Yorkshire golf: How Gary Player delivered knockout blow at Huddersfield
Player – one of only five men to win the grand slam and the only one to have done likewise in the Senior ranks – was on his first visit to Britain and played in the Leeds Cup at Huddersfield. It was one of many occasions in which Player graced the Leeds Cup.
Coming to the last at Fixby, he needed a five to win.
“There was a stone wall on 18 and I thought that I could bank my shot off the wall onto the green,” recalled Player. “I went for it and the shot hit me in the jaw and knocked me down for a second or two. They gave me some smelling salts.
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Hide Ad“Dazed, I then chipped the ball onto the green. I thought, – ‘great... four shots’.
“I then holed the putt for five and thought I had won the tournament, only to find out I was given a two-shot penalty for hitting myself.”