Greg Norman … ‘That White Noise Will Be A Distraction’ To U.S. Open Competitors

Double Major winning Greg Norman will make his fully-fledged debut as a TV analyst for FOX Sports at next week’s U.S. Open.

Norman got a first taste of being behind the microphone last December when FOX covered the Franklin Templeton Shootout in Naples, Florida.

However with just a week to go before he co-anchors FOX coverage of the year’s traditional second Major and Norman has come up with a phase not normally heard by fellow TV analysts working for either CBS, SKY or BBC.

Greg Norman suggesting  that 'white noise' will be a distraction to U.S. Open competitors.

Greg Norman suggesting that ‘white noise’ will be a distraction to U.S. Open competitors.

The phrase … ‘that white noise will be a distraction to you’.

Here is how Norman, a winner of the 1986 and 1993 Open Championship, used the phase and where asked his reaction to player comments about the Chambers Bay host venue.

“The reaction is nothing different than any other major championship. When you go into it as a player, you either like the set-up or you don’t. The attitude that Phil Mickelson has is the right attitude to take. You have to go in with no white noise going through your head saying, ‘I don’t like this course because I don’t know how to play it.’

“That white noise will be detraction to you, and you won’t perform well. So I know Phil has done his homework extremely well around there. Can they do 100 percent of their homework? No, they cannot because they don’t know the way the course is going to be set up by the USGA executive committee, which is part of the great theater that we’re going to have up there. Every day is going to be a different day.

“The USGA is getting exactly what they wanted, weather-wise, by choosing Chambers Bay. Phil Mickelson has a really good chance of hoisting a U.S. Open trophy because Chambers Bay will suit him.”

All we can do is wish the ‘Great White Shark’ every success in his new endeavour.



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