Dear Gary Player,
You also prom ote
yourself as an anti-obesity role model because you say this is "an issue of the
utmost urgency. You go on to tell us, "If I can encourage today’s youth to focus
on health and fitness, I will count that as a great
victory."
P.P.S. Player(79) in his second childhood showing off like a five year old.
Sorry
you are now not the oldest man to strip naked for a photo shoot. Here I am a
few months short of 80. That’s three years older than you.
ESPN magazine seems to be a bit slow publishing
my picture, but I can’t help it if they don’t recognise one that’s even more
sensational than the one of you that appeared in its annual The Body Issue.
Possibly you won’t agree but I thought
that the one of US
All this exercise business is totally
overrated if you ask me. I know I won’t convince you as you constantly brag
about the fact that you do 1 000 sit-ups a day and plan to push it up
to 1 200
and have also won a few golf tournaments.
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Another one of your self boosting
observations is that "Most people my age haven’t seen their private parts in 10
years because they have such a big stom ach." (As a golfer it couldn’t be more serious if you can’t see your balls)
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The last time I looked I could see mine and
if I couldn’t I could definitely feel them. Does that still count?
The only time I do a sit-up is when I
get to the dinning room table for a
slap up meal of just about everything that is edible.
Like a good golfer I see you are increasing the greens
part of your diet from 70% to 85%.
But tell me Gary
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From what you say Gary
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Unlike you I take tablets for high
blood pressure and cholesterol and I don’t mind taking them for any other
problems I might have. I also swallow vitamins by the handful.
Of course you had to add that on your horse breeding
ranch Mr
Perfect helps mix cement and carry poles.
I have had three back operations,
probably caused by not doing nearly enough sit-ups. It was nothing to do with
picking up 50
kg bags when I too was farming I can assure you. As a result the
only golf I have played was more like hockey.
Currently I climb up on the roof of our house to fix gutters and leaks. I also build walls and generally see to the maintenance.
Currently I climb up on the roof of our house to fix gutters and leaks. I also build walls and generally see to the maintenance.
But I don’t tell
the whole world about it.
I like the way you say, "People who are my
age, they’re dead" as if still being
alive is another one of your great achievements.
Has it ever occurred to you Mr Perfect
that you might have been lucky enough to com e
off the assembly line with the right genes and that this is the main reason for
your good health with 1 000 sit-ups a day and all that jazz
having very little to do with it?
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The Old Boy’s section of the magazine
of the school I went to has a sort of roll of honour for those who have reached
80
or more. The oldest one in the latest edition is 97 and there are lots of others
between him and the 80 year olds.
I doubt very much whether many of them
attribute their longevity to your kind of rigorous exercise regime. So I don’t
think you can hold it up as the perfect recipe for a long and ache free life
for all of us.
You say you are a grandfather of 23 as
if that was all your own work. But in reality that’s a minus because you have
indirectly contributed to over populating an already very crowded world.
It would seem that you are far from being the ideal person to teach the grandkids that
bragging is not the way to behave. If golf was a team sport like cricket or
rugby your fellow players would have knocked modesty into you a very long time
ago.
All
very noble. You hardly need to be a genius or a cultural expert to knock a
little ball around, but as a South African, who has paid a few visits to the
States, you now seem to think you know what’s good for that entire country.
The Sunday Times quoted you as saying; "The trouble
with Americans is that they don’t appreciate America
I
can't think of a tactful way of saying this Gary so here goes.
Regards,
Jon, a well-known shrink who has a
sign on his desk which says,
Once I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.
P.S. Has nobody every mentioned to you Gary that if you have achieved
significant things in life everybody knows about them, so you don’t have to
keep reminding them every time you appear in the Media. You will no doubt remember
two of your most recent modesty gems that you gave The Telegraph about your first British Open
win at Muirfield.
This was after you hit the headlines when you had the balls to pose nude for ESPN
quite contrary to the stuffy dress code of any golf club you have ever been in.
Here they are.
"I walked up to the President a
Mr McMaster and told him I was going to win. I was still a long way back and he
probably thought I was mad, but I knew I could do it."
And
this is what you recalled 50 years later you told The Telegraph. "Playing with old clubs and the ball of the
time I managed to shoot 68 with a double bogey at the
end. I thought to myself, 'Gee you must have been pretty good back then.'”
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*Note to my Blog
Readers: It’s unlikely that Gary
P.P.S. Player(79) in his second childhood showing off like a five year old.
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