golf<\/a>, the best short game, best course management, but he just can\u2019t hit the ball.<\/p>\n\u2018It wasn\u2019t a good move\u2019 \u2013 Bizarre moment raging Jordan Spieth launches club into air in Players Championship meltdown<\/p>\n
“That is a tragedy.\u201c<\/p>\n
He added that there is a “tremendous lack of knowledge” from those involved in the sport.<\/p>\n
Player also seemingly criticised the way American golfers are coached.<\/p>\n
The 89-year-old claimed once stars are taught the bowed wrist technique \u201cyou\u2019re gone\u201d and \u201cyour golf career is limited.\u201d<\/p>\n
Player also made a bold remark about legend Seve Ballesteros.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cDo you know who knew the least about the golf swing? Ballesteros.<\/p>\n
“I played with him at Troon as a young man and he wasn\u2019t even a 10 handicap.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had no idea what he was doing. No idea. But he had the greatest feel of any man that ever lived.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was so good from 50 yards in. He was as good as anybody that ever lived.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know who the best is, but he was as good as anybody. <\/p>\n
“But hitting fairways? All over the place.<\/p>\n
“If you don\u2019t have the knowledge, you\u2019re limited. You\u2019re very limited.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GOLF icon Gary Player says it is a “tragedy” that Jordan Spieth isn’t the best player in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,21973,8693,3024,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-73898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-jordan-spieth","10":"tag-pga-tour","11":"tag-section-sportgolf","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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