Tim O’Connor
Tim O'Connor is an award-winning journalist who has written about golf for thirty years and plays the game avidly. Tim is the editor of Single Plane Golfer magazine published by the Graves Golf Academy. Tim has written three previous golf books, including The Feeling of Greatness: The Moe Norman Story, and he edited The Final Missing Piece of Ben Hogan's Secret Puzzle. Tim has written for GOLF, Golf World, LINKS, Golfweek, SCOREGolf, and Golf Canada. He was golf columnist for The Financial Post and covered golf for the radio division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Tim was named International Network of Golf Reporter of the Year three straight years (1994-96). He was music critic for the Canadian Press news agency and has done communications consulting for the golf industry. Tim lives in Rockwood, Ontario, with his wife Sandy and sons, Corey and Sean.
Books by Tim O’Connor
After twenty years, golfing coach Tim O'Connor returns with a second edition of his biography of golfing great Moe Norman, The Feeling of Greatness. O'Connor reflects on his and others' relationships with the Norman, and deeply explores the impact and legacy of such an amazing man and athlete.
In The Feeling of Greatness, second edition, golf coach Tim O'Connor updates his previous biography of the late great, Canadian golfer Moe Norman, who was famous for introducing the single plane golf swing. This edition includes new anecdotes about Moe both on and off the course by golfers, journalists, friends, and family, and offers a more in-depth portrait of the man and golfer, especially in the last years of his life. O'Connor shares with readers his personal and professional friendships with Moe along the way. Some twenty years later, from a distanced perspective, O'Connor sets the record straight about Norman, promotes his legacy as the legendary golfer he was, and reflects on life lessons learned from their association over the years.
Legend Moe Norman wowed the world of golf with the stunning accuracy and consistency of his game, and introduced his Single Plane Swing as a revolutionary coaching method to the golfing community. This in-depth biography of the phenomenal mentor and athlete, Norman, is told by his biographer Tim O'Connor.
The mysterious and reclusive genius Moe Norman is acknowledged as the best ball-striker in the history of golf by many of the game's greats.
The Single Plane Golf Swing: Play Better Golf the Moe Norman Way reveals the secrets of the swing that enabled him to hit the ball solidly with unerring accuracy and consistency-every time. Norman's simple, efficient, and easily understood Single Plane Swing has improved the games of thousands of golfers. Golf professional Todd Graves, known as 'Little Moe" and regarded as the world authority on Norman's swing, comprehensively teaches readers the mechanics, drills, and feelings of the Single Plane Swing that Moe called "The Feeling of Greatness." Graves shares Norman's brilliant insights and liberating approach to the game and demonstrates why the conventional "tour" swing is too complex and frustrating for the majority of amateurs.
Illustrated with more than 300 photographs and written with Tim O'Connor, Norman's biographer, the book also engagingly tells Norman's bittersweet life story and explores the teacher-student bond forged between Norman and his protégé Graves.