Talk:Gary Player

message: 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)
thread_title: Current Event! 

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

text: 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)
thread_title: Poor phrasing

message: If he is a citizen of the USA, should he not be referred to as African American?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.186.223.187 (talk) 21:11, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  eeh, thats a touchy topic.  Technically yes, but in reality no would have to be my answer.--Duffy2032 (talk) 04:52, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: What's so touchy about the topic? Anyway, the answer is 'yes' because he's from Africa and he's a citizen of the U.S.A.--137.186.232.27 (talk) 21:30, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The answer is "no" because "African American" has a specific meaning, and Gary Player doesn't fit it.  "African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa."  --Mugsywwiii (talk) 17:44, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: "What's so touchy about the topic?" Wow, okay, sounds like we've got a lot of catching up to do here. —64.134.189.209 (talk) 04:13, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  African American 

message: gary player playing ??? 52/53 times in masters is a record and today the announcers thought that it appeared this appearance this year might be his last ... perhaps as yet unclear...
arnie niklus 69.121.221.97 (talk) 04:59, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Last Masters

message: Why no mention of these cigarettes? It was a massive sponsorship deal at the time, and they were world-famous. This should be included in the biography.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.163.175.181 (talk) 16:03, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gary Player Specials 

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message: I removed two full paragraphs in this edit. Both used this as a source. That is a personal website and those fail WP:RS. What was written, was first published at the Guardian here. A newspaper oped would be a RS except if one looks closely at the website, this was a unsolicited oped submitted to the Guardian by its author. What if any kind of factchecking it underwent before publication is unknown. Therefore I think we can't use anything from it in the Player article....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 21:11, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Explanation for My December 29 edit

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message: Q: Should we be including the Tyco Golf Skills Challenge in Players win totals?
It was not a recognized professional golf tournament. Accordingly, Player's win in 1995 is not counted as a tournament victory by the majority of reliable sources, including his own website and the World Golf Hall of Fame. Therefore, we should also not be including it. wjematherplease leave a message... 14:46, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: No we shouldn't. It is just like winning the Masters Par 3 tournament. That's not a recognized win either....William, is the complaint department really on the roof? 14:48, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

text: No. Just a bit of fun. Not real golf anyway, just golf shots. Nigej (talk) 15:15, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

text: A par 3 event is real golf, if played properly according to the rules. "Each hole starts with a stroke from the teeing area and ends when the ball is holed on the putting green (or when the Rules otherwise say the hole is completed)." (Rule 1.1) The Tyco Golf Skills Challenge is not golf. Nigej (talk) 15:27, 25 August 2020 (UTC)

text: This is not the place for a discussion on the merits of the Tylenol Par-3 Shootout. Use either that talkpage or WT:GOLF. wjematherplease leave a message... 17:39, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tyco Golf Skills Challenge 

message: I've again removed the erroneous "Kronenbrau Championship", as this is actually the Kronenbrau Masters, the sponsored name of the South African Masters in 1978 & 1979. wjematherplease leave a message... 22:10, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. Must be the same thing. See eg http://history.saga.co.za/index4b61.html?id=121 which says "Calvin Peete was the next non-White golfer after Lee Elder to visit South Africa and played in the Kronenbrau Tournament at Milnerton.  That was in 1979." No sign in any contemporary newspaper of a separate event. The 1979 South African Masters was played at Milnerton and Peete played in it, all indicating that they are one and same event. Nigej (talk) 06:43, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kronenbrau Championship