Greg Norman isn't playing as much golf as he used to these days, but he showed he can still make a big shot during the first day of the World Skins Game. Norman rolled in an 18-foot eagle putt on the par-5 eighth hole to win $97,800 on Monday, taking the first-day lead. “When you win a skins it's great. You can play average golf and win and you can play great golf and not win,” said Norman, who used a 5 iron to hit it close from 211 yards after a big drive on the downhill, 556-yard hole. Fred Couples, making his ninth appearance in the Canadian event, lived up to his reputation as “King of the Skins” with a 60-foot putt worth two skins on the second hole. “It's always good to take something home,” said Couples after adding $29,340 to more than $5 million in career Skins Game winnings on both side of the border. Canadian Mike Weir, Columbia's Camilo Villegas and Scotland's Colin Montgomerie were all shut out after nine holes at the Predator Ridge Golf Course, located about 450 kilometers northeast of Vancouver.
