I recently posted a video on youtube discussing Moe’s address position and the importance of Shaft lean into impact. I mentioned the importance of taking a divot and one of the comments on the post mentioned the following:

“But MOE never took a divot, or very rarely did he. He even said it himself”.

I replied: “Moe took divots albeit shallow. As Moe said “Bacon strips, not pork chops”.

Then he replied:

“Todd Graves – maybe sometimes but I can show you a video where he said he doesn’t take divots and that he could , “ put your Casio watch on the ground and I could hit off of it and not break the grass.” Also, I have seen many of his hitting clinics on video and he rarely ever takes a divot. He said he would sweep the grass.”

Let’s set the record straight.

While Moe might have said he didn’t take a divot, what he felt he did and what he actually did were quite different.  I have not doubt that Moe could have hit a golf ball off of a Casio watch face.  This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t take a divot.  Moe’s swing was perfectly shallow into impact.  He compressed the ball perfectly.  Yet, when the ball was on tight turf, he took a shallow divot.  Here are some pics that tell the story.

Once again, there is a difference between feel and real and you must be cautious between what you hear Moe say and what is actually happening.