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Date Posted: 18:27:40 11/16/01 Fri
Author: Rob
Subject: Re: Moe is a legend
In reply to: Ty 's message, "Moe is a legend" on 17:36:25 11/16/01 Fri

As much as I'd like to see him in the hall of fame, there is no valid reason to put him there. In which category would you place him? Moe may have been the first to use single-axis golf but Jack Kuykendall brought it to the masses, followed by various spinoff companies. Natural Golf and others each teach a method similar to Moe's. Moe did not sell it to the public. It was not his intent.

To get into the hall of fame Moe really had to make it big on the American PGA Tour. This did not happen due to several reasons. Talent obviously wasn't the problem. Unfortunately Moe played in an era where political correctness did not exist. People who were different like he was were laughed at and mistreated. The boys on the tour at that time didn't like the way he acted, dressed or physically appeared.

Certain pros at that time confronted Moe at a tournament and basically gave him a dressing down telling to act like the model pro of that day. Moe, who was extremely shy and would often lose tournaments so he wouldn't have to make acceptance speeches, was hurt terribly by this and fled the tour.

Personally I think they saw him being a possible threat to their future earnings and took advantage of him. I would like to know who these esteemed pros of the time were that gave Moe a hard time so they could be revealed for the type of people they really were/are. Whatever the case was he probably wouldn't have had the mental game to last on the tour. Today might have been another story however.

I like Moe and am very happy to see him get the recognition he is getting now but I can't see him, for any reason, going into the hall of fame other than the one in which he is currently a member.

Regards.

Rob

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