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[garyplayerarchives-blog]

Player Takes Title By Four Strokes - Johannesburg, January 18, 1959. 

Gary Player beat out South African master Bobby Locke at the Transvaal Open championship, setting a new course record in the process at Kensington. 

“It was during those 16 vital holes in the afternoon that Player revealed his class as a world golfer. During the first nine, particularly, his game looked like going to bits - and, indeed the density of the crowd on two occasions prevented his ball from finding the dense rough-but he held on with magnificent tenacity.”

(Second article - The Star Johannesburg, January 19, 1959.)