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The best golfer no one's ever heard of..

  • 01-01-2009 10:46pm
    #1
    kagni
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 643 ✭✭✭


    Tiger Woods once said that only two golfers in history "owned their swing": Moe Norman and Ben Hogan. "I want to own mine" said Woods.

    Saw this guy on the golf channel a few years ago and he was amazing, he died in 2004.
    Came across this article and thought some might find it interesting.

    http://www.failuremag.com/arch_sports_moenorman.html


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  • #2
    stockdam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭stockdam


    Well I have heard of him and have a printout of his "thoughts"


    http://www.caddybytes.com/M_Norman.jpg



    His methods/swing were linked to "Natural Golf".



    Although a great ball striker he had a mental condition that meant that imo he was detatched from reality. He didn't like the tour and preferred to play at home in Canada.


    If you watch some of the clips of him then you'll see that he could hit the ball pretty well even though his swing looks a bit odd - but the main thing that you notice is that had mental difficulties.


  • #3
    WHIP IT!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,886 ✭✭✭WHIP IT!


    I read about him before alright. He was supposedly a very poor putter and often resorted to putting with a 3iron?

    I haven't read the link above so this tale might be included, but the writer of the article I read on him mentioned a story from a corporate open day he attended that Norman was a part of.

    Norman was hitting wedges for the crowd and nothing seemed out of the ordinary until the writer and the crowd slowly began to realise that every single ball was literally landing within a couple of inches of each other. Like a robot. Wedge after wedge after wedge.

    Great Story really, I must say.


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