65 YO Moe Norman

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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJDApBloeqQ&feature=related[/media]

65 years old he says...

260 yards...with an old small driver...range balls...

Looks to be calm conditions.

Not bad for a guy everyone says was such a short hitter...

Just think it's interesting. Gotta call it like I see it.
 
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Moe Norman is without question a great ballstriker, by anecdote alone. However, that does not mean his swing works as a model or method for other golfers. I think with Moe that is the issue. No other pro has used or won with a swing that remotely looks like that. If we are looking at models, why not Jack Nicklaus or Johnny Miller? In his prime, Miller hit it straighter than anyone and was a poor putter. I understand the admiration for Moe the golfer, not the swing as a method or model. Moe was amazing and certainly had enough power. As an example of optimum swing, it is hard to accept, based on the greater success other player's models have had.
 
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What I find interesting is how Moe's swing evolved. There is a 1959 newspaper photo sequence somewhere on the web that appears to show a narrower stance, and the club behind the ball at address.
 
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greenfree

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rogerdodger said:
Moe Norman is without question a great ballstriker, by anecdote alone. However, that does not mean his swing works as a model or method for other golfers. I think with Moe that is the issue. No other pro has used or won with a swing that remotely looks like that. If we are looking at models, why not Jack Nicklaus or Johnny Miller? In his prime, Miller hit it straighter than anyone and was a poor putter. I understand the admiration for Moe the golfer, not the swing as a method or model. Moe was amazing and certainly had enough power. As an example of optimum swing, it is hard to accept, based on the greater success other player's models have had.
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There is no model swing, if there is whose is it? Jim Furyk, Tiger, Jack , Trevino, Watson, Hogan ,? There's only the swing that works for you, your optimal swing, like Moe said himself, swing like you, not like me. You have to find what works for you that's the real game.
 
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greenfree said:
There is no model swing, if there is whose is it? Jim Furyk, Tiger, Jack , Trevino, Watson, Hogan ,? There's only the swing that works for you, your optimal swing, like Moe said himself, swing like you, not like me. You have to find what works for you that's the real game.
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I agree completely, which is why I object to teaching that relies on a theory that a particular player, whether Hogan, Moe, Larry or Curly had the swing that all should aspire to.
 
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Brian Manzella

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LOVE IT!!

This swing looks a LOT LIKE the Hogan swing from the Coleman estate.

Both guys in their 60's and making a swing that looks like 90% of all golfers could physically make.

Funny, they don't have anything like this centered pivot thing....
 
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