Norman plays traffic cop to get bus rolling
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November 16, 2011, Wednesday
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PRESIDENTS Cup captain Greg Norman played traffic cop on Monday after the Internationals team bus got stuck in a busy Melbourne road coming back from dinner.
The bus driver bottomed the bus out on a raised partition in the middle of the road, forcing the players to pile off and dodge traffic to allow the driver to plot an exit. Rather than call for a fleet of courtesy cars, Norman and a group of players flagged oncoming cars down to allow the bus to get out of the jam.
"He was backing it out onto Bridge Road, which is quite impressive, and K.J. (Kim Kyung-tae) and Greg took control and played policeman and stood out in the road. The bus got out. It was very impressive, actually," Australian International Geoff Ogilvy told reporters.
The sight of white-haired Norman, an idol in his home country, charging up to a car with his arms waving put at least one driver on edge, however.
"He started winding his window up thinking I must have been coming to take him on or something, I don't know," Norman said with a grin. "He wound up his window and stood and stared right out. I said, 'Just roll down your window' with a smile on my face, and then he got it and turned around and went back. I thought that was a good way to bring a bit of team camaraderie together because it was just spontaneous."
The Internationals are bidding for only their second win in the ninth edition of the Presidents Cup starting on Thursday.
The bus driver bottomed the bus out on a raised partition in the middle of the road, forcing the players to pile off and dodge traffic to allow the driver to plot an exit. Rather than call for a fleet of courtesy cars, Norman and a group of players flagged oncoming cars down to allow the bus to get out of the jam.
"He was backing it out onto Bridge Road, which is quite impressive, and K.J. (Kim Kyung-tae) and Greg took control and played policeman and stood out in the road. The bus got out. It was very impressive, actually," Australian International Geoff Ogilvy told reporters.
The sight of white-haired Norman, an idol in his home country, charging up to a car with his arms waving put at least one driver on edge, however.
"He started winding his window up thinking I must have been coming to take him on or something, I don't know," Norman said with a grin. "He wound up his window and stood and stared right out. I said, 'Just roll down your window' with a smile on my face, and then he got it and turned around and went back. I thought that was a good way to bring a bit of team camaraderie together because it was just spontaneous."
The Internationals are bidding for only their second win in the ninth edition of the Presidents Cup starting on Thursday.
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