Gary Player
Gary Player
Gary Player DMS, OIGis a retired South African professional golfer, widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of golf. Over his career, Player accumulated nine major championships on the regular tour and six Champions Tour major championship victories, as well as three Senior British Open Championships on the European Senior Tour. At the age of 29, Player won the 1965 U.S. Open and became the only non-American to win all four majors, known as the career...
NationalitySouth African
ProfessionGolfer
Date of Birth1 November 1935
CityJohannesburg, South Africa
The more I work and practice, the luckier I seem to get.
Golf is a puzzle without an answer. I've played the game for 40 years and I still haven't the slightest idea how to play.
You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.
Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.
We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
A strong mind is one of the key components that separates the great from the good.
To succeed in life one must have determination and must be prepared to suffer during the process. If one isn't prepared to suffer during adversities, I don't really see how he can be successful.
It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.
As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.
I just hate to see what's happening today with golf clubs that I consider to be illegal, ... I'd stop the grooves being so deep (on the ball), and I'd stop the trampoline effect in the wood.
I'm 70, I hit a drive 280 yards the other day. I never hit a ball 280 in my life. I don't know where we're going. They're going to hit balls over 400 yards. We are only 20 or 30 years out.
I'm using exactly the same clubs, other than No. 4. I was brainwashed into believing it would be abnormal with all the changes. But we're hitting the same club Jack Nicklaus did. I remember Jack hitting 5-iron on No. 11. The greens weren't as fast, but the fairways were lousy.
If there's one man in the world who could play two men, it would be Tiger. In my mind, Furyk is going to play.
If there's a golf course in heaven, it's like this. I'm in no hurry to tee off but I hope I'm the head pro some day.