Gary Player won nine majors during his storied golf career. But the 80-year-old South African “would have given anything to have a gold medal,” because he sees the Olympics as “the biggest sporting event in the world.”
Player spoke with the Golf Channel on Wednesday ahead of this week’s British Open, and didn’t hold back when asked about his thoughts on so many pros pulling out of the Rio Olympics.
“I’m bitterly disappointed,” he said. “In America today, their plus-minus combined with car accidents and guns, 100,000 people killed a year, and you’re going to go and play in a golf tournament where Zika is the great word.