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Mike Bennett (left) and Andy Plummer flank Aaron Baddeley, who has won twice on tour since switching to their

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Last Sept. 24, after rookie Eric Axley won the Valero Texas Open, Andy Plummer allowed himself a little

reflection. He called his teaching partner, Mike Bennett, and they talked about what to do when more playerscame calling. You see, Axley was the third player in six weeks to win his first event, and Plummer and Bennett

were teaching all three of them.

Known on tour as the Swing Whisperers for their almost mystical ability to help players win (Dean Wilson at the

International and Will MacKenzie at Reno-Tahoe were the other two first-time winners above), Plummer andBennett now work with 15 to 20 pros, including 2003 Masters champion Mike Weir and eight-time tour winnerBrad Faxon. They were unknown when they coached Aaron Baddeley to his first win, in 2006, but when Badds

won again in February, Plummer and Bennett were the hottest teachers in golf.

Their secret is a geometry-based swing model that contradicts almost everything being taught in the game today.They each carry a three-ring binder stuffed with images of great players who validate pieces of their swing model

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and tattered drawings that illustrate their points. In short, their swing has the player tilting dramatically to his left

on the backswing, and then springing up through impact. Players who get beyond its radical look marvel at the

pure strikes it produces.

A native Kentuckian whose soft-spoken manner belies a sharp intensity, Andy Plummer, 40, is an ardent studentof golf’s most complicated text, The Golfing Machine by Homer Kelley. Plummer and Bennett, 39, whose

easygoing nature complements Plummer, spent years by the side of swing guru Mac O’Grady, and also creditTom Tomasello and Craig Harmon, respectively. Both tried to play professionally, each advancing through thefirst stage of Q school in the mid-1990s, but wound up on the Hooters Tour, traveling, practicing and rooming

together—all the while refining the swing they teach today. But the Plummer-Bennett model isn't only about tourwins. Their plan is to change the way all golfers swing the club, a quest they rather immodestly call The

Revolution. To back up their teaching, they've helped establish a high-tech research-and-development facilityoutside Philadelphia. So while the Plummer-Bennett model is bagging tour wins, a team of researchers is starting

to test, measure and catalog what makes the swing they teach the best one a golfer can make.

*ROI'LJHVW has the basics of that swing, in publication for the first time.

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