Has anyone had any success with an alternative swing?

Question

Has anyone had any success with an alterative swing? Such as stack and tilt, one plane swing, symple swing, moe norman etc. I am looking for someone to comment who was a high handicapper and now a mid handicapper or maybe anyone who has heard of another person being successful after this swing change.

Answer 1

Think of throwing a sack of potatoes or slamming a door with two hands. You will naturally make the right move. if you fall back slamming  door it is time to quit. Make it simple and don't over think. Also hit it hard while keeping your head steady. Practice swinging  the club back and forth harder and harder keeping your head level. when you go to hit, you will not realize you are hitting harder.

Answer 2

YES!!!  I've tried the single and double plane swing.  Like everyone else on my quest to lower my scores I've experimented quite extensively.  Find the swing that compliments your body type and flexibility.  The Moe Norman,"natural golf"swing has to be the easiest and quickest swing to learn.  The downside is sacraficing distance.  The upside is a consistent ball flight.

Answer 3

one plane (the Moe Norman Way) is probably the easiest, for me anyway.  I grew up playing baseball, and it feels like a baseball swing to me, so it was a natural adjustment.  There's more going on in a two-plane swing for my liking.  Stack-and-Tilt seems more like a fad. Look at Aarron Baddely, it's posterboy, who flopped miserably paired w/ Tiger last year at the British Open (had the lead, threw it away with a 75 on Sunday).  

You wanna try radical?  In Golf Magazine, Dr. TJ Tomasi introduced the "No Backswing Swing".  Just as the name implies- it's even MORE like a baseball swing than the one-plane swing.  Supposedly, it eliminates 75% of backswing errors (laying off, being too steep, etc.)  Their test subject even gained about 6 yards per club!  Too extreme for me, but if you wanna give it a go, check out golf.com and look up the article for the finer points of the "NBS".

Answer 4

the stack and tilt seems to be the swing of the future I believe appleby wier and a few others have switched and started winning again I have a friend who already had a reverse pivot and instead of fighting it switch to stack and tilt and has dropped about 10 to 12 stroke much to my dismay

Answer 5

I have been playing since 1963 and learned using a traditional swing with a pronounced inside out move and hit a draw.  This past season I developed a problem coming over the top and couldn't seem to get out of it so read about the "stack and tilt" and feeling I had nothing to loose gave it a try.  It is weird and the key is the "jump up" at impact, but I hit the ball solidly and it is almost impossible to come over the top.  After about 5 to 8 rounds I went back to my old swing, and am hitting it much better.  So while I have not converted to stack and tilt forever, I hold it in reserve now as a way to get out a funk I may fall into with my normal swing.