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Article: IN HIS SHADOW: VETERANS; GREG NORMAN; Window seems to be closing.(SPECIAL)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- August 14, 2002
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Byline: Patrick Reusse; Staff Writer
A look at the top five 40-plus players chasing Tiger Woods.
Greg Norman's last victory on the PGA or European tour occurred at the NEC World Series of Golf in 1997. The next year, he missed six months because of left shoulder surgery. He then had arthroscopic hip surgery in June 2000.
Norman returned to the NEC event in Akron, Ohio, last August, and there was a brief flicker of the old magic.
"This is as confident and as good as I've felt in two years," Norman said after opening with a 65 and tying for the lead. But he followed that with a 71, a 74 and an 80 and finished 24 strokes back. Tiger Woods ...