Was Moe Norman a better ball striker than Ben Hogan.?

Yes...no doubt about it Moe was the best ball striker ever and I'll tell ya how good he was. On the driveing range at Bay hill; wearing only street shoes and useing a borrowed three iron that was set four degrees upright ;while Moes own clubs are set at least four degrees flat he went at it. Moe had been proded into showing a pro with a totaly opposite swing as his own; how to strike a ball. There was a left to right cross wind blowing steady at 20mph....the worst kinda wind for a right handers to keep their balance in. Moe empty a bucket of balls; talking as he was swinging....every ball landed dead on top of a range flag...seemingly not moving a inch throught its flight. This was on a Wednesday and the range was pack full of the so called golfing greats. Palmer, Watson, Strange..ect..probably two dozen or more. In time they all stop hiting and started watching..this was in 90 or 91....I would have to say most had no idea who he was..or that that wasnt even his club...but they knew what they were watching.The best ball striker they ever seen; at this time Moes age was somewhere in the early fiftys...in 96 in Canada I seen him droping balls on the dirt on a driving range and swinging a driver...'Working' the ball off the dirt with a drvier inbetween a gallary set so tight to his left and right that it was border line insane to be attempting anything like this; let alone doing these shots from a lie that he didnt even touch after he drop the ball. As he had said "The ball will fit...ball will fit; three foot opening two inch ball lots of room; the ball will fit".When anyone ask him what his best round ever was he would reply " Five pins" ya see Moe always aimed at the pin...and one day hit five pins in one round; all of them shots to the green in regulation (you can guess that back then none of those shots were within 100 yards)....now if only he was good at rolling the little devil...oh well as it has been said 'God doesnt give us everything'|||Yes!!!!!!!





He is the man with the perfect swing.





His shots with wedges and short irons would LAND ON TOP OF EACH OTHER!|||Moe had, in my opinion, a relatively ugly and unathletic looking swing...but your question was about ball striking. Moe Norman is by far the most consistant ball striker that I have ever seen. Watching Moe on the practice tee was more than a clinic. His crispness, accuracy and consitancy was amazing.


I never had the honour of seeing Hogan swing a club in person, but have seen plenty of video, have read a couple of his books, and have modelled many parts of my humble swing after Ben Hogans. I have in no way tried to emulate Moes' flat, short, abrupt, clumsy looking attack on a ball. But I would say that Moe Norman Hit the ball further, straighter, more consistently, had more shots in the bag...high fade, low fade, high draw, low draw, dead straight (and I mean laserstraight, time after time) high, dead straight low, off of the turf, out of the rough, off of a tee, off of the foot high tee he'd use for exhibitions, off of glass beer bottles...you name it.


Norman was a better ball striker than Hogan. On the practice tee.|||idonno was he|||Remember that Hogan won majors and perfected his game after a crippling car accident.|||Moe stuck it well but only hit his driver 250 on a good day. moe could keep it in the fairway but had a very bad short game. did not win on the pga tour in 58 events. Hogan hit his driver 270 yards and his swing is easyier to copy than


Moe,s. Moe also had woods 1 thu 8 and even irons 2, 4, 6, 8, w ,sw, putter.