Moe and Me: Encounters with Moe Norman, Golf's Mysterious Genius

Moe's story is a very interesting one , he was almost one of the guys I personally took up for in school . Not that he couldn't handle it but the amount of people in the world who look down on others is a plague . I recommend this if you want to read about someone who was different in so many ways yet so very gifted . His ball striking ability was off the charts when it come to golf , I'd take his game any day of the week .RIP Moe

First off I am not a big book reader but if it has to do with Moe Norman I will do my best getting my hands on it. The book is not a lesson book on how to swing like Moe but if you want an understanding of who Moe Norman was I think he did a real nice respectable job on it I enjoyed it immensely. It does add to knowing who Murray "Moe" Norman really was also it was possibly the best that I read on Moe. Yes there are story's that we all have heard of but some with a few twist that I even thought could have been the reason for other player actions and one of them seems to have been true. I will leave that for you to read. I am glad and would buy the book again. I am well pleased with it. I am so glad Lorne Rubenstein who is the Author of this book titled once again "Moe and Me". He kind of fills in a lot of the blanks on the Moe Norman story's that all of us have heard while we have been following Moe for these years 10 yrs for me. At first you will learn how and where Lorne met Moe or as he puts it "when he encountered Moe" for the first time when he was 13 yrs old, way back the the early 60's. So now this is where he starts and goes though all the years he knew Moe all the way to Moe's death. He shares story's from friends and family of Moe's. So again if you like Moe you will Like this book. Can't go wrong. John (Swingmachine).

I was disappointed in the book. Rubenstein portrays himself as having an ulterior motive of dissecting the mind of Moe for his own gain, be it personally as a golfer or professionally as a writer. There is a whole chapter where Rubenstein is fascinated as to whether or not Moe is autistic, and even considers sending him to a shrink before his conscious finally gets the better of him. Perhaps he only wanted to include material pertaining to golf, but Rubenstein did not seem like much of a friend to Moe. Every encounter involved Rubenstein wanting to find out something about Moe so he could write about it or apply it to his own golf game (which he comes to write excessively about, especially in the final chapters). Unlike a true friendship, nothing was reciprocated between Rubenstein and Moe. Moe would give and give in the form of swing advice and personal philosophy, and Rubenstein would leach and leach. No wonder Moe felt like he was being judged all the time, guys like Rubenstein must have only perpetuated those feelings!Nonetheless, there are some amazing stories about certain instances Rubenstein shared with Moe, thus making him the only link to such stories. If only there were more of those stories and less layman psychoanalysis going on in the book, I might have enjoyed it more. I understand that the book is titled "Moe & Me," but Rubenstein focuses way too much on the "& Me" and not enough on the "Moe."

As a student of golf I unfortunately didn't discover the Moe swing until a year ago. I am now a convert and wanted to know more about Moe, the man himself and why he didn't achieve more success in PGA tournaments. I first read "The Feeling of Greatness" The Feeling of Greatness: The Moe Norman Story  and then "Moe and Me". Both are excellent reads and provided me with valuable insight into Moe and his career. In "Moe and Me" Lorne Rubinstein,as a journalist and psychologist covers both Moe and golf in general from both those perspectives and does so very well and in an entertaining manner. His story of Moe's encounter with Arnold Palmer on a practice range was easily worth the price of the book by itself, very humourous. Both books provide some interesting information about Moe's method. However for me this was only a minor benefit, a supplement to the considerable array of resources available from Todd Graves and the Graves Golf Academy for those wishing to understand/or learn the technical aspects of Moe's method. I highly recommend both books and Todd Graves instructional work.

I first became aware of Moe Norman by reading an article about him in a golf magazine a long time ago. It was a good article but I would have liked to learn more about Moe. This book does it!! It gives a first hand account of what Moe was like both on and off the golf course. The author did an excellent job in helping me understand why Moe acted as he did. I also appreciated how the author identified for the reader the people who accepted Moe as Moe and were always there for him. It's nice to know there are still good people out there.

I actually felt like I got to know Moe and what a man he was.

I find Moe Norman a fascinating personality in the sometimes vapid world of golf.I found this book a disappointing insight into the life of Moe Norman. It may have been the author's writing style more than the actual life discussed in between the covers. The book was organized in specific chapter-topics, but when the author would discuss a particular item, he would jump to other topics in the middle of a discusssion. For example, he'd write about a particular golf tournament Moe was playing in, and right in the middle of the tournament discussion, he'd switch to a discussion about Moe's medical conditions. Both topics worthy of discussion, but maybe not intermingled in the same chapter.Overall, the book came off as highly disorganized, and I didn't particularly care for the author's choice of words as he wrote. There was no flow to the book, and once you put the book down after a reading, it didn't cry out to you to come back for more. Quite the opposite.I would not recommend this book to anyone intersted in Moe Norman's unusual life. There are far better books out there that give much deeper insights into the spectacular golfer that Moe Norman was. He was a special talent in a difficult game, and this book did not convey any of that.Totally forgettable.

Moe Norman was, without doubt, a golfing genius whose immeasurable talent was overshadowed by misunderstanding, mistreatment and unconscionable ridicule by society and the greater majority of his peer's. Moe Norman developed and owned his unique golf swing. A simplistic, but unconventional swing, that raised him to ’legend’ status as the ’worlds greatest ball-striker.’

Worth the read if you like golf.

Good book. Interesting character. A little repetitive, in that you get a good idea of Moe's character early on in the book. However, it was still interesting to hear different people's perspective of him.An interesting book for keen golfers who may not have heard of this phenomenon previously.

great book, very moving story and lovely written by lorne rubenstein. Any golfer will love this book. a must read

I would loved to have seen Moe playing golf. Very misunderstood.Greatness comes in many disguises, looking for more books about Moe