Geoff Ogilvy dusts the rust off at the Australian Open 2010
Geoff Ogilvy shot a superb minus 11 to rule the Australian Open past a time when golf had became too much for him.
A measure of the amount of oxygen in a patient’s blood is known as oxygen saturation while the highest limit of flowing currently is known as current saturation and when Geoff Ogilvy feels he’s played enough golf... then that’s
golf saturation.
Ogilvy has collected a total of 8 victories in his career and won the 2006 US Open title to grab more than $US22 million as prize money. The thirty three year old played so much golf in the recent 2 years that his passion had turned
toxic for him. Ogilvy, the former world number three, said that the years 2009 and 2010 made him feel sick of a game that had turned him in to a multi dollar millionaire.
However, the slow rusting came under control when the thirty three year old decided to take a 6 week break before the Australian Open. The recharge worked and Ogilvy shot a 4 under par 68 in the opening round of the Open.
The golfer thus managed to card a 65 in the second round and with a four under carded in the opening, a new minus 11 placed the thirty three year old golfer in a good place to surge ahead.
According to the leader board statistics, Matt Jones stands at the runner up position with a difference of one stroke from the leader. As for Jones’ game, he faltered a little in the first round of the tournament and carded a 70
and slowly caught hold of the game to post an impressive 64.
The Australian Open commenced from the 2nd of December and continued till the 5th of this month. According to news, the $1,500,000 field is being defended by Adam Scott who is currently standing at the 16th place tied with a minus
3 between eleven players. The defending champion collected 75 and a 66 in the first round of the Australian Open.
The all star field was also supposedly threatened by “The Shark”, Greg Norman but unfortunately, this doesn’t seem like the case. According to his scorecard, Norman is currently tied at the thirty eighth place with nine more players
in contention. Shark’s worst round was the first one where he carded a 74 but he managed to play decently at the second round when he scored a decent 69.
As for Ogilvy, he stepped away from golf when ‘a lot of everything’ was slowly creeping up on him. He said that the travel and the game both had become too much for him and he felt like throwing it all away all at once. But the
6 week revival did its trick and directed the thirty three year old to play an impressive record of 77.78 greens in regulation and a 1.64 putts per green in regulation at the 2010 Australian Open second round.
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