If Norman has a solid round tomorrow but someone else wins with a heroic effort, will that someone be appropriately said to have jumped The Shark?
The pun. It burnsss.
Norman had a rough road in the last hole. He could easily have wound up in the trap on the front right of the green the way his second was carried by the wind. As it was he had a great lie for the approach shot.
Here’s hoping for another day with difficult conditions!
Amazing tournament for the Shark. I for one would love to see someone older than I win a major (as the last baseball player born before me-Julio Franco-retired last year).
Norman played well. He didn’t seem to flinch at the pressure or conditions today. Pressure increases tomorrow. There isn’t anyone near him that you would point to and say “he will run norman down”. Padraig isn’t that kind of guy nor is Choi…and of course the example is Tiger who isn’t playing yada yada yada.
The golf has been good thus far and I hope tomorrow is as exciting as Rocco’s near miss at the US Open.
Would the Shark be the oldest player ever to win a Major?
I think so…Jack won at 46 I think.
Yes. Julius Boros was 48 when he won the 1968 PGA.
In other golf news, Michelle Wie has played her best golf in years, shooting 67-65-67 to put her in second place, but was disqualified because she forgot to sign her scorecard. WTF??? What is wrong with this kid?
Here are the oldest Major winners.
Julius Boros won the PGA Championship at 48.
Jack Nicklaus won The Masters at 46.
Old Tom Morris is the oldest British Open winner at 46.
Hale Irwin won the US open at 45.
He’d certainly be the oldest player to win the Open. This list of Open records states the oldest winner of the Open was Old Tom Morris, who was 46 years old when he won in 1867. I don’t know about the US Majors.
Padraig Harrington does have some motivation to win. If he does, he joins a select club which in the last fifty years has acquired only three new members - players who have successfully defended their Open title. Only Arnold Palmer, Tom Watson and Tiger Woods have managed this in the years since 1958. Those three are golfing legends of their times, and Harrington has a chance to join them. Not even Jack Nicklaus pulled that off.
I’m pulling for Norman. Who would have predicted him at the beginning of the week? I thought he was all but a ceremonial player at this point. In a Tigerless Major, the Shark coming back out of nowhere would be a great story.
And Lee Trevino in 71-72.
OMG…Nike must want a refund in a bad way … It is if she has a mental problem that drives her to fail…
Little breezy out there, no?
Man, that has to be a record for the most ads.
They sure didn’t want to show much action, did they.
It was so slow, I was doing some chores during. Exactly what was the reason for the half hour delay at 10?
I think the backup at ten had to do with the wind across the green. The boys couldn’t get settled over their putts so they took 5 to 7 minutes per putt…and that was once they were on the green.
scary golf conditions
Oh yeah. :smack:
Who was also very well known in his day.
Still, that makes 4 in 50 years, and many a famous player - Seve Ballasteros and Nick Faldo, to name but two more - who didn’t achieve the feat.
I’m not sure who I want to win.
I would love to see Greg Norman win this. It would be one of the great sports stories of my lifetime.
I have always been a fan of his since he first came to prominence in Australia. I remember watching a tournament on TV and a spectator’s hat blew off and began to roll down the fairway. Norman chased it and took it back to the woman and had a brief chat and a laugh with her.
He has always seemed like a nice guy and never made any excuses for his supposed “choking”. Even now he can deal with being asked, “You’ve won two Opens, but you’ve frittered away five or six great chances when you’ve led going into the final round. Are you going to be able to hang on tomorrow?” without being offended.
“I can’t answer that question now,” he answered. “We’ll find out.”
<anecdote>I first saw Norman in the Queanbeyan Open in 1977. I guess he was 22 at the time. He was an imposing figure even then, and I don’t think he had won a thing at that time. My father, a good golfer, told me to “keep an eye out for this kid”. </anecdote>
What I find absolutely unconscionable about the whole thing is that she didn’t sign FRIDAY’s card. But they let her play Saturday and didn’t DQ her until AFTER that round was finished. Story doesn’t say, but I hope to hell she played Saturday at least knowing it was possible she’d be DQ’d. :mad:
I’d love to see Greg win. Think of it: winning the British open and marrying Chris Evert in the same month!
I knew I shouldn’t have publicly supported Weir. I’m like the kiss of death.