Shark: "He is a better driver of the golf ball than I ever was."
/If you ever watched Greg Norman drive the ball in his long run atop the game, you know what a compliment this is. From an AAP story on The Australian website:
"I think he'll go on and win more majors than any other Australian golfer,'' said two-time major champion Norman.
"Everybody questioned whether he could do it. We all knew it. The players know it.
"I think he is a better driver of the golf ball than I ever was. Nobody gives him that recognition.
Michael Clayton captures the mood in Australia following Adam Scott's win:
Some golfers come back from traumatic experiences at the end of major championships and others do not. The question sure to have haunted Scott was into which camp would he fall.
His putter is always accused of being his weakness and there can be no question he is relatively poor on the greens if the number of putts holed by his contemporaries is the measure. A few years ago he reverted to the awful broomstick putter, but the missed putts at the end at Lytham showed that it was far from foolproof.
AP's Dennis Passa on the reaction Down Under:
Commuters cheered on buses, and car horns tooted. Even a radio interview with the prime minister on the national broadcaster was interrupted to give updates on the Masters – well before the result was known.
Golf fans everywhere in this sports-mad country rejoiced.
Shopkeepers at Peregian Beach, near a resort course designed by Adam's father, Phil Scott, spoke of the pride of having a Masters champion from their neck of the woods.
