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Player, Booth pose nude for ESPN the Magazine

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13 years ago

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Jul 10, 2013

By

John Wunder

Once a year, ESPN the Magazine releases its “Body Issue” and the golfing world has been well represented by the likes of Camilo Villegas and Suzanne Petersen. This year, ESPN went with the ultimate ambassador for healthy living in golf, 77-year-old Gary Player.

“Very few people do what I’m doing at my age,” Player told the magazine. “I want to show the world how fit you can be at this age and not just accept being old. I still work on my ranch, I represent a lot of companies, I do golf course design, I’m traveling seven months a year. You’ve got to keep moving. If you sit and watch TV on your backside all day, you’re going to die.”

Photo from ESPN the Magazine

Photos from ESPN the Magazine.

As a huge fan of the Black Knight, I have become more of a fan of the life he leads than his golf. His workout regimens are legendary as seen in this video link below.

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Beyond the work ethic, he has an outlook on life and health that I think any person roaming this planet could look up to. In the video link below, we find Player graciously stopping to discuss the state of health in the U.S. and his passion for making things better.

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ESPN also honored Scottish Ladies European Tour golfer Carly Booth, who notched wins at the tour’s Aberdeen Asset Management Ladies Scottish Open and Deutsche Bank Ladies Swiss Open in 2012.

The 21-year-old has struggled on the Ladies European Tour in 2013, missing the cut in six of her first nine events, but her fifth-place finish on the tour’s Order of Merit in 2012 proves she has game, and the photos below will have U.S. golf fans begging for her to tee it up in the U.S.

Photo from ESPN the Magazine

Photo from ESPN the Magazine.

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Photo from ESPN the Magazine.

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John Wunder

19 Comments

stephenf

Jul 14, 2013 at 2:46 am

Good for him. He’s earned it, and he has a right to be proud. Some of you among the more ignorant ought to get a clue about the positive influence this guy has been on the game for over half a century, not to mention the fact that at one time he was one of the three best players on the planet.

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cg

Jul 10, 2013 at 8:59 pm

I see I would like to see her finish from the back and front…side views are so lame..

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Paul

Jul 10, 2013 at 7:42 pm

It’s all good for the game…!

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Rick

Jul 10, 2013 at 4:48 pm

Gary will do ANYTHING to keep his 15 minutes going, come on.

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- cg
  
  Jul 10, 2013 at 8:58 pm
  
  and gary will say “You will never see Jack or Arnold or Hogan pose naked like I did..and I have done it over 1,000,000 times in 5,000 countries!!!
  all while living on one raisin and a piece of grass.
  
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  - David
    
    Jul 11, 2013 at 1:09 pm
    
    I read that in Gary’s voice. So true.
    
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- TK
  
  Jul 10, 2013 at 9:35 pm
  
  Takes much more than 15 minutes to be 77 and be in such incredible shape, not to mention one of the top 5 golfers of his generation! Pretty sure he’s earned that 15+++
  
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- stephenf
  
  Jul 14, 2013 at 2:44 am
  
  Amazing ignorance. Gary Player’s “15 minutes” has lasted more than half a century. How long did yours last?
  
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Mike

Jul 10, 2013 at 2:50 pm

player is a joke and nothing but!

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- stephenf
  
  Jul 14, 2013 at 2:43 am
  
  You’re a joke, joke. Not in a million years could you ever be as good as he has been or do as much as he has done for the game.
  
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lance

Jul 10, 2013 at 12:26 pm

Gary is a great role model, cuz he doesn’t let his age or anything else for that matter slow him down

And also the passion he has for eating healthy,working out and just being a very healthy person!! And he is a great
Ambasitor for this great game of golf!!

By the way. What is his age?

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tw

Jul 10, 2013 at 12:05 pm

wish i was at chelsea piers when they were doing that shoot…

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Rick Mangles

Jul 10, 2013 at 10:33 am

Ok, Gary Player rules!

Pardon the pun, but that takes balls.

He loves himself….and i love him for that! ha ha ha ha!

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Susan Forbes

Jul 10, 2013 at 10:26 am

Interesting that the two photos of Gary Player show him in an athletic posture while only one of Carly Booth’s does. Seems like framing female athletes a particular way continues.

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- Shark
  
  Jul 10, 2013 at 11:27 am
  
  Your too funny?
  They didn’t put carly in an athletic pose like Gary?
  
  Ok… So she holds a giant golf ball above her head like he does…. And it would expose her breasts…
  Duh!
  I am European minded & wouldn’t care should female athletes go top & bottomless…
  But since its mainstream USA mag…. Dude… Females cannot do all the poses the men can.
  
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- Colin
  
  Jul 10, 2013 at 12:46 pm
  
  You don’t get out much do you?
  
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  - stephenf
    
    Jul 14, 2013 at 2:42 am
    
    Was gonna say.
    
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- jim herblet
  
  Jul 11, 2013 at 8:32 am
  
  give me a BREAK Susan!!
  
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Chris

Jul 10, 2013 at 10:15 am

Yikes!

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