How Moe Norman Solved (and Simplified) Golf’s Most Complex Problem

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Moe Norman revolutionized golf by discovering what great players do naturally – but he found the simplest path to get there. While all elite golfers deliver the club on plane at impact, most take a complex route with multiple plane shifts during their swing. Moe’s genius was recognizing that starting on the same plane you want to impact on eliminates unnecessary compensations and timing issues.

In this video, I break down the biomechanical advantages of Moe’s single plane approach. You’ll see how traditional swings require precise coordination to return the club to the correct impact plane after moving off it during the backswing. Moe’s method maintains consistent body positioning and club relationship throughout the entire motion, creating a more repeatable and efficient swing pattern.

We’ll analyze the key body positions that make this possible – the setup posture that naturally aligns you with the target plane, the shoulder turn that maintains this relationship, and the simplified downswing sequence that doesn’t require complex rerouting. This isn’t just theory – it’s observable biomechanics that explains why Moe could hit ball after ball with legendary consistency.

Whether you’re struggling with inconsistent ball-striking or looking to simplify your swing mechanics, understanding Moe’s plane discovery offers a clearer path to better golf.

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About the Single Plane Golf Swing

The Single Plane golf swing is not a quick fix golf technique. It is a system, beginning at address, that simplifies the most important moment of the golf swing – impact.

Starting at address on two planes where the arms hang straight down at address, the Conventional golf swing is complicated. Because the arms are hanging straight down, a conventional golfer must lift the body into impact creating stress on the back.

This upward movement to accommodate the two planes is unnecessary.

The Single Plane Golf swing simplifies the golf swing by eliminating the need for the upward movement by starting and impacting on the same plane.

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If you don’t know about Mo Nororman, you need to. Today, we’re going to talk about Mo Nororman. It’s not a method, it’s a discovery. I’m going to show you today how Mo Nororman discovered his single plane swing. Welcome to the channel. Today, listen, I talk about Monora’s golf swing. It’s what I teach. It’s the single plane golf swing, but it’s not a method. And people talk about swing methods a lot because they talk about the idiosyncrasies of hitting a golf ball. Where do you place your hands? Where do you place your feet? How much rotation do you have? You know, at the end of the day, what’s going to come down to you hitting a golf ball? Well, is how well you get to impact. Do you get the club to impact? The reason Mo Nor Norman is regarded as the greatest ball striker that’s ever played the game, not by me, but by tour players around the world, even guys like Tiger Woods, Ken Venturi, Lee Trovino, these guys regarded Mo as such a great ball striker. Why? Because he got the club to impact more consistently than anybody else. Now, good players get the club to impact. Mo’s not the only one. He was just extremely good at it. So, the question has to become, why was he so good at it? What made him so good at it? Was it that he hit a million golf balls? Well, that’s part of the reason. I mean, he hit a lot of golf balls, but the real reason is is founded in biomechanics. The club has to move a certain way. You can move the club that way. You can move the club just like Mo Norman if you want to. All of us can, but the club moves a certain way and the body moves a certain way. And if we do a certain thing and we do it consistently, we going to get we get consistent results. So the question becomes from a biomechanical perspective which was what I like to discuss is how does Mo Nororman the positions he put his body in produce consistent impact results and what did he do to do that and what it comes down to is the discovery that Mo made that if he puts his body in a particular way positions he gets a consistent result. It’s it comes down to it’s that simple. You can do it. I can do it. Anybody here can do this if we position ourselves the same way which has been my foundation of my teaching over my over the years is copy mo Norman because you copy what he’s doing you get consistent results now you can violate those principles and if you start violating those principles you add more motion you can reduce your consistency so I try to stick to some basic principles of discovery the other thing I want to talk about too is the causal approach of the way I look at the golf swing if you’re slicing the golf ball if you’re hooking the golf ball If you’re not hitting it solid, there’s a cause of it. In other words, you’re not trying to fix the problem of slice. You’re trying to find the cause of what’s slicing it and fix that. And that’s where most people get get in trouble. They they slice when they close the face. Well, that might not be why you’re slicing it, right? So, so I what I want to talk about today is is what Moormer discovered. Now, the thing that you see in Mo’s swing, we can take a look at it here, is there is some basic things that Mo did that might look idiosyncratic to you. Let me let me kind of go through these things. And and this it it’s it’s it’s to you it’s going to like, well, why doesn’t everybody do it this way? Why are tour players not doing this? All good players want to get the club to impact. The question is, what’s the easiest way to do it? I don’t look at other tour players very often. I look at what their ability to get to impact consistently and what you see is swing plane. You see you see plane and impact. So you see them get there. Sometimes it’s more complicated than others. So what Mo figured out was that if you set up to a golf ball and we know at impact we have to have tilt of the body, right? So all good players have a particular amount of tilt about 25 degrees of tilt. So we have to have some tilt. We have to have rotation. We have to have rotation of the body. So, we got tilt, rotation, arm in flexion, and the hand back of the hand to the target. So, look, I’m I’m giving you I’m lining up the things that I want to be in place to get to impact. So, let’s go through those things because impact is the objective here. How do we get to impact? And then a second objective that is add speed to this, right? So, I got my address position. I want to I want to make sure I have tilted impact. I want to make sure my hands are the target. I want to put my trail hand. This arm needs to be bent. So, this is going to be bent. I want rotation of the body. And look, that’s where I want to be at impact. Just like this. I want to come down and go right to this spot at impact every single time. If I can do this every single time, I can strike strike a golf ball the same way every single time, which is the definition of a good ball striker, hitting a golf ball the same way every single time. We’ll look at that address position one more time. Tilt flexion, hand to the target, alignment, arm bent, tilt to the body. So now you’re seeing how the club is planing at impact. Look at the plane of the club lining up with my trail arm. So Mo figured out, and this is what he discovered, was well, heck, if that’s where I want to be at impact, why not start really close to that? And he put the club back a little bit. And the reason he put the club back is because there’s more rotation at impact than there is at the start. So he would start the club back and this allowed him to orient. Mo would tell me all the time, orientation is very important. So you he would orient his body, orient his arms, orient the rotation of the the arm, orient the hands in a position at the start that made this and that easier. sound too simple, I think, but he made he made the starting place, the back swing, and the down swing easier to get to impact. That’s that’s that’s the foundation of what Monorman figured out. But I want to show you something about one that does that. It’s what I what we call swing plane. This club has a plane. This driver is long. It’s I don’t know 30 what is it? 30 43 in long or 44 in long. So, we got this long driver with very little loft. That is the plane. This driver, it’s not designed to be struck like this. It’s not designed to be struck like this. It’s designed to be struck like this. So, what I want to do is I want to take the driver, put it on plane. Now, watch when I go back and I go back. This plane right here will be a mirror image of that plane right here. It didn’t do this. It didn’t do that. That is a mirror image of that plane. Why? Well, because if I’m moving this club this direction on plane, it’s the least amount of effort and rotation and force to get the club back down to impact. The shaft has to do less of this. The club has to do less rotation, less torque. This is the most efficient way to go from address impact. And that’s why we reference swing plane a lot. If you take the club and you have it across the line, which is not on plane, this club has to reroute itself to come back down. It has to move more. It has the shaft has to flex in different angles which makes the consistency factor go way down. So Mo’s discovery was, hey, and it comes down to as simple as this. It’s going to sound way too simple. Why don’t you start very similar to where impact is take the club back on plane and right back down on plane. That’s it. And then add acceleration to that. So what you get is a starting plane that looks like this. Start where the club’s going to impact on the plane. Plane it on the back. Return it to plane. And then just release it. You’re actually going to release it on plane as well. And you fire a golf ball out like this. And it becomes a plane situation on both sides. So you have address plane, back swing plane, bouncing plane, impact. Now, the body, because you’re referencing the plane the whole time, the body is moving the most efficient way possible. It It’s basically making space for the plane so you can accelerate it. So, you’re basically just accelerating the club. You’re stabilizing it. That’s what the body is doing. It’s stabilizing this rotation, allowing the club to move on plane. That’s Mo’s discovery. What I hear so many people discuss is, well, if it’s so great, why isn’t everybody doing it this way? And the answer to that is everybody’s swinging the club on plane. All good players have to get the club on plane. Whether it’s Tiger Woods, whether it’s anybody you see on tour, Scotty Sheffler, you know, everybody everybody focuses on Scotty’s feet moving around. Watch the club. It does a really nice job of getting on plane up and down. So the guy getting the club on plane, getting to impact is the focus of a golf swing. If you’re not focusing on getting to impact and working towards impact, you’re really not doing your swing a favor. you’re not really doing much good, but I’m always helping people find the easiest way to get to impact, which is what Mo Norman figured out. So, give it a shot. Give yourself a a chance. As Mo would say, always give yourself a chance. The way Mo gave himself his best chance was he started and impact on the same plane. Hope that helps understand a little bit about what Mo’s discovery was and how you can learn to hit a golf ball better. Click the bell icon, give me a thumbs up. I’ll see you next video.