Shining a spotlight on celebrities and athletes who love to travel. Created and developed by Stacy Steponate Greenberg. There are many people in sports to whom the word ?icon” has been attached, too many perhaps, as it diminishes the importance of the word for the cases where they truly apply. Such as in the case […]The post The Overhead Compartment with Gary Player appeared first on Pursuitist.

Shining a spotlight on celebrities and athletes who love to travel. Created and developed by Stacy Steponate Greenberg.There are many people in sports to whom the word ?icon” has been attached, too many perhaps, as it diminishes the importance of the word for the cases where they truly apply. Such as in the case of Gary Player, an icon; one of the greatest players and international ambassadors the game of golf has ever known. Known around the globe as “The Black Knight,” the South African legend won nine Major Championships during his career, as well as six more Majors on the Champions Tour. Player was only 29 years old when he won the 1965 US Open, making him the first, and still the only, international player to win all four Majors. In 1974, he was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame; it is very likely that no one in history has traveled more miles playing the game of golf than Gary Player. Throughout his career Player was also a fitness junkie, his nickname was Mr. Fitness, and recently in celebrating his 81st birthday, a worldwide campaign #81S...