The Graves Golf Academy founded by brothers Todd and Tim Graves helps golfers play better by teaching the single plane golf swing made famous by their friend, the late Moe Norman, considered the world’s greatest ball-striker.

After eight years of operations, Graves Golf Academy now operates schools at Coffee Creek in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and Eagle Creek in Orlando, Florida. GGA also offers special instruction sessions throughout the year in various locations in other parts of the country.

Students can choose either a Three-day school, a Five-day Build Your Game Camp and the newest addition – a two-day alumni school where students from previous three-day and five-day schools can come back for a refresher. The three-day school is set up in an outdoor classroom-like setting. About one-third of your time is spent watching Todd and Tim demonstrating and teaching proper single axis swing techniques and the other two-thirds is spent hitting balls under supervision.

At each school, each participant receives a student learning manual, personalized video instruction with Todd (to take with them), optional club fitting, and lunch each day with the GGA staff in which many personal stories of time spent with Moe are shared. Some attendees of the three-day schools have asked for a longer school in which they can come to a specific location, spend up to a week, and have an intense NG/single axis learning experience.  

The five-day program has been tailored to do exactly that. In addition to its instructional sessions, GGA offers a full line of Instructional DVD's to instruct students in the technique of Moe Norman.  They include:

• The Total Game Overview
• Seven Principles of Golf Improvement series
• Troubles and Solutions
• Mind of Moe Norman  
• The Moe Norman Clinic

In addition to GGA's selection of instructional DVD's, the Academy also offers custom fit golf clubs and accessories that are perfect for the Moe Norman single axis swing.  These products include:

• The "Feeling of Greatness^TM" Training Grip & Club
• The Leverage Bag
• The Alignment and Ball Position Trainer
• The GGA Grip
• The Eyeline putting alignment mirror
• The LineMUp Pro ball marking tool
  
• The GGA Complete Putting System
  

These items as well as the instructional DVD's are available on the GGA online store.

Prior to launching GGA, Todd Graves was employed by Natural Golf Corporation as an instructor / tour player from 1994-1998, was a member of the Canadian PGA Tour in 1995, and the Asian Golf Tour in 1991.   His close relationship with Moe Norman led to Todd's nickname as "Little Moe."   Todd is a renowned expert on the single axis swing as well as general golf instruction.    He has been featured in Golf Digest, Natural Golfer Magazine, Golf for Women, and has been featured in more than six non-GGA instructional golf films.

Importantly, however, is the phenomenon of Moe Norman and the golf legend's impact in Graves Golf Academy.  Moe Norman was a Canadian legend and a man revered by golf professionals all over the world as one of the greatest ball-strikers in the history of golf, and certainly one of the most eccentric and colorful characters in the annals of sport. Moe’s self-taught golf swing was called weird, unorthodox, different, but it was highly efficient, amazingly accurate and freakishly accurate.

The numbers tell the tale: With 17 holes in one, three scores of 59, four scores of 61, and more than 30 course records during his career, Moe dominated Canadian golf through the mid 20th century. Among his many victories are two Canadian Amateurs, two CPGA Championships and five CPGA Senior Championships along with multiple victories in the Ontario, Manitoba and Saskatchewan Opens.  His legend was solidified by his non-traditional behavior both on and off the course. During tournaments, Moe would hit drivers off of 6” tees, soda bottles, and play par 4 holes ‘backward’, hitting a wedge off the tee and a driver onto the green and still make par or better. After a brief stint on the U.S. PGA Tour, these antics earned Moe a ‘dressing down’ by some members of the tour, and he left to never play in the U.S. competitively again.

Thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, throughout his lifetime, saw Moe's genius with a golf club. During one of his clinics, Moe hit over 1,500 drivers in a little over seven hours, all of which where within 15 yards of one another. It was this accuracy that eventually earned Moe the respect and notoriety that true genius deserves.  Moe passed away September 4, 2004 at the age of 74, with huge crowds coming to Kitchener, Ontario, Canada to pay their respects to the legend.

Perhaps the greatest testament to his growing legend is the major feature film in development about Moe Norman - written by Barry Morrow, Oscar winning screenwriter for the movie Rain Man, entitled Dance The Green.   At the Graves Golf Academy they teach you to Swing like Moe - emphasizing the development of a sound, easy, repeatable, powerful single plane swing based on Moe’s famous golf swing.