First S&T Lesson

Up until recently instruction for stack and tilt (S&T) has been difficult to find. Mainly one has to surf the internet and find the bulk of the instruction from forums. Dana's forum had been my main source of instruction since I switched to S&T. Lately he must be busy as the site has slowed down in terms of information, there is still a wealth of information there to search through even though there isn't that much new stuff. While on Dana's forum I learned of a S&T school in my area that Mike Bennett would be teaching at. The class was run by Paul Gorman a S&T teacher in Marin (about 1.5 hrs from me).

Mike is one of the two inventors of S&T and is a great teacher. Sadly though this was a class with 4 people in it, and while at the class I learned a great deal, I wasn't able to take much from the class to the course with me. Certainly there are some fundamentals that I still utilize today but it was only 4 hours spread out over 4 people and difficult to move from the half swings I was working on to full swings.

I later went to see Paul for a follow-up lesson and we worked on moving my ball position up, something I still work very hard on today, and getting my shoulders to a more square position at impact. This was a great lesson. I have struggled with losing the ball to the right and weak, since this lesson I have not had this problem nearly as much.

The only problem is that driving to see Paul is not easy. 1.5 hours means 3 hours of total driving and a loss of most of a day to have a lesson. Below is a video I took the day before and the day after my lesson with Paul.




Last Round update (Here I will post the stats from my last round in an effort to watch my improvement)


Village Country Club


Fairways:              6/14
GIR:                     13/18 (a new record for one round)
Putts(GIR/total):   1.92/33
Scrambling:          2/5
Score:                   74 (+2)