Gary Player’s response when asked if Matt Fitzpatrick could win as many majors as Nick Faldo in 2022

“It’s no more difficult to win nowadays than it was many years ago. You think the players are as good as Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Raymond Floyd? No I don’t think they are as good.

“No one who plays today is anywhere near as good as Tiger Woods, Ben Hogan or Sam Snead.

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“There is no one who is dominating and it’s the first time I can remember you can’t pick three players and say: ‘They are the three best players’.

“You get a guy like DeChambeau coming along and getting people excited winning the US Open and then peters off.

“It’s quite exciting but it shows there is no one who is dominating.”

Fitzpatrick obviously has a long way to go if he is to even get close to matching Faldo’s major haul.

However, judging by the golf he has been playing this season, he will have every chance of doing just that.

Gary Player shared a very strong warning for Matt Fitzpatrick

Player had some strong words of advice after Fitzpatrick’s first major championship win.

“We are going through a very interesting stage in golf now,” Player told the PA news agency.

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“There must be 12 major championship winners that can’t play any more. This never happened in the history of golf.

“The teaching today is the worst it has ever been and yet they have all the technology in the world.

“There are at least 12 guys who won one or two majors and, as soon as they win, for some unknown reason they go and have lessons from people who have never been in the arena and don’t know what they are talking about but are great salesmen.

“Teachers today are very good for members and juniors but when it comes to teaching a player on the tour you have to know what you are doing and most of those who are teaching have flat-ruined careers.

“Don’t see a soul. Stay away from them, absolutely.

“A lot of what they are teaching players today is such rubbish. The stuff they are teaching is poison, no wonder these guys can’t play any more. It’s very sad to see.”