The tour's newest golf swing, most notably utilized by Aaron Baddeley, Zach Johnson and Mike Weir, the Stack and Tilt is catching like wildfire in and around the golfing arena. Recently, my father who is now in his late 50's has struggled with consistent distance and control for some time now. We've tried several different methods to work his golf swing into one that is repeatable and allows him to play within himself, however, mostly unsuccessful, until now. Me, being a low handicapper and astute student of the game having taught some, both on and off the record have known about the stack and tilt for better than a year now and knew that this swing was/is not for everybody, or so i thought.
This week we take a look at bunker play and how to not spend "valuable" shots in the traps. The weekend golfer has a particular anxiety about getting up and out of green-side, as well as, fairway bunkers. While these type of shots appear difficult they are actually of the most fundamentally easy to execute. When approaching bunker play, i believe the first mistake many amateurs make is to try and emulate professionals. many people will lay open the blade, swing with a big arc, strike down at the ball, all the while praying they do not skull, chuck or blade the shot and most often they will do one of the three, just mentioned. (0)
Most weekly golfers have had the experience of putting together a good six-seven holes at (-2,-1, or even) thus far on the first nine and then we take a dreaded double bogey or even worse. At the moment when the ball hits the cup on that most unpleasing hole our thought process becomes that of "I have to make those strokes back, NOW," and we proceed on to the next hole with that one thought dominating and clouding our judgment. 99% of the time, the hole we are trying to bounce back on IS the wrong hole to even think of attaining such a feat.
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