Tough course breeze for Norman

He claims 2-shot lead in quest to become oldest major winner By Chuck Culpepper | Los Angeles Times SOUTHPORT, England - Golf had the weirdest dream yesterday. In this dream, malevolent winds burned faces, shoved golf balls from their lies and yanked caps off heads, until all the wreckage and all the tortured shots and all the happy gorse culminated with emphatic applause on No.18 for ... Greg Norman? Yeah, you know those deep, senseless, REM dreams where familiar faces turn up in unfeasible places? Well, on Saturday, in early-evening sunshine in the dunes of Royal Birkdale, here came the third-round leader in a scene so beyond belief it's unforgettable no matter what might happen today. Here, up the left side of the fairway came Norman in the year 2008, the Greg Norman who's allegedly 53, who didn't even play the previous 11... [read full story]