South African {golfing} legend Gary Player launched an announcement on Monday saying he had taken motion to get better trophies and memorabilia that had been put up for public sale by his son and former supervisor Marc Player.
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Gary Player, who’s a nine-time main winner and South Africa’s biggest ever sportsman, claimed in a social media submit that Marc had positioned a number of gadgets from his profession up for public sale with out his authorisation.
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“I would like to draw the public’s attention to the fact that several trophies and other pieces of memorabilia that form part of my legacy have been put up for auction by my son and ex-manager, Marc,” Gary Player’s statement learn.
“These items belong to me and I have taken action to recover them. I have placed no items for sale – whether by auction or otherwise.”
The pair have been at loggerheads for years.
In 2020, Gary Player, who will flip 87 on 1 November this yr, obtained a $5 million settlement payment after coming into into an arbitration dispute with the Gary Player Group over possession and naming rights.
The Gary Player Group firm was operated by Marc Player.
Meanwhile, one other of Gary Player’s sons, Wayne, was banned for all times from the Masters after a cheesy ambush advertising and marketing stunt forward of the 2021 event.
As reported by The South African web site on the time, Wayne Player, who was serving as his father’s “caddy” for the ceremonial opening tee photographs, stood holding a sleeve of golf balls in such a approach as to provide the emblem most visibility and publicity.
Gary Player misplaced his spouse, Vivienne, to pancreatic most cancers in August final yr after 64 years of marriage.
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Player, alongside with Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer, had been referred to as one in every of golf’s ‘Big 3’ throughout their heydays.
He is one in every of his 5 golfers to have accomplished the profession Grand Slam – that’s, profitable all 4 majors not less than as soon as – and the one non-American to have achieved so.
Player has three inexperienced jackets from the Masters (1961, 1974, 1978), three Open titles (1959, 1968, 1974), two PGA Championship wins (1962, 1972) and one US Open title in 1965.
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