UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. (AP) – New to golf broadcasting, Fox Sports also gets its first crack at Tiger Woods. And the two primary voices at the U.S. Open, including Greg Norman, don’t have high expectations for him at Chambers Bay.
That’s not alarming.
Woods now has gone seven years since he last won a major. Due to injuries and yet another change in coaches, he has gone 18 months without finishing in the top 10 anywhere in the world. And he’s coming off an 85-74 weekend at the Memorial, the highest 36-hole score of his career.
“It’s a massive effort, mentally and physically, for him to get himself out of this hole he’s in,” Norman said on a conference call. “The more he shoots 85, or extraordinary high numbers, the harder it is for him to get out of that hole.”
Norman will be in the booth with lead announcer Joe Buck, who said Woods has been “front and center” for as long as Buck has been watching golf.