ELS SHOOTS 60 AT ROYAL MELBOURNE FEBRUARY 5, 2004

There aren’t many better layouts in world golf than Royal Melbourne Golf Club’s Composite Course and – in February, 2004 – there weren’t many better players on the planet than Ernest Theodore Els.

On February 5 of that year, for instance, Els was ranked No.3 in the world rankings behind Vijay Singh and Tiger Woods. But if you were to judge him on his opening round at the Heineken Classic alone, you would struggle