to do that and get back to the ball on a consistent basis. And many of them are asking us why they were taught that way.
The answer is videotape. As you saw from the historical photos on the preceding pages, some of the game's greatest champions have made the moves we teach. But what the great players did and what they said they did often were two different things. When video came along, average golfers had a way of making sure they were doing what the pros said -- swing back wide, shift to the right, maintain the knee flex, finish level. None of those things work for very long. Now we have a whole generation of golfers working on moves that will only make them worse.
What you have to do above everything else is control where your club hits the ground. That's how you make solid contact with the ball, and that's what the Stack & Tilt Swing is all about. Get started by locating your swing's low point with the drill at left. It's the first thing we do at the start of every lesson.
