WATCH: Gary Player goes on hilarious rant about green-reading golf books

What is your stance on players using green-reading books? 

gary player goes on hilarious rant about green reading books
gary player goes on hilarious rant about green reading books

WATCH: Gary Player goes on hilarious rant about green-reading golf books

Gary Player has blasted Tour professionals who use green-reading books in order to help them read the break of putts better.

Player was joined by 18-time record major champion Jack Nicklaus in a press conference at the Masters, where the legendary duo addressed a number of issues affecting the game of golf in 2018. 

Whatever your take on green-reading books, you will likely appreciate Player's rant which has a 'get off my lawn' feel about it...

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WATCH: Gary Player goes on hilarious rant about green-reading golf books

"I'm flabbergasted.



I’m not gonna criticise it, but I find it hard to understand when you have in a tournament, I see these guys bringing out a book when they get on the green to look where to putt.



Really I find this very hard to understand. I and Jack have played many golf courses and exhibitions that we never played the golf course before we broke the course record.



I go to a golf course, you can put me on any golf course in the world, I can read the putt as well as if I played it ten times. I’m a professional golfer, this is something I’ve got to be able to do.

WATCH: Gary Player goes on hilarious rant about green-reading golf books

And the South African legend did not stop there. He's not going to criticise it. Just keep remembering that...

When I go to a golf tournament and you see guys having three practice rounds, then they play two rounds, that’s five rounds on a golf course. Now they’re playing in the tournament and they look at the book where to putt. But I’m not gonna criticise it.

Nicklaus then got involved. 

I think you’re absolutely dead right. I think it’s absolutely absurd. You’ve gotta swing coach, a mental coach, a chef, a pilot. You got everything. And now you’ve got a book to tell you how to do it. And it’s also done by somebody who can’t break 90.

WATCH: Gary Player goes on hilarious rant about green-reading golf books

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Nicklaus, however, did sort of go back on his initial comment by saying he would have had no hesitation in using a green-reading book had he been presented one back in the day. 

That said, if it were all given to me back when I started in 1962 on the tour, I probably would have done exactly the same thing.

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