Moe Norman: The Canadian Golfing Legend with the Perfect Swing (Amazing Stories) | 
 enlarge | Author: Stan Sauerwein
Publisher: Altitude Publishing
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 724605
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 1551539535
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.352092
EAN: 9781551539539
ASIN: 1551539535
Publication Date: January 2004
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Product Description
Murray "Moe" Norman has always been a little different. When he took up golf, at the age of 12, he spent hours hitting balls, swinging the club until his hands bled. He soon became a phenomenon on the amateur golfing circuit. Humbly aware of his special gift, Moe went on to set 33 course records, including three 59s, and has shot 17 hole-in-ones.
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 The story of one of golf's greats October 13, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is the tale of Moe Norman, one of golf's greatest, but probably least well known heroes. Born into poverty, he used the extra time he had to turn himself into the greatest ball striker ever known. Overcoming financial problems, numerous brushes with the RCGA and other ruling bodies, he carved a place out for himself in golf history, and is now one of its immortal figures.
This book is geared mostly towards adolescent readers with a general interest in sports greats, preferably with a rudamentary understanding of golf. It will not satisfy the golf fan, though, as so much that was unique about Norman's game is not discussed. Many of the tales that surround him, such as the exhibition with Snead in which Norman launched a drive and rolled it over a bridge rather than lay up in front of a creek, are noted, but some of his greatest feats are left out. Many of those, such as being told by his caddy that a hole was a driver and a wedge to the green and Norman playing a wedge from the tee and a driver from the fairway, probably will be lost on non-golfers.
For a simple read into Moe Norman's life, this book more than fits the bill, but it treads too carefully. His problems with tournament organizers and golf's ruling bodies sets the plot, but that plot is very much a "disadvantage person carving his own way" sort of story, and not the tale of bravado golfers have come to expect regarding the greats. Good reading for a summer book report, but lacking for serious golf readers.
 A Brilliant Golfer!! Moe Norman Rules!! July 1, 2004
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
The reknowned author,Stan Sauerwein has written a great biography of a brilliant golfer,Moe Norman.He rules!!
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