And how close was it to being a fairytale ending for the White Shark Greg Norman, who very nearly proved dreams still come true at willhill.com.
At the tender age of 53 Greg went in to the last round at Birkdale with a two shot lead with Kc Choi and last year’s winner Harrington in third place but with this course and the weather nothing could be taken for granted.
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With the entire Golfing world and sportsbooks like www.willhill.com willing Mr Norman(me included) on to take the Claret jug and break a record of being the oldest man to win a major (the current record stands at 48 years old) everything seemed to go wrong for the Aussie in the run in.
Bogeying hole after hole and when Padraig Harrington started to find his putting arm there only looked like being one winner and has joined only a handful of players to win back to back majors and the first Brit to do it in nearly 100 years.
Greg Norman will next week get a second chance though when he takes part in the Veteran tour match.
But to finish I would like to say with Tiger winning the last major injured and Harrington winning this one with a wrist injury I say get your money on whoever isn’t 100% for the next major as if any of the last 2 big golf tournaments has anything to go by you will be on to a winner at will hill.com!
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