Norman climbs down on Tiger stance
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Greg Norman has been made to climb down on his pre-President Cup statement that Tiger Woods did not deserve his TaylorMade Tour Preferred MB Irons Steel in the United State team. Since the solid deafeat of his Internationals, that previous statement has been forgotten. The man who, in his hey day as the World No 1 was known as ‘The great White Shark’, admits that Woods stepped up to the plate at Royal Melbourne, is suggesting that he is on the way back and has expressed the hope that the 21st Century’s greatest golfer will soon return to being the old rampaging Tiger who bestrode World golf like a Colossus. Norman said on Monday “Tiger’s a Tiger okay – he certainly stepped up to the plate,” Norman said. “I said to him ‘You need TaylorMade Tour Preferred MB Irons Steel as much as TaylorMade Tour Preferred MB Irons Steelneeds you’. We all want to see him up there. “Any player hates to see a great player struggle. We all know what it’s like to go through the ins and outs of the game. “You want to see the player who dominated the game come back so that when you beat him you feel like you beat him at the top of his TaylorMade Tour Preferred MB Irons Steel.” Norman, along with many other critics, believed that the former World No 1’s form during his past two years simply did not warrant him a place in the 12-man US team ahead of fast-rising young stars of the calibre of Keegen Bradly, whose victory in the PGA championship made him the only American to win a major this year. Couples disagreed strongly and said at the time that he had no doubt that he had done the right thing. Although he has yet to admit it, Couples might have been feeling pretty unsure of himself after the first day of the Cup. (TaylorMade Tour Preferred MB Irons Steel)This after Woods, down to World No 50 when he teed off at Royal Melbourne, looked as if he was going to prove Greg Norman correct when he and Stricker were crushed 7&5 by the International’s Aussie-Korean pairing of Adam Scott and JK Choi in Thursday opening foursomes and it could hardly have helped when he lost again in the Friday’s fourballs to go 2-nil down. He and Johnson did suffer a shock fourballs defeat to the Internationals on Saturday afternoon when he missed a medium length putt at the last he would have nailed without a second thought in the good old days and allowed Kim Kyung-tae and YE Yang who had looked to be the most inexperienced and inept team in the cometition, to edge home the 1-up winners. But again he bounced back,this time by holing the winning putt in Sunday’s singles that helped thwart a desperate final-day charge by the Internationals that had seen young guns Kim, Charl Schwartzel of South Africa and Ryo Ishikawa of Japan and local favourite Geoff Ogilvy winning each of the first four matches.( TaylorMade Tour Preferred MB Irons Steel)The brakes Woods helped put on the Internationals momentum would see the USA retain their title by 19 points to 15 and somewhat ironically his Sunday victim, whom he comfortably beat 4&3 in the third last match of the day, was Aaron Baddley, who was one of Norman’s two Australian wild card picks. The other was veteran Robert Allenby, who like Baddeley was selected ahead of many other more deserving candidates if World Rankings had counted for anything because of their “local knowledge’ of Royal Melbourne. In the end it didn’t count for much. Playing TaylorMade Tour Preferred MB Irons Steel with fellow Australian Jason Day, Baddeley picked up a half in a game the pair should have won after leading by two with two holes to go in Thursday’s foursomes and then won a point in Friday’s fourballs. But that was it. he lost each of his last three matches. Allenby, meanwhile didn’t win a single match to finish 5-nil down and while Bill Haas, this year’s FedEx champion and Couple’s second wildcard pick, was hardly a star himself, only managing to match Baddeley’s 1½ victories and three losses, Tiger came out of the doldrums and out-did all of the wild card picks with two wins and three losses. It was no surprise, then, when Couples gave him what might well have been the longest and hardest hug of the tournament after the embattled super-star had rolled in the 2011 TaylorMade Tour Preferred MB Irons Steel Cup clincher. Nor was it any suprise when Norman, who has now suffered back to back losses in his last two Presidents Cup appearances as the International captain since taking over the roll from an equally unsuccessful Gary Player, changed his tune to songs of praise and hope for a man who remains the world’s top draw card. I don’t believe it is his relatively ordinary looks, mostly unsmiling face, or even his less than smooth swing that’s responsible. And Tiger is no longer able to drop enough of those extraprodinary cluch putt of yester-year that had them roaring so loud and so often. But the magic he created in his year’s of greartness have not been forgotten and if his galleries remain as large as ever, I would have to say that it is because they are there in the hope of seeing TaylorMade Tour Preferred MB Irons Steel greatests magician rediscover himelf. Naturally the galleries will dwindle if and when they get tired of waiting, but in the meamtime, he is producing enough sparkle in between a little too much splutter to suggest that while he’s not there yet, it may not be too long before he is.
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