Letter from Augusta: Great White Shark returns to Augusta, but is buying his ticket

The CEO of LIV Golf is at the Masters to support his players, he says. 'Hey, you know, the boss is here rooting for you.’

Stacy Donaldson and John Donaldson of Aiken, South Carolina, posing with Norman on the 15th fairway crossing (Courtesy of the Donaldsons)

It was 43 years ago here, when a young and dashing golfer from Down Under showed up at the Masters and received a new nickname in the pages of The Augusta Chronicle.

Greg Norman was just 26 years old in 1981 when he played in his first of 23 Masters, not yet scarred by repeated calamities and near misses at Augusta National. He spoke that year about “shark shooting” back home near Brisbane, Australia, in Moreton Bay, a breeding ground for sharks.