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“Norman claimed his first European Tour title in 1977, at age twenty-two, shooting a course-record 66 in the final round to win the Martini International by three. On a circuit populated by scoundrels and ruffians, he stood out from his peers with his sobering focus. “For the Aussies in the generation before Greg, it was almost a badge of honor to drink ten beers and then shoot sixty-eight the next morning,” says Mike Clayton, a fellow Australian pro and contemporary of Norman. “He took it seriously. He wasn’t out there to make friends, really. I never, ever went to dinner with him. I don’t think anyone did. He would get to the course early, put in long hours, and then disappear”
― Alan Shipnuck, LIV and Let Die: The Inside Story of the War Between the PGA Tour and LIV Golf

“Mickelson ExxonMobil”
― Alan Shipnuck, Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar

“Tiger had reached out to the Mickelsons after Amy’s diagnosis, sending a heartfelt text in which he included the sentiment that he hoped doctors would someday find a cure for cancer, which had struck Woods’s father in 1998 and begun his declining”
― Alan Shipnuck, Phil: The Rip-Roaring (and Unauthorized!) Biography of Golf's Most Colorful Superstar