Learn To Golf: Finding the Perfect Swing

Of the millions of people who have played the game, a staggeringly small number could wilfully hit the ball where they aimed.Just two.Can you guess the names of both players?

 The first, and best known one was Ben Hogan. The other is Moe Norman. Moe is a legend among three generations of tour players. He was a Canadian pro who rarely left his home country but was well known to all the top touring pros from Lee Trevino and Nick Price all the way to present day superstar, Tiger Woods.

My exposure to Ben Hogan has been through my ever enlarging collection of dvds and online videos. Moe, on the other hand, I saw live on a number of occasions both during tournament play and at clinics he gave later in his career.

For two days I was in Moe’s group during a tournament in Ontario because I was looping for Alvie Thompson, an accomplished Canadian Tour player in the 1960′s and 70′s.

What set these two apart from virtually all their peers? What set them apart?

 Just think what an anomaly they are. Of the legions of folks who have played the game,only these two gentlemen could point and hit it to that spot.

 There is little doubt that Moe was not your mainstream personality and was incomprehensible at the best of times.

 His frequent feuding with the RCGA, the ruling body of golf in Canada, did not enhance his image or endear him to the public.

Few were interested in what Moe had to say about the golf swing given the fact that he looked so unorthodox over the ball. Because Moe spoke in riddle and repeated himself habitually, few bothered to try to examine what he was trying to say. He was often ignored or dismissed as an aberration incapable of sensibly explaining how he executed his considerable ball striking skills.It was difficult at best to weave a comprehensible swing theory from the thought fragments that Moe shared from time to time.

New theories now abound from an assortment of golf lab rats who are now trying to re-engineer the magic of Moe’s swing.

This has spawned the emergence of a number of competing “swing theories”, each purporting to have uncovered the Da Vinci Code that is Moe’s swing  . The claims of offering golfing nirvana based on Moe’s swing have been greatly exaggerated and are, frankly, disappointing.

 The pretender swings being marketed today lack the power and penetrating ball flight of the original swing. Few of the methods which purport to piggyback on Moe’s move replicate the man’s powerful action through the ball .

 My colleagues and I have tried these new methods and to a man (and a lady) all have encountered a disturbing loss of distance with every club in the bag.

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 In my youth, I caddied on one of the minor pro tours. As I indicated previously,Moe was one of three pros in our group for the first two days of the tournament.

 Moe preferred movement to the hit and hold pattern so commonly associated with tournament golf. He compensated by wandering about chatting to himself when waiting for those ahead to hit or putt out. To cope with the tedium, Moe was constantly dropping balls down wherever and chipping them . Where other players might pace about, Moe was more unusual in the manner in which he expressed his nervous tension.

 It is now difficult to know what is true and what is not when the subject of Moe’s on course and off course behaviour is discussed. The stories are certainly more suspect when they come from former caddies! Though it might be difficult to sort fact and fiction,no one disputes Moe’s ball striking. Remarkably, long into his senior years Moe still struck the ball with potency and purity.

 I saw up close and personal just how unerringly straight Moe Norman was . Because Moe conducted his exhibition up the fairway of a par 4, I had the unique opportunity to shag balls for him.It was disappointing that so few people came out that day to see truly one of the greatest ball strikers of this or any era. So accurate was the man that he literally was bouncing the balls at the feet of my colleague and myself.He simply motioned to back us up to a new position when he changed clubs and the balls would begin to rain down with predictable monotony. It was always hypnotizing to just sit there and revel in the artistry of the man.

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The diversity in personality between Ben Hogan and Moe Norman could not be greater. Inasmuch as Moe was eccentric, Ben Hogan was both aloof and dismissive. Though Moe struggled to explain the elements of his great ball striking, Ben Hogan, by contrast, made no concerted attempt to share his secrets with the rest of the golfing fraternity.The Hogan move has bewidered and befuddled a generation of golfers devoted to unravelling its mystery. The mystery of the Hogan swing has been an elusive quest which has consumed hundreds of golfers for over a half century.

Despite the efforts of the golfing community to reverse engineer the Hogan swing, the mystery prevails. Hogan has many imitators but few would claim that they are true exhibitors of the method.  It is likely that Hogan would not be dissatisfied with the current state of affairs . Like an Eastern mystic, he advised those who sought his knowledge to find it themselves by digging it out of the dirt. This qualifies as the kind of advice a crusty Calvinist gives to his children.

Hogan viewed life as antagonistic to his interests. To be fair, Hogan did not search out these qualities in others.He was a professional golfer you appreciated but didn’t love.Hogan did not bridge the gap between himself and the fans of the game