Gary Player - "Losing to Arnie at the Masters" SHORT TRACK

Intro Music 0:07

Straight down the middle. It went straight down the middle.

SPEAKER_00 0:13

Then it started to hook just as and the one thing you don't do at Augusta, Bruce, you don't miss that hole on the right, because nobody's ever got down in two except Arnold Palmer. One year in 1962, I had a chance to be the first player to win the Masters twice in a row. I've got Arnold by two shots. And I hit and I put my ball 12 foot from below the hole at Augusta at 16. And for those of you who know and have been there, you'll appreciate this. He hits the worst-looking shot I've ever seen. He missed the green and put it in the fringe on the right. So now my caddy, his name is Ernest Nipper, African American gentleman, best caddy I ever had. He says, Laddie, we've won. I said, Yes, we have. Because it gathers speed, you see, you can't get down in two. Nobody's ever got down in two from there. It's coming down. I said, I said, never. He's in the bunker. Because there's a bunker behind the flag. It hits the flag. Bounces up and goes in. Well, I felt like I was hit by lightning. And I went on to the next T, but I was very positive still. So he hits first and he hooks it into Eisendown tree, rattles and the tree comes underneath. I fly it right over the tree. He takes a five-ine and he chips it up there onto the front edge of the green, onto the green some distance on the hole. I hit a nine-in. Would you believe it? He holds it. So now we tie, we go in a 30, uh, 18-hole playoff. I'm out in 33, he's out in 36. The 10th hole, I had a beautiful second shot just at the back of the flag. He hits it 40 foot to the right now. You got no chance here. You got a 15-foot break.

Mike Gonzalez 2:04

I was gonna say it's a big old break.

SPEAKER_00 2:06

Yeah, so I said so I said to Nipa, I said, Nipper, we're gonna go at least another one ahead here. I don't know, the big lesson came around that bend, went in the hole. I said, Man, I said, God's an American.

Mike Gonzalez 2:26

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Intro Music 2:44

So long, everybody whack down the fairway. It went smack down the fairway. And it started to slice, just smitch off line. It headed for two, but it bounced off nine. My caddy says long as you're still in the state, you're okay.