American golf writers are a rum bunch. Here, for instance, is Damon Hack, late of the New York Times and currently berthed at Sports Illustrated:
Norman could be on the verge of turning the sports world upside down and righting a dozen wrongs from his career. A Norman win would arguably top Tiger Woods’s U.S. Open triumph from a month ago, and it might even surpass Jack Nicklaus’s 1986 Masters triumph at age 46. Nicklaus hadn’t won a major in six years when he shot 30 in the gloaming on the back nine at Augusta National and won his 18th professional major title. Norman, seven years older than Nicklaus was then, hasn’t won a major in 15 years.
Arguably better than Tiger at Torrey Pines? This is madness: there’s no comparison. Surpass Nicklaus in 1986? Why, yes it would.
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