Episode 221: Gary Player Wants to Live to 100

Gary Player was 17 and had only been playing golf for three years when he told his father that he was turning pro. Player went on to win nine majors and the career grand slam on two different tours, and today, at 91, he still cannot entirely explain how. On this episode, he and host Tom Coyne go looking for the answer in what Player calls “it,” a quality he can spot in champions but never quite define. Along the way he tells the story of the five words he got out of Ben Hogan at his first U.S. Open, the 22-footer he holed at Augusta for a caddie who needed a new roof, what made Arnie and Jack brothers rather than rivals, and the goal he’s chasing: Teeing it up at 100 years old.

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