Sport: What Gary Wants

"I have five goals," said South Africa's matter-of-fact Gary Player when he first arrived in the U.S. "I want to win the U.S. Open, the British Open, the Masters and the P.G.A. And I want to be the top money winner on the American tour." That was five years ago, and Player's fellow pros have since learned that what Gary wants, Gary may get. At 26, Player is running out of goals: he won the British Open in 1959, the Masters in 1961, topped all pros in money winnings (with $64,540) last year. Last week...

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