Greg Norman celebrity print 1981

Summary

This concrete handprint was formerly located as a part of the iconic McEwans celebrity pavement. Between 1972 and 1994, scores of celebrities had their handprints and footprints immortalised in cement at the entrance to the McEwans hardware store on Bourke Street. The City of Melbourne Art and Heritage Collection acquired a number of these impressed concrete slabs from the original celebrity pavement in 2005.

"Golfer Greg Norman (born 1955) was one of the world’s top players of the 1980s and ’90s. His striking blond hair and aggressive playing style earned him the nickname ‘The Great White Shark’ or simply ‘The Shark’. In Melbourne in February 1981 for the Australian Masters tournament, at Huntingdale, Norman was fresh from winning the 1980 French Open and the elite World Match Play Championship." - Robyn Annear, 2023