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‘TRAINING LIKE A 40-YEAR-OLD’

“WE ARE LIVING IN EXTRAORDINARY TIMES. THIS IS NOT life as we have come to know it,” says South Africa’s nine-time Grand Slam golfer, Gary Player, who has been in lockdown with his wife Vivienne, in Pennsylvania, in the United States (US) since March.

The couple are visiting their daughter Amanda-Leigh Hall and her family. But Player had arrived in the US to also receive what he calls one of the greatest honors of his life, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, from President Donald Trump at the White House on March 23; some of the past recipients

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