By: Golf Digest | Duration: 00:08:22
Video Description
Tiger Woods says only two players have ever “truly owned their swings”, Ben Hogan and Moe Norman. The legend of Moe Norman and his homemade golf swing have fascinated players, coaches and fans since he began breaking records in the 1950s. But what was the secret to his incredible ball striking?
In this Film Study, Luke Kerr-Dineen dives into one of the most unique and successful swings in golf history and explains what amateur golfers can learn it.
Senior Editor: Luke Kerr-Dineen
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The best thing about Moe Norman is, that nothing is caught on launch monitors… I mean we "hear" he was a savant of golf, but it seems it is very difficult to find actual evidence!
Maybe he had an affective swing but hogan had the most beautiful swing which has not been matched today.
Idiosyncratic swing that worked for him. Not something to copy. Many great ball strikers do different things to achieve success. This is just one. Moe swung the club like this before he decided to dissect it. It is not the result of any plan. It is just his way.
"most pros tilt with almost no tilt at set up" is categorically false. The angle you used for the tiger shot was egregiously bad. Here's an actual face on angle showing tiger's significant tilt with Driver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jlp8G9paliw
(PS as clubs get shorter there is less tilt, obviously)
He was hit on the head as a child leading to his socially awkward behaviour. This was the reason he couldn't fit in the highly competitive and professional PGA world. Best ball striker? Yes. Best golf player? We'll never know.
Boring video. Same shots, over and over and over and over again. Of the Moe Norman videos I have seen, this is at the bottom.
His swing is genius, not extremely difficult but you need to understand it. Most impressive is knowing how to use that brief breaking motion that creates so much power at impact.
Best ball striking, Yes. Best swing, No.
He was great because he practiced so much that it became 100% feel. Being a great ball striker does not mean best swing. Jim Fyrik and Chichi Rodriguez are prime examples of this.
He also played before the era of long courses. He would not have come to prominence in the post-Tiger era.
Missing the whole point . Watch the hands , especially lead wrist and let the rest follow .
Personally i think mo norman has the most disgusting golf swing ive ever seen and i think anyone not on the same spectrum scale has little to no chance of emulating .
Canadian Legend!
Watch this, then take a lesson with Mike Bender, or watch his content.
If he was so good then why wasn’t he on PGA?
no. axis golf ai is the perfect swing. improvement to moe and hogans swing.
One word, no! By the way you just cannot believe a word Trevino says.
it's a great video, and we love moe—but hogan was the best ball striker, and i'm sure moe himself would agree
Hot take time:
I think its a popular opinion to say "OMG… Moe was the absolute BEST ball striker EVER" and no one wants to say otherwise or else you look like you dont know what you are talking about. Holding this opinion is like having some special inside knowledge of a golf savant that most people have never heard of… so it makes you one of the special ones "in the club" if you know about him.
Here is the thing: by all accounts his swing did not produce distance… he was a short hitter.
Sorry/not sorry… but you have to hit it long. All the greats hit in long. Maybe you could say that a few were of average length like Byron Nelson… but I challenge you to name a great who was a short hitter.
No matter how "deadly accurate" you are, if you cant it it far, you will not really be competitive with the best.
Its no different than saying that some long driving champion is the best driver ever. Nope. Unless they hit a certain % of fairways at their max distance, they are not in the conversation. Foul balls dont count.
The best ball strikers are a combination of distance and accuracy. Their swings produce power AND consistency. If you have to sacrifice one for the other, you are not in the conversation.
moe was amazing but who else cant watch his swing for to long or they will start rethinking their own with his tendencies, which will be disastrous for 99pct of us. lol
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Moe Norman was so good that he was a failure on the US Tour. 😅😂
33 course records. 33. That alone must be a record surely.
I think the real story behind Moe was him being hit by a car when he was a small boy.
This may have rewired his mind to genius level, which happened to focus on golf, but left him appearing eccentric and 'different,' which has always been taboo in the states, imo. The tour was never going to accept this brilliant but odd legend. The tour's and golf's loss.
My golf hero !!
If you look closely, he does start his left hip before his upper body starts. That's key to his good timing also.