The golfer who scored 10 on one hole in The Open

The South African’s scorecard was destroyed twenty minutes later as he entered the numbers one and zero.

1-0.10. (Ten). Double figures over par .

A hole that should have taken four should have been completed by Norris with ten shots.

Sure, the fourth hole on Friday was regarded as the fifth-most challenging, and it also caused him some trouble on Thursday, but it wasn’t all that difficult.

Norris was in good fettle as he took aim at the far end of the course after three pars to begin. Then the driver’s errant lash caused the mood to become gloomy.

He was forced to fish a second ball from his bag after an ugly spray from the tee screamed out of bounds on the right.

What bunker is that, if you have to re-enter, compose yourself, and stay away from the left fairway bunker? You just landed in that bunker. You had to leave on Thursday, the one you took two.

Norris was three shots deep, three in the sand, and had 230 or so yards to the green at the time. Not particularly bad, but not catastrophic. Not yet.

The fourth shot, what was it? He explained that it “caught the lip.” Then I attempted to do the same thing and hit the same club.

He claimed to have tried to “chase something,” but three more enraged swipes later he was still in the same bunker.

He was starting to appear unlikely to ever emerge. As if this were his current life.

Finally, fueled by the fury of a man who’s world was disintegrating around him, he found just enough elevation to run away, his ball unapologetically bound 39 yards down the fairway.

Norris appeared behind it. A man who had probably forgotten what his name was, how many times he’d hit the ball, and even what hole he was in. He said, “My mind went a little numb.”

He had seven records, according to the records. 200 yards away, the pin was still in the thick end. As it turned out, fared.

The approach of Norris was successful 20 or so yards short of the left. He managed to chip to seven feet and hole the putt, but somehow he managed to gather himself.

“Shot 10. stuffed with balls. The official Open shot tracker recorded a “double bogey or worse” situation.

Norris would follow up his five-over victory with a missed cut. On the fourth of his two days on the Antrim coast, eight shots were lost.

He would have been in good shape for the weekend with a few pars. brutal .

He had to work up six to finish the fourth round on Thursday, but he caught himself and made it a birdie.

After the turn, he had three more birdies, including one from 30 feet on the final, which at least repaired some of the damage, at least on his scorecard.

He resisted, “I actually played quite well apart from one hole.” “I was happy with the way I fought back after one hole,” he said.

You never know what will happen if you take that hole out this week.

Given that he missed three shots on the fourth hole of the 2019 Portrush Open, Norris would have to have it torn apart.

But it is obvious that the South African man has a lot going for him.