Stack & Tilt: My Backswing (cont.)

Continuing the GolfTEC analysis of my backswing, here I am going up against Tiger Woods (do I have to point out which image is me on the right). Compared to Tiger, I haven't maintained the triangle between my arms (my right arm has started to bend too early to maintain the distance between my elbows) and, as a result, my club head has gone under the swing plane line.

The ideal position, from the GolfTEC perspective, would be to (1) stay on the swing plane line as much as possible, at least during the first half of the backswing and the last half of the downswing and (2) maintain the distance between my elbows as much as possible. Stack & Tilt (S&T), on the other hand, wants the hands to move inward and the arms to stay attached to the body on the backswing. For me, performing the S&T move led me to get "stuck" on the backswing (as you'll see in future posts).

The Tiger takeaway feels very much like my old width swing where my hands moved as far away from my body as possible. What's different is that I'm in a more athletic posture and I feel more room between my hands and body. What the video also helped me to see is that I need to keep my hands and the club head on the swing plane line in addition to pushing my hands back in the width dimension. The reason for this move is to give your hands enough room (distance from the body) to swing freely.

What's somewhat interesting is that in Tiger's swing changes under Hank Haney, the hands moved further inside than under the old Butch Harmon swing. What's also interesting is that I was unable to find S&T still images to match the ones above. The S&T video, however, shows the club head and the hands going inside the swing plane line.