‘My mind went numb’: Shaun Norris on making a TEN on the par-four fourth on his way to missing the cut at +5
What happened: “I hit a very poor tee shot, the first one. Then proceeded to hit the next one straight in the bunker. Now I’m trying to chase something, trying to make the best score out of it. Unfortunately the fourth shot caught the lip, then I stuck with the same club and tried to do the same. After that, the mind sort of went a little bit numb. But it happens. Golf is golf, there’s nothing you can do about it. Made a number, and I had to accept it and carry on.”
On bouncing back with birdie at the fifth: “You’ve just got to accept it. Plain and simple, you’ve got to accept it. There’s nothing you can do about it, the past is the past. I knew that it happened, I made the number, I made the 10 on the hole. I just said, okay, now instead of making two or three or four birdies coming back, I’ve now got to make five or six. I was happy with the way I fought back after that. Unfortunately I didn’t make as many putts as I would have liked to, but that’s how it goes.”