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          Gary Player is one of the most successful international golfers of all time.

        1. Gary Player is one of the most successful international golfers of all time.
        2. (AP) — Gary Player is a big believer that one can't go through life without love.
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        4. A full life is a gift.
        5. Fans have been left heartbroken for Rory McIlroy after his year wait for a major ended in the 'biggest choke in the history of golf' during the US Open.

          6. Gary Player or the “Black Knight” is a South African professional golfer widely considered as one of the best golfers ever to tee it up.

          Most experts and historians believe Player to be in the same elevated category as Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Tiger Woods, and Byron Nelson.

          Player captured a total of nine Major Championships and a total of 160 professional wins worldwide.

          At the tender age of 29, The Black Knight captured the 1965 US Open and, in doing so, became the first international golfer to have won all four Majors during his career; this is known in golf as the “career grand slam.”

          At the time, Gary was the youngest player ever to have achieved the feat; however his rival and friend Jack Nicklaus eclipsed Player’s achievement by winning all four majors aged 26.

          Tiger Woods now holds the record for the youngest golfer to win all four majors at age 24.

          In 1974 Gary Player was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame and amazingly won