article_snippet.sent: Gary Player considers Tiger Woods completing the career Grand Slam at the age of just 24 as the best golfing feat Gary Player has seen.
article_snippet.sent: I’m not sure people fully realise what a magnificent effort it would be,’ said the South African legend.
article_snippet.sent: Then Jack Nicklaus came along and did you will never see that done again at 26
article_snippet.sent: and then Tiger at 24.
article_snippet.sent: Two men of similar stature who came from a foreign land to take on the Americans in the majors in their own backyard; two men with a commitment to fitness with minds strong enough to ward off all the criticism.
article_snippet.sent: It was Player, of course, who wrote the book when the book came to golfers and fitness.
article_snippet.sent: But it you want to be a superstar, and by a superstar I mean a player who has won at least six majors, there are no short cuts.
article_snippet.sent: Player also gives short shrift to the idea that completing the career Grand Slam is a modern media invention.
article_snippet.sent: I so wanted to follow Gene Sarazen and particularly Ben Hogan and become the third player to achieve it, because Ben Hogan was the best player I’d seen.
article_snippet.sent: I was due to play a tournament at Greensboro in 1965 when Jack said if I wanted to win the US Open and complete the set I should go with Jack to the US Open site and practise.
article_snippet.sent: Player and Nicklaus have remained lifelong friends.
article_snippet.sent: Player and Nicklaus will be partners in a team competition in the autumn before Player heads to Greece for his 80th birthday celebrations.
article_snippet.sent: And then, 50 years on from Jack own date with history, Jack will join every other fascinated observer to see if another non-American can complete the set of majors and join Jack on what former US Open champion Curtis Strange evocatively refers to as golf’s Mount Rushmore.
highlights_snippet.sent: Gary Player considers Tiger Woods Grand Slam at 24 as best golfing feat .
  