NORMAN WORKS FOR FUTURE GOLFERS.

Byline: DAVE SHELBURNE Golf

Greg Norman, you've just won the first tournament you entered since undergoing shoulder surgery seven months ago. What are you going to do next?

Turns out it won't be Disneyland. But it might wind up another sort of wild ride he'll remember for a while.

``I'm going to be a guinea pig,'' Norman said Sunday at Sherwood Country Club after winning his own Franklin Templeton Shark Shootout for the first time.

Norman will reunite next month with Dr. Richard Hawkins of the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic in Vail, Colo., where Hawkins rebuilt a rotator cuff so worn out Norman's shoulder was disjointing during backswings in April.

This time, Hawkins will turn this shark into a laboratory rat while his family hits the slopes at Vail this Christmas.

``I'm going to go over to the clinic and they're going to put wires and needles in me to figure out what happens with the body during the golf swing,'' said Norman, who teamed with fellow Australian Steve Elkington to finish 54 holes at 27-under-par and then fired three more birdies to win a three-hole playoff.

``We were going to do it here (at Sherwood during the Shootout), but we really couldn't get it all dialed in. We'd like to get the input of all the other players, too. Get Steve's swing on there, see what happens with his body because he's got such great rotation and torque. When you're talking to Steve, he's talking about different muscles than what I talk about.

``So I'm very much interested in doing that. I want to make a study of it, to tell you the truth. I personally want to find out what muscles fire first from the downswing, and that will teach you what muscles to work on physically. And that will help kids 20 years behind us, 30 years behind.''

Norman said golf is just catching up to other sports in that kind of scientific analysis.

``They've used computers to improve swimming, they've used computers to improve hurdling, baseball, pitching, everything . . . tennis - you can go right across. But it hasn't really been done in depth in golf and I want to be the guinea pig for it and see what happens.''

Norman, who turned professional in 1976, thinks his injury wasn't so much the result of golf, but rather was exacerbated by it.

One of the most fit players on the PGA Tour, Norman has a long and varied history in athletics - many of them involving an overhead arm motion.

``I used to be a big swimmer,'' he said. ``I used to be a competitive middle distance swimmer, so all that overhead swimming was not good for me. Having that and playing rugby, football in Australia - it's all overhand stuff. Cricket, bungee jumping - all that stuff.

``Golf wasn't the sole reason for my shoulder. There were a lot of other things going on as well in my past. Golf didn't help it. It just accelerated the problem. It was a culmination of my upbringing as a kid, the sports I did. That's why I want to go into (research and development) with these golf swings.''

Considering what transpired last week and during Norman's 75-win career, this research and development is coming after the product is already a huge success in the marketplace.

But you never know. It might lead to bigger sharks down the road.

Norman thinks so.

``Kids that are 4, 5 or 6 years old,'' he said. ``That will help (teach) them what muscles to develop.''

Names in the game: Gary Marshall of Canoga Park hit a hole-in-one Monday on the 167-yard, par-3 13th hole at Industry Hills Eisenhower. That's remarkable enough, but well down the remarkable list for the 57-year-old Marshall. He also won a car - a new Lexus - for his effort. There's more, much more: It was the second time in three months Marshall has hit a hole-in-one to win a car - he also did it in August at Porter Valley Country Club. And finally . . . Marshall has only one arm.

``I aim for the pin,'' is his simple explanation for his extraordinary accomplishments.

Marshall was one of 22 disabled golfers in a field of more than 200 players competing at Eisenhower in the Casa Colina Adaptive Sports Golf Classic. Money raised by the tournament supports Pomona-based Casa Colina's rehabilitative- adaptive sports program, which fields six wheelchair sports teams.

LPGA TOUR

Tour Championship

Site: Las Vegas.

Schedule: Today-Sunday.

Course: Desert Inn Golf Course (6,373 yards, par 72).

Purse (Winner's share): $1 million ($215,000).

Television: ESPN (Today-Friday, 1-3 p.m.), ESPN2 (Saturday, 1:30-3:30 p.m.) and ABC (Sunday, 1-3 p.m.).

Last year: Sweden's Annika Sorenstam won with a par on the third hole of a playoff with Canada's Lorie Kane. Pat Hurst was eliminated on the first extra hole. The three finished at 11-under 277. Sorenstam earned $160,000 to finish the year with a tour-record $1,236,789.

Last event: Japan's Hiromi Kobayashi won the Japan Classic on Nov. 8, beating Tina Barrett on the third hole of a playoff. Kobayashi closed with a 2-under 69 to match Barrett at 11-under 205.

Notes: Sorenstam, a four-time winner this year, has clinched the money title with $1,077,498. She has a 69.88 scoring average in a bid to become the first player in tour history to finish under 70.

INTERNATIONAL GOLF ASSOCIATION

World Cup of Golf

Site: Auckland, New Zealand.

Schedule: Today-Sunday.

Course: Gulf Harbour Country Club (6,850 yards, par 72).

Purse (Winner's shares): $1.5 million ($200,000 each).

Television: Fox (Saturday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; Sunday, 1-3 p.m.).

Last year: Paul McGinley and Padraig Harrington gave Ireland its first victory since 1958, finishing at 31-under in Kiawah Island, S.C. Scotland's Colin Montgomerie and Raymond Russell finished second, five strokes back. Montgomerie won the individual title at 22-under 266.

Notes: John Daly and Scott Verplank are representing the United States in the 32-country tournament.