Quote Originally Posted by WBennett View Post
I ended up watching the 1980 Aussie Open last night. The course looked old, even then. Amazed at how little development was in the back of the long lens shots though - these days its tower blocks as far as the eye can see.

What amazed me was the ball performance though - a miss went 30/40/50m off line, something the modern ball doesn't do. Approach shots unless struck perfectly regularly went long - they didn't stop on a dime. And ball flight - Norman could hit a 30m draw off the tee!
So good watching the old opens, I can't believe a stab out of a bunker to 5 feet was considered 'shot of the day'. These days a bunker shot like that is considered mandatory

Gotta love how blunt Thommo's commentary was; 'he could of had two putts in that time'. Norman did take a long time over some of those putts!