Glad I watched this until the end because even though I knew Player was a little guy, it was amazing to see how everybody really towered over him. A small man but an enormous competitor.

YES for Player! YES for Gary Player! Man, Vin Scully could call anything.

@gregrambo606

3 жыл бұрын

The greatest all-around sportscaster that's ever lived. The obvious first choice for the Mt. Rushmore of sports broadcasters.

Used to love watching Hubert Green…..another unsung champion…winner of two majors I believe

@sadudeev

Ай бұрын

Hubert won US Open in '77 and PGA in '85

We revere Nicklaus for his sterling 65 in the 1986 Masters. How is it we miss the Gary Player 64 in the 1978 Masters? At 42, this round should be as memorialized as Jack's, yet we don't hear about it as much.

@robatkinson5813

4 жыл бұрын

Its because Gary Player is a cheater

@thatwilldonicely1314

4 жыл бұрын

@@robatkinson5813 there is a legend that Jack Nicklaus said to player at the finish of the 1974 British open. "your not going to accept the trophy are you Gary?"

@indy_go_blue6048

4 жыл бұрын

@@robatkinson5813 Do, pray tell, how was Player a cheater? You know what a legend is, right? An old story that may or may not be true.

@michaelrowell7798

3 жыл бұрын

It is because he is a non American, and ofc we know that golf history is written in the US.

@Rosary1971

Жыл бұрын

How do you cheat at golf ? . All those people cameras and so on . I don't think so .

Nicklaus, Player. Watson, Ballesteros, Trevino, etc all in their playing prime. Wonderful to watch

The classiest sports championship trophy presentation I've ever seen. The comments by Palmer and Player were the highlight of this wonderful event.

47:30 Gary Player later commented how Seve, once he was personally out of the tournament, would want you to win. Seve loved that birdie putt that Player holed. RIP Seve.

@randyingram5380

4 жыл бұрын

Look at Seve's smile after hugging Gary , Happy Birthday

RIP Vin Scully. More known for baseball, obviously, but this was one of seven Masters he called for CBS. A great call by Vin of Gary Player's birdie on 18

These past Master's are simply brilliant!!!! Thank u so much for uploading golf history!!!

Amazing. Thank you for uploading all these final rounds. It's a real treasure.

Seeing Seve in his young prime breaks my heart.....what a wonderful gifted genius of a player he was. So loved across the world and so sadly missed, he was my sporting hero as a kid but its great that these masters last days can be seen.

@fradaja

3 жыл бұрын

If he only knew what was ahead

@voice_of_reason5604

Жыл бұрын

Bet he learned a lot seeing Gary Player play one of the greatest final rounds in the history of all Major championships.

One interesting note about the broadcast of the final round of the 1978 Masters was that is was shorter than some of the other final round broadcasts of that period. The reason was that the final round of the 1978 Masters was played on the same day that John Havlicek played his final game for the Boston Celtics, and CBS scheduled that Celtics game to run right before their final round coverage of the Masters, and it ran long, cutting substantially into what was intended to be the time window for CBS' coverage of the final round of the '78 Masters.

@DanStrayer

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting tidbit. Leaves me to wonder: Would Brent have been on the Masters crew back then?

@cjs83172

3 жыл бұрын

@@DanStrayer No, because he was the #1 play-by-play man on CBS' NBA broadcasts from the 1974-'75 season through the 1979-'80 season, and on this day, he was in Boston to cover Havlicek's final game. Some time between 1981 and '84, he joined CBS' Masters announce team as the host.

Nobody that ever picked up a golf bat had or has the passion of Gary Player, he has lived two lives up to now.

Gary Player was and still is a real gentleman.

@robatkinson5813

4 жыл бұрын

Hes a cheater thou

@prestonphelps1649

Жыл бұрын

agreed. However, as a father lacking...... kids didnt turn out well.

@stephenmcqually2983

3 ай бұрын

Also initially supported apartheid...so....

47:25 One of the greatest non-baseball calls for Vin Scully. Really wished he would have done more golf. RIP to a gentleman & a legend in the broadcast booth!

Gary Player was my hero growing up. I still consider him the greatest player, pound-for-pound, of all time.

R.I.P. Hubert Green. This was the closest he ever got to a Green Jacket, but he had his chances on 16 and 18.

@nicholasschroeder3678

3 жыл бұрын

One of the more distinctive players of that day with his caddy swing and putting style. Really miss those days when they didn't all look, swing, and play the same. Think of Green, Palmer, Wadkins, Trevino, Floyd, Stadler, Sanders...all great and all distinctive.

@whetedge

3 жыл бұрын

@@nicholasschroeder3678 Miller Barber has to be on that list! :)

3:50 Hogan and Arnie cheers-ing at Augusta, amazing.

@joepalmer3241

4 жыл бұрын

That was some cool film of all those greats. An exclusive group! Jackie Burke is the only one of those guys I have met. You wonder what they talked about. I gather from reading that Mr. Hogan did not respect Arnold Palmer very much. It seems like he resented some of the younger players who could spray their drive and still compete on the greens.

Vin Scully- greatest all-around sportscaster that ever lived; not even close.

First time I have seen this and great t see all the greats up there in a fantastic tournament. Augusta looks in wonderful condition and apart from the length you recognise all the holes as today. Greens are a bit slower that's all. Loved seeing Seve hugging Player on the 18th when he makes birdie. Such passion and genuine joy for him. Would loved to have seen Nicklaus Player Seve Watson and Trevino go against Tiger and today's bombers. Game on boys 😀

How’s that for a leaderboard at 39:52? Player, Green, Watson, Nicklaus, Irwin.

Back then when CBS cuts the NBA LIVE coverage between the Boston Celtics (led by the late John Havlicek on his last basketball game) against the Buffalo Braves (also this was the very last game of the Buffalo Braves before the franchise relocated from Buffalo to San Diego and become the Clippers) to give way the final round of the 1978 Masters Golf Tournament... From Brent Musburger (NBA) to Vin Scully (Masters Tournament). From the old Boston Garden (1928-1995) (NBA) to Augusta Golf Club (Masters Tournament).

Wonderful - thank you so much for this !!!

This is one of the best Masters ever along with the 1996 one

Watson at 14th three putting..wow. That was the one big flaw in Tom's game, how many short putts did he miss at critical stages of big tournaments? Could have won a whole lot more, but that's golf I suppose..

How have I never seen this

Some great footage of those Masters legends

Such class acts. a true inspiration

I love Gary Player. He's the same now as he was 40+ years ago.

@planetX15

4 жыл бұрын

@Paul Little In what way?

@ysgol3

3 жыл бұрын

@@planetX15 Oh just the way he thinks speaks and acts. Nothing else.

1978 TV Announcers 11 & 12: Pat Summerall 13: Jack Whittaker 14: Ken Venturi 15: Ben Wright 16: Jim Thacker 17: Frank Glieber 18: Vin Scully I don't know the name of the letter font used for the onscreen info graphics. It was used only in 1978 by CBS for its PGA Tour & Masters Coverage. The 1978 graphics are my 2nd favorite, topped only to those used by CBS from 1992 to 1996.

@johnnyballenatl

6 жыл бұрын

tubiephrank0707 Dunno, but NBC (who first broadcast the Masters before CBS would from 1956 on) would use that font extensively in the late ‘70s-early ‘80s.

@shanejones8884

4 жыл бұрын

I like the 1986-91 font the best

The up and down for Hubert Green on 12 was all world

I'm surprised this tournament doesn't get replayed in the same kind of light as years like 1960, 1975 or of course 1986. This one had it all, a huge comeback by a legend, and drama to the very end starring two of the OTHER best players of the era (and Rod Funseth.) I mean... 4 way tie with 5 holes to go, 3 way tie with 3 holes to go... Drama at its finest.

@cjs83172

6 жыл бұрын

Actually, it did. Ten years ago, CBS aired a one-hour special commemorating the 30th anniversary of Player's final major championship and aired quite a bit of the original broadcast as part of the program. The irony, of course, was the Masters that year (2008) was won by another South African, Trevor Immelman.

Fantastic - especially the film of the old champions at the start.

Dang that was legendary ! What gentlemen! Just awesome...

Has to be said: Hubert Green was absolute class in the cabin. Blamed himself for the missed putt on 18, quite rightly, when others would have blamed the announcer. Amazing swing too.

@healthyone100

Жыл бұрын

Allways liked Hubert Green rip!

What a wonderful commentary and excellent questions by Arnold Palmer. Vince Scully was also superb. The camera work of CBS however left a lot to be desired. They inexcusably failed to show Tom Watson's errant drive on the 18th hole which lost the tournament for him and also had a terrible position on Gary Player's magnificent match winning birdie putt on the 18th hole. The camera man should have been fired.

such an epic sight seeing that room full of green jackets!!

What a great win by Gary.

Player, pound for pound, arguably the greatest athlete of all time.

I find it interesting that there's a garbage truck in the background of the 18th hole of the Masters on Sunday national TV!

4.17 pretty amazing coming together of 3 of the finest players ever

I love how so many guys used to wear the green pants on Sunday. Bold statement.

Vin Scully had a perfect voice and demeanor for golf, and his descriptions of play framed the action beautifully. And how unfortunate that Trevino and Augusta National were like oil and water....just not the kind of course for a fader of the ball.

@michaelrowell7798

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly what I thought, given the excitement the Merry Mex could generate with his play and interaction with the gallery.

@nicholasschroeder3678

Ай бұрын

Trevino has said it was Robert's rotten treatment of him, not the course itself--which he loved--that soured him on the tournament. But at the time, criticism of Roberts was taboo, so he made up a story for the reporters.

Amazing interview by Palmer

Coming from Apartheid South Africa, Player walks off with his arms embracing his black caddy. Charlie Sifford said no one did more for him in addressing racism in gold than Gary Player. A truly great humanitarain.

tough to watch my favorite player Watson three putt to lose the lead and then have Player take it down with a crazy downhilll putt. only thing worse was Watson losing the british open on the last hole at age 59

@davidr5961

5 жыл бұрын

And then he lost, in a playoff the following year at Augusta, to Fuzzy, which was a great finish

@patrickdumass7611

5 жыл бұрын

Also a big Watson fan. Couldn't believe that miss from 2 feet on 14. Agree with the 2009 Open being even worse.

@voiceofreason8604

4 жыл бұрын

Can’t win them all. Watson in his prime, which really starts in earnest from the British Open latter in 1977, was a great clutch player. But his prime was only from 1977-84.

@nicholasschroeder3678

3 жыл бұрын

@@voiceofreason8604 Agree. But I can't agree with 77-84 being a short reign at the top. He was the best in the world for more than 5 years. Woods, Nicklaus, Hogan, Jones, Hagen, Nelson, and Palmer are really the only others in that class. Like Palmer, by 35 he lost his edge. It was hard to watch. Nicklaus and Player managed to keep it going. [Player, great as he was, could never make the claim that he was the world's best. Neither could Sam Snead.]

@Guitarpick1770

2 жыл бұрын

If Watson had managed to win the 2009 British Open, it would have been the greatest victory in golf history. He came so close.

I know this is a broadcast but the greens seem slower on the Bermuda than they are today on the Bentgrass.

What's with the bent posture on so many of these guys? Too many hours practice putting?

Listen very closely -> @38:15 . I think it’s Hale Irwin being very honest after his tee shot on 17. I sometimes forget that they’re not always loving the game.

3:50 Hogan and Arnie clink glasses at the champions dinner.

2nd year in a row the final pairing are dressed very alike... 1977 featured an orange pants pairing

Always about putting

Great putt by Gary Player at 47:12. Ties a then-course record of 64 to become oldest champion at the time. Young Seve hugs him as if he had won it himself! Then a minute later defending champion Tom Watson holes an exciting putt at 16. An exciting Masters, a bit overshadowed by '86, but with the same ingredients: an older legend makes a comeback and several players fail to hole putts on 18 to tie. Could we hope for the same in 2018, 40 years later? At 1:17:10: Green has to step away from his putt to tie because he overheard a radio announcer saying something. Anticlimatic!

@cjs83172

6 жыл бұрын

Another similarity between 1978 and 1986 is this. When Gary Player made his improbable run to overtake the leaders and grab his final major championship, his playing partner was someone who would learn how to win then Masters, and within two years, take the title himself. In 1980, Seve Ballesteros, who was paired with Player in the final round in '78, ran away with the title, and in 1988, Sandy Lyle, who was paired with Nicklaus in the final round in '86, took what he saw on that fateful day to grab the title with one of the most memorable fairway bunker shots ever hit two years later.

The players seemed to have attacked the pin more often in those days, slower greens perhaps?

@untexan

4 жыл бұрын

They used a different kind of grass on the greens back then... they were a lot slower

@untexan

4 жыл бұрын

They used a different kind of grass on the greens back then... they were a lot slower

@indy_go_blue6048

4 жыл бұрын

They varied from year to year d/t the type of grass, mowing, and amount of rain. I have a story from an early round in '57 or '58 in which the greens were so fast that the player literally had to run to his ball to prevent it from rolling back down the hill.

4:15 The original "Big Three". Most likely the last time they were seen together at the same event.

@hutzman7664

3 жыл бұрын

Danny Rand incredible video!

This tournament definitely got away from Watson and Green. Green three putting on 16 and missing the birdie on 18, Watson three putting on 14 and bogeying the 18th. The 18th wasn't a kind hole for Tom Watson, it went pear shaped for him there as well in 1991.

At the end, green jacket without shoes, ha ha .... Still top class player, Gary

Why do golfers at 40 plus look so much older than players today, it's like once u reached 40 plus back then u were done. Well done Gary.

@indy_go_blue6048

4 жыл бұрын

No sunblockers until the '80s.

Player was the hottest player in the world in ‘78. Almost won the US Open later that year

Geez I forgot just how horizontally striped the 70s were.

This is surely golf's most overlooked great round...Someone else explained that the telecast was shortened due to CBS's commitment to covering a Celtics game that ran over. So, there weren't as many memories created on the day of the event, and until recently there wasn't that much footage available of Player's epic round. I now see at 46:58 that even what ought to have been the signature moment of his round was televised via split screen and from an odd angle...Player also suffered in that era by dint of his being from South Africa at a time when the world's consciousness was rising regarding that nation's heinous apartheid political system.

@indy_go_blue6048

4 жыл бұрын

@jack brandt Nobody cares about U of SA's heinous system today either, because the victims aren't po pos.

Jack Whittaker. Hasn't been anyone like him since.

@jojojo6147

5 жыл бұрын

Was banned from the Masters for 5 yrs after saying "mob" on the broadcast.

@tomhilterbrant1286

5 жыл бұрын

@@jojojo6147 Yes, and Gary McCord was banned for referring to the 17th green as being "bikini-waxed." No accounting for taste when you are dealing with the Masters Elite.

@jojojo6147

5 жыл бұрын

Lol, gotta love McCord. Whittaker is an all time great.

I always love looking at the way guys dressed back then. Tom Watson, Seve, and Gary player are impeccably dressed. Hubert Green and Funseth are wearing an almost identical outfit. What do you think the conversation was like at the first tee? Bro, you should have called me first lol

@debbiebrannen8838

4 жыл бұрын

This was when many of the players were wearing sansa belt slacks look close..No belt

13:24 Champions Swing!

This is why Nicolas is better than Tiger, he had much stronger competition than Tiger ever had and at this stage Jack is still 3 ahead

@BengaliJoddha

3 жыл бұрын

Don't say a word..

@marknorris1381

2 жыл бұрын

Woods will never bridge the gap. He should have, but won't now.

Tom should've won this, and in '91.

@binkyxz3

5 жыл бұрын

I should have married Miss America, 1982.

Sève at 16 🤦‍♂️. Classic though, maybe that moment inspired Van de Velde many years later.

what a great watch - stunning players - Green has a depressing demeanour though

6:12 did that ball bounce before the water and land accross???

64 shut the door. Am I right.

Why is Player already wearing the Green Jacket?

@MrAJR76

6 күн бұрын

Because he was a past champion.

Two Hoosiers Krazert and Armstrong in contention.

Palmer was very honest when interviewing the losers!

Maybe in the Top 5 Masters finishes of all time. The length of coverage dosent do Gary Players run justice because he was only -4 for the tournament through 8 holes. Maybe the best Masters Sunday up to that point.On a side note David Graham is the oldest looking 31 year old I’ve ever seen!

@baseballman4958

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it’s not that he looked bad, just looks like a 50 year old by today’s standards.

@LB1973

3 жыл бұрын

@@baseballman4958 Football/Soccer player Bobby Charlton was the one that always got me he looked about 60 age 24

Gary player is by far the least talked about great to play the game and is easily the second best all time behind Jack and tiger

@DodderingOldMan

5 жыл бұрын

You reckon? I would have said he's one of the best known and most revered golfers of all time, behind only Woods, Nicklaus and maybe Arnold Palmer.

@chrismorfas7515

4 жыл бұрын

Being behind Jack and Tiger would make him third ;-) but you have a point.

@garyroberts3859

4 жыл бұрын

Very strange comment, it’s the big 3 of this era including Player but not 3rd best of all time, that has to be Hogan

Funseth snd green in uniform…lol😊

30:06 Nicklaus forgot to take his glove off while putting

@greatwhiteshark9192

6 ай бұрын

Jack always putted with his glove on

24:24 Tom Watson shocker !

@nicholasschroeder3678

3 жыл бұрын

Funseth did something similar. And Green 3 jabbed 16. Those greens are greased. Watson, as he--irritated--pointed out in the cabin rallied and birdied 15 and 16. It was really the drive at 18 that was a choke.

@keiththompson2172

3 жыл бұрын

@@nicholasschroeder3678 I know but 3-putt from 6-feet at that time so bad

Green choked like Duval In 2001

@markbrown-bk1lr

Ай бұрын

More like Norman 96

Player's 9th and final major. Tying Ben Hogan. And Clifford Roberts. He committed suicide by shooting himself in the head.

@daddynme

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, on the grounds of Augusta.

@indy_go_blue6048

4 жыл бұрын

Your sentence doesn't make it clear that it was Roberts who killed himself, not Player.

@wiedep

18 күн бұрын

@@indy_go_blue6048 With Gary Player's attitudes, Roberts may have wanted to go after him but South Africa was too far away.

3:10 jack whitaker

When did they finally stop using the phrase "playing partner" instead of the accurate "fellow competitor"?

Pretty impressive the last 3 irons Green played. Just couldn't get any of the putts to drop. This victory for Player over Green and Watson was as impressive as Nicklaus' in 86 over Kite and Norman. But it's kinda forgotten because Player isn't Ameican and--at least I think so--his naked competitiveness and relentless self-promotion make him kinda unlikable.

Notice how unique each player was back then. They had their own style and own personality. Nowadays, they all dress exactly the same, have zero personality, and zero manliness.

Watson terrible three putt on 14 cost him a playoff with player 😊

Every single caddie was black. Interesting. Was that mandatory or planned?

@kidpagronprimsank05

4 жыл бұрын

Mandatory until 1982.

@nillejoslin

4 жыл бұрын

Was it a rule that the caddie had to be black?!

@daddynme

4 жыл бұрын

@@nillejoslin golfers were required to use the caddies from Augusta. All of the caddies at Augusta were black by rule. (no black golfers were allowed at the Masters until 1975 BTW)

@nillejoslin

4 жыл бұрын

@@daddynme Thanks! Confirmed by wikipedia article.

@nillejoslin

3 жыл бұрын

@C. Buck Hyres This thread was about the caddies (although I see that Scott Cowell mentioned players).

Interesting at the start to see that old queen Ben Hogan trying to seduce Arnold Palmer.

1:17:05 that is the ugliest putting stance I have ever seen

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