Off TRAQ Podcast — Golf's Real Conversations
Sep 1, 2026 · 1 hr 25 min · 13 segments
Golf instruction has never been more accessible, but has it actually made golfers better? Charles and Roy break down golf’s biggest swing trends, including the one plane swing, Stack and Tilt, Sean…
All right, for our main topic, this is actually going to be a really interesting one, I think.
So I think if you've been around the game long enough, you've seen these trends come and go.
Everybody chases it or everybody gives it a try.
You'll see a bunch of instructors pop up where this is their entire philosophy.
I feel like half the people then swear by it.
Everybody else, it like ruins their swing.
So we're going to talk about what these trends have been over the last 20 years or so.
What it is, if there was a famous instructor who really supported it, have we tried it? And then what we think about it, right? So we're going to, Charles and I are going to rate it as well, right? So one of the more famous swings that I think everybody has heard of at this point, although I didn't To be honest, I struggled a little bit.
It's like, is this a philosophy or is this just the right way to swing a golf club? But what we call the one plane swing now, right? So this is a trend that I think has actually come and gone a few times over the last few years.
Right.
But this is really your clubs, your arms, your shoulders.
They all travel in a single plane.
So you're really not supposed to lift your arms up too much.
It can look a little flatter.
Your club goes around your body.
Your trail elbow folds in and you're supposed to come back down on the same line.
Um, I think Bryson Shambo is probably like the real modern interpretation of this, right? Except he takes it to an extreme.
Have you tried this Charles or what do you think about this one?
One of the first things that I tried when I was learning golf was comparing the one plane to the two plane.
And I think mentally, logically, one plane made a lot of sense because as you guys know, my philosophy is let's remove as many variables from the golf swing as possible.
And so if you keep everything very consistent as a one plane, that does make sense.
However, I found early on that making it one plane and shallow at the top made me come down very steep.
All right, for our main topic, this is actually going to be a really interesting one, I think.
So I think if you've been around the game long enough, you've seen these trends come and go.
Everybody chases it or everybody gives it a try.
You'll see a bunch of instructors pop up where this is their entire philosophy.
I feel like half the people then swear by it.
Everybody else, it like ruins their swing.
So we're going to talk about what these trends have been over the last 20 years or so.
What it is, if there was a famous instructor who really supported it, have we tried it? And then what we think about it, right? So we're going to, Charles and I are going to rate it as well, right? So one of the more famous swings that I think everybody has heard of at this point, although I didn't To be honest, I struggled a little bit.
It's like, is this a philosophy or is this just the right way to swing a golf club? But what we call the one plane swing now, right? So this is a trend that I think has actually come and gone a few times over the last few years.
Right.
But this is really your clubs, your arms, your shoulders.
They all travel in a single plane.
So you're really not supposed to lift your arms up too much.
It can look a little flatter.
Your club goes around your body.
Your trail elbow folds in and you're supposed to come back down on the same line.
Um, I think Bryson Shambo is probably like the real modern interpretation of this, right? Except he takes it to an extreme.
Have you tried this Charles or what do you think about this one?
One of the first things that I tried when I was learning golf was comparing the one plane to the two plane.
And I think mentally, logically, one plane made a lot of sense because as you guys know, my philosophy is let's remove as many variables from the golf swing as possible.
And so if you keep everything very consistent as a one plane, that does make sense.
However, I found early on that making it one plane and shallow at the top made me come down very steep.
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