The doctors may have declared Greg Norman robust after his shoulder injury but The Shark still considers The Lake unfit for the Australian Open.
“With greens like these, it’s going to be a bit difficult to have a golf championship” Norman said.
Two months ago, the 55 year old golfer had to undergo an arthroscopic procedure to deal with a fragmentary discomfort in his right shoulder. Norman explained his decision to continue with the operation and said that it was necessary
for him to take care of the injury soon. The newly married golfer, although a part time player, further added that the injury was keeping him from performing at a level far below his standard.
As far as his schedule for December is concerned, the 55 year old has plans to first annihilate his competition at the Australian Open from the 2nd of December till the 5th and then host the Shark Shootout in Florida next week.
His agenda was simple: rule the leaderboard and prove that he can still gather enough galleries with his play. But the slow greens of the Australian Open had other plans for the golfer’s precise striking abilities.
According to the statistics, Norman carded an unbelievable 74 at the first round and held a depressing double bogey on the 7th hole. The first round thus blew the Shark to a new level of anxiety as he was able to collect only three
birdies at holes number 3, 14 and 16.
Now with a 155.56 percent green in regulation from round 1, Norman carried out a rather unflattering appraisal of The Lakes and concluded that the greens were snail paced. According to reports, he said that with these greens, the
golfers have to hit the ball really hard which is a bit too hard for him.
Norman said that regarding his precision, the Lakes had forced the $ 1,500,000 field to perform with a certain type of line and speed to get comfortable. As for him, he’s just not that type and the greens aren’t his cup of tea.
“This is the slowest field I have putted in Australia, I just don’t like these type of greens” Norman said.
And his uneasiness was validated when Norman scored a 70 at the third round of the Open after carding a decent score of 69. The golfer from Australia has thus recorded 213 strokes in total and is standing on T 33 along with Peter
Fowler and Michael Long on the leader board after 18 rounds.
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