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
I was so brainwashed about how abnormal this was going to be with all the changes. It's not that abnormal. Even if the course is unbelievably tough, look at the beautiful trees and the flowers. It's a paradise.
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.
When you've got two guys 1-up with two to play, you automatically think, 'we've got it', especially after they'd battled their hearts out to get back in those matches.
it doesn't matter what happened in the past or what happens in the present, when we tee up tomorrow, it's a new day. It's a brand new game.
I see it going right down the line again.
Our guys played well, they just played better.
They've got to do it -- there's not even a debate, ... There must be a premium on driving.
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've got too much I want to do in life.
It's very long for me. I'm driving it into the face of every hill out there (and) had to hit a wood into every (par-4) hole.
I want to play one more than Arnie. I want to get to 51.
Any time you have two Presidents Cups in a row and you go to the 18th green, I mean, golf is the winner,
Arnold (Palmer) played 50 times. I'd like to play 51 times and then hang it up.
That putt Chris made, I take my hat off to him, ... What a day's golf.