The exchange lasted only about two minutes – Player was due on the tee soon – but it was jam-packed with the kind of information that had the assembled crowd leaning in curiously.
Memorabilia belonging to Gary Player has been put up for auction without his permission for the second time in three years. And the nine-time Major champion isn’t too happy about it.
Garrick Higgo, a 22-year-old lefty from South Africa with a toothy smile and a killer instinct, won the Palmetto Championship today, albeit, it must be said, with some serious assistance from Chesson Hadley.
Henrik Stenson in his boxer briefs. Tommy Fleetwood blow-drying his hair. Colin Montgomerie driven to distraction by a fly. Justin Rose tossing expletives up a storm. And Gary Player, well, being Gary Player.
If Dustin Johnson showed up for his pre-Masters press conference on Tuesday afternoon and announced he’d had enough of the golf grind and was retiring at age 34, he could walk off into the Augusta sunset knowing his next metaphorical stop would be the World Golf Hall of Fame.