Moe Norman

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Murray Irwin Norman or Moe Norman (July 10, 1929 – September 4, 2004) was a Canadian professional golfer.

1 Career highlights
2 Details
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[edit] Career highlights

1955 and 1956 Canadian Amateur Champion
55 career Canadian Tour event victories
1980 through 1985 & 1987 Canadian Professional Golfers Association Seniors Championship
33 course records
Results in The Masters Tournament
- 1956: Shot 75 & 78 (153 total) then withdrew.
- 1957: Shot 77 & 74 (151 total) missing the cut by one stroke. This was the first year of cuts after the second round.

1966, 1974 Winner, Canadian Professional Golfers Association Championship
Winner of Canadian PGA Seniors' Championship eight times, including seven straight wins

[edit] Details

Born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, he played briefly in the PGA Tour but due to shyness and a preference to stay in Canada, he stayed in Ontario rather than travel. He was regarded by other pro golfers, such as American Lee Trevino, as a golf genius.

His play, along with his way of dressing, were both described as unconventional. He devised what is known as "The Norman Swing" -- very short backswing and very short follow-through which produced an amazingly accurate ball placement. Norman played extremely fast, sometimes not even slowing to line up his putts. He was inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 1995. He never took a golfing lesson.

Norman's skills as a ball striker are legendary. Sam Snead, himself a great golfer, once described Norman as the greatest striker of the ball. In January 2005, Tiger Woods told Golf Digest's Jamie Diaz that only two golfers in history "owned their swing": Moe Norman and Ben Hogan. Stated Tiger, "I want to own mine."

Norman died in a Kitchener hospital from congestive heart failure. He had suffered from congestive heart failure since having heart bypass surgery six years earlier. He also had a heart attack two years before his death.