Out Of A Bunker Into History

Norman's seemingly solid lead dissipated after he wound up in a fairway divot on the 13th and double-bogeyed, then bogeyed 14 after he looped a drive under a tree. Tway, meanwhile, made birdie on the par-5 13th.

The word "choke" had been uttered, to Norman's deep displeasure, after his near-misses in earlier majors, and now the same subject was being raised. He was asked, "Is the monkey on your back again?"

"Why say something like that?" Norman sputtered. "I'll probably go out and win the next two weeks."

Then Norman strode from the press tent, his jaw set. Tway was off to the side, going over that shot yet again. "I was just trying to get it close," he said.

Close to immortality, it seems.