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  • 1978 Festival of Sydney Open

    Big-hitting Queenslander Greg Norman leap-frogged through the field with a record-shattering 9-under-par 64 to win the $20,000 Caltex Festival of Sydney Open Golf Tournament at The Lakes.

    Venue:The Lakes Golf Club
    Where:Eastlakes, New South Wales, Australia

    Norman's Conquest With A Record 64

    Big-hitting Queenslander Greg Norman leap-frogged through the field with a record-shattering 9-under-par 64 to win the $20,000 Caltex Festival of Sydney Open Golf Tournament at The Lakes yesterday.

    The Norman conquest 1978 style scattered the field like ninepins as he went surging past overnight leader Ian Stanley who had the record at 66 on Friday.

    Norman's golfing blitz shot him from equal fifth when the round started to a comfortable three-stroke victory over Stanley.

    Few greater rounds of golf, either for the booming power from the tees or contrasting oiled delicacy on the greens, have been seen by this correspondent.

    It was the most under par Norman has ever been for one round. The corn-haired Queenslander finished with 14-under-par 278. Those 72 holes included only three bogeys. All else wilted beside his last-round blitz.

    Stanley, equal leader the first day, and sole leader the following two, had par 73 and was left behind. To think that Stanley never had worse than a par round in his 281 and only collected second placing is quite soul-destroying.

    Jack Newton was third, a stroke behind, after an extremely gallant 69. He had food poisioning and was nauseated to the point where, at the 14th hole, he spent several minutes vomiting at the lake's edge while the wildlife scattered.

    What a stupendous start this is to 1978 for Norman, the younf man with all the looks of Jack Nicklaus, and maybe a smudge of the same talent. He has returned from his month-long holiday in England, where he was in the fields of Hampshire with his game tingling at a fresh pitch.

    This was his fourth 72-hole tournament victory in the last 14 months. He also won the West Lakes Classic, the Kuzoh International in Japan and Martini International in England.

    Norman said the fact that he was in the same group yesterday with Newton had a lot to do with his record scoring.

    "We were urging each other on with all the birdies we were having. The further I went the surer I was that the winner would come from our group. I reckon if Jack and I had been in a four-ball we'd have finished about 16 under."

    Norman birdied the second, fifth and eighth on the way out, then ther 10th, 11th, 14th and 16th and eagled the 17th. Two shots absolutely stand out.

    Down the 14th, a hole that figured so much this week and will in every tournament played at The Lakes, he crunched a 3-wood to the heart of the fairway. He then struck a 7-iron firmly and sweetly over the water to just two meters from the pin. Here was an eagle chance, but his putt hit the left-hand back edge of the hole and frustratingly spun out.

    On the 17th, Norman again faced an eagle, but this time his putt from eight meters went in, again spun out to the edge, but then dropped in. That extraordinary putt seemed the ball game.

    Stanley was not completely unhappy having been run down by Norman. "I played pretty solidly today under pressure and I know now that I can put four fairly good rounds together."

    1976

    • West Lakes Classic

    1977

    • Kuzuha International
    • Martini International
    • South Seas Classic Pro-Am

    1978

    • Festival Of Sydney Open
    • Traralgon Classic
    • New South Wales Open

    1979

    • Traralgon Classic
    • Hong Kong Open
    • Martini International
    • Queensland PGA

    1980

    • French Open
    • Scandanavian Open
    • World Match Play
    • Australian Open

    1981

    • Australian Masters
    • Martini International
    • Dunlop Masters

    1982

    • Dunlop Masters
    • State Express Classic
    • Benson & Hedges

    1983

    • Australian Masters
    • Hong Kong Open
    • Cannes Invitational
    • World Match Play
    • Queensland Open
    • New South Wales Open
    • Kapalua International

    1984

    • Victorian Open
    • Australian Masters
    • Australian PGA Championship
    • Kemper Open
    • Canadian Open

    1985

    • Dunhill Cup
    • Australian PGA Championship
    • Australian Open
    • Australian Skins Challenge

    1986

    • Las Vegas Invitational
    • Kemper Open
    • British Open Championship
    • European Open
    • Dunhill Cup
    • World Match Play
    • Queensland Open
    • New South Wales Open
    • South Australian Open
    • West Australian Open
    • PGA Grand Slam Of Golf

    1987

    • Australian Masters
    • Australian Open

    1988

    • Palm Meadows Cup
    • ESP Open
    • Australian PGA National TPC
    • Italian Open
    • Heritage Classic
    • New South Wales Open
    • Desert Scramble

    1989

    • Australian PGA National TPC
    • Australian Masters
    • Greater Milwaukee Open
    • The International
    • Chunichi Crowns

    1990

    • Australian Masters
    • Doral-Ryder Open
    • Memorial Tournament

    1992

    • Canadian Open

    1993

    • Doral-Ryder Open
    • British Open Championship
    • Taiheiyo Masters
    • PGA Grand Slam Of Golf

    1994

    • Johnnie Walker Classic
    • Players Championship
    • PGA Grand Slam Of Golf

    1995

    • Memorial Tournament
    • Greater Hartford Open
    • World Series of Golf
    • Fred Meyer Challenge
    • Australian Open

    1996

    • South Australian Open
    • Australian Open
    • Doral-Ryder Open
    • Fred Meyer Challenge

    1997

    • World Championship of Golf
    • FedEx St. Jude Classic
    • Canadian Skins Game
    • World Series of Golf
    • Fred Meyer Challenge

    1998

    • Greg Norman Holden International
    • Shark Shootout
    • Presidents Cup

    2001

    • Skins Game
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