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Related: Golf on TV this week | Browse Ryder Cup gear In his time on Tour, Zokol remembers two players - Sandy Lyle and Tony Sills - trying to implement Norman's swing when their conventional swings betrayed them. I wonder what the data off Trackman would show concerning his swing?” “I’d think this would lead to more golfers trying his methods. “Moe would be more widely accepted today,” Rubenstein said. We talked to Lorne Rubenstein, an award-winning writer from Canada who penned the book, “Moe and Me.” 'I also don't believe the average golfer is physically strong enough, in their core region - an area where most golfers are horribly weak and out of shape - to use the one-plane method.' 'A 'logical' method doesn't always translate into better performance,' he said. Zokol said that unless you fall into the 'obsessive' category like Norman and DeChambeau, he wouldn't recommend the single-plane swing. He said 'I know, I'm the best in the world.' Our friendship ensued and I spent the next 10 years playing and practicing with him to learn more about him and his swing.' ' After watching him do a clinic in Chicago I walked up to him and told him he was the best in the world that I had ever seen.

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I met Moe in 1994 after a stint on the Asian PGA professional golf tour,' he said. RELATED: The story behind the highest score ever shot on the PGA Tour | The odds of golf's most unlikely shots He sought out Moe after getting frustrated with the big-name instructor he was working with. Graves, however, was one of those people with the time and the desire to learn what made Norman's swing produce such accurate results. As far as the move, he said, 'Give me five years with (a) kid and hundreds of thousands of balls, he'll hit it like me.' You don't get it overnight and dedicating five years to something so eccentric doesn't work for everybody.' “'A lot of people will refuse to make a swing that looks weird even if the ball goes dead straight. 'One, the swing looks weird, ' Guzzi said. Or, in the words of Norman's favorite Frank Sinatra song, 'My Way.'Ĭheck out the diagrams of Norman at address provided to PGA.com by Graves:Ģ013 PGA National Teacher of the Year Lou Guzzi was so intrigued by the move he hit ball after ball to see what the swing felt like. That’s one way to make a swing more easily repeatable.īut. To Graves, Moe’s position at impact shows the spine can keep its angle and position all the way through the swing. He exclusively teaches Norman's single plane golf swing. Todd Graves is a professional golfer and the co-founder of Graves Golf Academy. With the club a foot behind the ball, he was forced to keep that position into impact.Ģ. He was already setting up the ideal impact position he wanted to return to on the swing. Norman had his hands ahead of his club head relative to his target. The reason? This was the secret to setting the swing in motion.

Moe Norman does something you never see at address - he places the clubhead a foot or so behind the ball. Let's break down a little bit of what he did.ġ. It’s a simple, single-plane swing that he repeated He played just 27 events on the PGA Tour - he felt more comfortable north of the border - but made the cut 25 times in those startsĪnd while his swing might look funny to many, few in the game’s history wielded a swing quite as repeatable and accurate as Moe Norman. Good enough to collect 55 victories on the Canadian Tour. It's no surprise that Hogan - with his nine major victories - is the name that resonates more with golf lovers than Norman (Photo below of Norman courtesy of John Haramik).īut Norman was a hell of a player. In January 2005, Tiger Woods, told Golf Digest's Jaime Diaz that only two golfers in history have 'owned their swings.' Those two players? Moe Norman and Ben Hogan. Can average players learn something from his metronome-like effectiveness? They sure can. We’ll break down his swing in this story to find out exactly how he did what he did. You can watch his swing on YouTube and see hints of it on professional golf tours around the world. The legend around Norman has grown since his death in 2004. Any discussion of the game’s greatest ball-strikers has to include Moe Norman. If not, here’s the one-sentence scouting report: he was an eccentric Canadian professional golfer with an odd-looking swing who could make a golf ball do anything he wanted. Or, as three-time major champion Vijay Singh once referred to him, 'God's gift to golf.'

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