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Cooling off Parnevik, Norman slide after red-hot front nine
Posted: Saturday April 08, 2000 09:21 PM
Jesper Parnevik and Greg Norman made bold charges during the third round of the Masters, but both came up a little short at the Augusta National Club. After starting the day just inside the halfway cut at 4-over-par, the Swede and the Australian showed glimpses of their brilliant best, but made costly mistakes in difficult conditions to finish with only moderate 2-under-par rounds of 70. Parnevik, twice a runner-up in the British Open, was on-target for his best ever round at the Masters after a scorching 32 on the front nine with birdies at the 2nd, 6th, 7th and 8th. But the European Ryder Cup player lost momentum after an awful double-bogey 6 at 11, where he four-putted from just 15 yards. He came home with a disappointing two-over-par 38 on the back-9.
"I would have loved to have been three or four shots better to give myself a better chance on Sunday." Like Parnevik, Norman's round was interrupted on the back nine by a two-hour suspension because of lightning and rain. The 45-year-old, three-times runner-up at Augusta, had played steadily to pick up one-shot through 12 when the weather intervened. After the break, he went for broke, shooting three birdies and three bogeys over the remaining seven holes. "I'm happy and sad," Norman said. "I thought I had a good chance to put a good number on the board...it's coming close, but it's just not there. "(After the weather-delay) I was hoping to make a bunch of birdies. I made them, but I made a bunch of bogeys too." As early starters, Norman and Parnevik had cool, cloudy and humid conditions early on, with moderate winds, and then faced driving-rain towards the end their rounds. By the time the leaders teed-off, the sun was shining but the wind was gusty and unpredictable, similar to Thursday's low scoring opening round. Norman, who's at two-over going into Sunday's final round, said he'd been aiming to be no more than six shots off the lead after day-3 to give himself at least an outside chance of making one of his renowned charges.
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