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For Norris, competition is par for the course
- Updated: August 23, 2016
LOS ANGELES — For as far back as he can remember, Dodgers pitcher Bud Norris had a baseball and bat in his hands. Or golf clubs.
“My dad was a collegiate golfer at Cal Berkeley,” said Norris. “He passed the game on to me. I must have been 3 or 4 or 5 when I started, around the same time as baseball.”
Norris, 31, is a throwback to the days when Major League starting pitchers would make a round or two of golf part of their between-starts routine. Some ballplayers made their offseason homes in the Sun Belt just to hone their golf game. A native Northern Californian, Norris now lives in Texas.
“It’s an amazing game, something part of the great relationship with my father, first and foremost,” Norris said. “My dad taught me at a very young age and it’s carried me all through my life, to be as good a golfer as I am now. But those cherished memories we had, spending four or five hours together on the golf course, kind of learning the game and being outdoors. The game means a whole lot to me.”
Norris said he’s a 3 handicap. But along with the satisfaction of flirting with par, he said the similarities …
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