Gary Player - "Finding My Voice" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle. Then it started to hook.

Mike Gonzalez 0:16

You mentioned at the top about how you had not yet found your voice. You were afraid to speak out as a young man living under the system that you were uh you were living in in South Africa. And yet at some point, as a young professional, you found that voice, and for that, uh you you faced a lot of adversity. And I'll give you one example that was recounted to us by David Graham. Perhaps you have some recollection of this. He he mentioned a time playing in the Australian Open where uh he came into the last day tied for the lead with you. And the Sunday headlines at the time were You Will Die Today. This is directed at you. And the greens were the greens were whitewashed by by the people there, and and people were shant sh shouting taunts. I mean, that's the kind of stuff you faced uh in different places around the world for the kind of stances you were taking.

SPEAKER_00 1:05

Well, we played at the um the Australian golf course, which is a marvelous golf course, and man, I tell you do, I love Australia. I miss I miss Australia so much. I was so successful there, I just won seven Australian opens, still own the the Australian Open record today with all the modern day equipment. This is 1965, but be that as it may. I walked onto the first key, and there are these people black and white married, uh pushing their baby in front of my face, saying, This cannot happen in your country, and then there's all things on the greens uh written, racist go home on the greens and whitewash. And uh they had, can you believe this at the golf course? They had a police van going up the fairway for 18 hours, and as these people charged me on the green and did these things, the police grabbed these guys and threw them in the police van, and when the police van was full, the next police van came around and dumped those guys in there. Get rid of the bloody rape, the rap bags, mate. You know, and I mean, this was tough to play that way.

Mike Gonzalez 2:15

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Intro Music 2:36

Whack down the fairway. It went smack down the fairway. And it started to slice just smidge off line. It headed for two, but it bounced off nine. Mechanics, as long as you're still in the state, you're okay. It went straight down the middle, five away.