Single Plane Swing Verification

After years of experimenting with hybrids due to an auto accident where I sustained three upper neck spinal issues, I can honest attest to the Fact that having learned the Natural Golf Swing in 2002 definitely gave me the base fundamentals to continue golf with variations. Those variations have been with oversize grips on hybrids that took the place of my irons, except for the wedge use in the short game near the green.
Now, after careful study of the Natural Golf Swing again on websites with Moe Norman demonstrating and discussing his swing style, I discovered actually how he was gripping the club. I have also kept in touch with a Palm Springs, California Site featuring the Moe Noman Natural Golf Swing which is the Single Plane Swing Moe brought to golf.
Considering my fundamentals are taken from the Natural Golf Swing, I decided to try hitting standard irons again. This time I would employ the grip that I have seen from a Golf Academy based in Oklahoma and a video I watched on the internet of Moe explaining his swing while he hit golf shots. Because my impact zone was the same as Moe's explanation - Not Turning the Clubface Over through Impact - I adapted to the irons within 12 golf shots, a perfect dozen for me! I just never knew this actual grip from my former days with Natural Golf. At the time in 2002 larger than normal grips were featured and a ten finger grip was the standard.
Moe did not actually use this style when he set his records in competitive golf. He apparently switched in the early 1990's when Natural Golf first came into the picture. I used the grip described on the Single Plane site of the Natural Golf Swing from the Palm Springs, California school and the 6 iron I was first using stayed steady through impact providing a straight flight at about 148 yards. Of course one has to keep in mind that I am hitting shots now in 38 - 42 degree weather in Wisconsin and the golf balls are kept in the trunk of my car. I took some golf balls from home the other day and the same shots are in the 160 range with a straight flight.
I figure that isn't too bad for a guy who is 61 years old in December and has four spinal issues, lower and upper regions. Restricted mobility - YES - using the Single Plane swing, however, that Moe Norman brought into golf works for me. My other 'research swings' for the sake of a name work too but those are simply variations I discovered when I was introduced to the oversized grips and following new injuries and decreased mobility. If I had seen the actual grip Moe used with standard clubs I may never have found other variations so someday they may be useful.
I would reserve them for fundraising perhaps where baseball, hockey & non golfing folks can participate in a skills challenge / target hitting venue. As for me, I am very thankful to have found this pertinent information about the grip using standard irons with the Natural Golf Single Plane swing. I will now go on to perfect this proven swing style. Soon I will have a utube video showing the swing too.
I have been emailing Jerry Martin in Palm Springs who teaches the swing and keeping in touch with the academy he is affiliated with based in Oklahoma, the Graves Golf Academy. Now I really feel I am back to golf better than I have been because for me the hybrids were a fine alternative, but for many people they may still not be the answer for them to a proven solid shot making routine.
Being from Wisconsin and having raised in Illinois, I can only wonder how great it will be to travel to Palm Springs and consider being part of that golf academy there in the collllllddddd winter months. This could be the best get-a-way too considering all the other sites to visit in California. I know Palm Springs is just two hours from San Diego.
Now if I can just interest my oldest daughter and her friends about this swing style and Palm Springs, get them interested in golf, then I would most likely have to travel there more often especially from November thru April. Maybe from this point forward I can develop a golf get-a-way in Palm Springs, CA for people I meet back here in Wisconsin so they can enjoy this as winter activity with plenty to do there in assuredly warmer weather!
Bye for now. I will keep blogging on both the winter escape and the single plane swing as I go off to now discover what type of iron works best for me. Do take the time to look up those sites or ask me at scottyjohnd@hotmail.com.