Greg Norman is out as the lead golf analyst at Fox Sports after only one year with the network, a notably brief tenure for a well-known athlete-turned-analyst. Fox hired Norman, a novice at sportscasting, after it acquired the rights to the United States Open from the United States Golf Association. Norman’s inexperience was evident, as was that of Fox.
u25a0 Jamie Donaldson is likely to miss this week’s Abu Dhabi HSBC Golf Championship after severely injuring his finger with a chain saw. Donaldson, 40, who scored the decisive point as Europe won the 2014 Ryder Cup, posted a graphic photo on Twitter of what seemed to be a laceration to the little finger of his left hand and wrote: “So folks in my time off decided to have a fight with a chainsaw and lost!