Word: players
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Player is renowned for his Spartan, black tournament wardrobe. He wears black for a specific purpose: "To absorb the strength of the sun." Player also derives inner strength from his faith in God. He once pontificated, "my strength is as the strength of ten because my heart is pure...
...Player also became a health food devotee, subsisting on fruits and nuts before such a diet was in vogue. At the 1966 U.S. Open the press corps checked into its hotel and was greeted with a complementary bunch of bananas from Player and the Chiquita company...
...Player's ancestors were French Huguenots who emigrated to South Africa in the early 18th century. His great-grandmother participated in the Great Trek of the Boers north from Capetown in 1847. She married James Powers, whose intimate knowledge of South Africa's veldts and wildlife has been inherited by Player. In fact, Player's brother Ian was chief game conservator of the Hluhluwe and Umfolozi game reserves in Zululand...
...Player once said: "All South Africans have this powerful feeling for land, and this has come down through the generations, too. My father had a keen eye. He was very good with a rifle, very good with golf clubs, and had this feeling for the lie of the land ... I do believe that I have some of it, in relation to golf ... I certainly have a feeling for the drainage of a golf hole, the sheltering effect of trees, the feel of the surface soil under my spikes...
...Player's sixth sense has been invaluable for a golfer who regularly plays in championships on every continent. This year he won his tenth South African Open. On Sunday he displayed all of his dexterity in gauging the manifold contours of Augusta's greens, which hold approach shots much better than the hard greens of South African courses...