SOUTHPORT, England — I’m not proud of the fact that I ate a cookie in front of Gary Player, but it wasn’t just any cookie. It was chocolate chip with a coating of milk chocolate on the bottom, which I thought made it too interesting to pass up.
Also in my defense — and you might need to sit down when I tell you this — Gary Player ate one first. I swear on a stack of Kit-Kats. And even more stunning is that after I ate mine, the 81-year-old fitness and health marvel went in for round No. 2. At that point, I couldn’t resist asking him about it.
“Well, I worked out today,” Player said. “And when I work out, I work out.”