Norman to pull out?

Press, 8 February 1985, Page 30

Norman to pull out?

NZPA-AAP Melbourne The Australian golf star, Greg Norman, revealed yesterday he was considering boycotting two major events on the Australia-New Zealand circuit. Norman said he might boycott the Queensland Open and the Air New Zealand Open because of separate incidents involving organisers. The incident involving the New Zealand tournament dated back to 1977 but the decision that he might not

play the Open championship of his home state stemmed from a recent two-year agreement he said he had made. Norman, the defending champion at the Victorian Open being played at Yarra Yarra this week, said he considered the agreement had fallen through because organisers had not fulfilled their part in it. ■ ; “It hurts me a lot because I come from Queensland,” Norman said. He also said he would not go back to the New Zealand

tournament until he received an apology. He alleged he was wrongly accused by officials of being involved in an incident during a flight between Australia and New Zealand. Norman said he was mistakenly identified as the person at the centre of the incident but said today he was away from the scene, at the front of the plane. “I won’t go back until they apologise and it’s printed in the papers,” Norman said.