Talk:Gary Player

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[edit] Current Event!

This should be marked as a current event, in the Did you know... column, and it should also probably be locked to prevent his press army from chopping my addition. All the information presented here was summarized from George Monbiot's column in The Guardian which I read in my beloved Taipei Times. I love Wikipedia. And Mr. Monbiot wrote quite an outstanding and well-researched piece, and funny too. Nice phone work. --Torchpratt 12:07, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Poor phrasing

Is anybody else bothered by using trademarked phrases like the one in this article? --Arcadian 14:55, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Well it's hardly the worst thing about the article, which is mostly just raw data. It's not a copy-vio to repeat a phrase in this way. I'll start working on it now, and come back now and again until it's fixed. Wincoote 16:11, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Should the tiff between Player and Tom Watson be documented in here? --70.21.45.88 23:34, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

I am very bothered by the reference: "is sometimes referred to as one of the big three" listed in the Wikipedia reference for Gary Player. Player IS one of the big three, there is no "sometimes" about it. I believe this is disrespectful to the career Gary Player has had, and the phenomenal golfer and person he is. It seems as though Gary Player is overshadowed in the media by his other two counterparts of the Big Three. It appears his success as an athlete is undervalued in favor of recognizing and celebrating the other two golfers (which I assume is a US influence).If you put "big three golf" in the search engine of google, the first two references are of "the big three" being Gary Player, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. Very poor phrasing.

Player isn't always referred to as one of the big three so using "sometimes" in this article seems fair. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.142.101.172 (talk) 15:41, 15 April 2008 (UTC)