The World Golf Hall of Fame will soon add to its featured special exhibit, "Gary Player: A Global Journey" with newly acquired items from Player's 50th Masters Tournament in April.
“With Player there has always been a palpable sense of something extra,” says the player profile on the World Golf Hall of Fame website. “Perhaps no golfer has ever craved victory so much for such a long time. His peers, who included Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus in their primes, knew it.”
“I don't think Gary was a great driver of the golf ball," said Nicklaus. "I don't think he was a great iron player. He was a good putter, not a great putter. But when he really needed to be, he was a great driver, and a great iron player, and he made the putt when he needed to make it. Gary, as much as anyone I ever saw, has that thing inside him that champions have."
“Player is indisputably the greatest international golfer of all time,” the profile continues.
“He estimates he has spent more than three years of his life in airplanes and traveled some 14 million miles. In every year from 1955 to 1982, Player won at least one sanctioned international tournament, a 27-year streak. He won the World Match Play title five times, the Australian Open seven times and the South African Open 13 times. In winning the 1974 Brazilian Open, he shot the only 59 ever in a national open.”
For more information, visit the World Golf Hall of Fame website
