Palmas Athletic Club (Palm)

Gary Player, the youngest of three children born to Harry and Muriel Player, had a tough start in life. Tragically his mother died when he was only eight years old. Player later wrote that his sad loss “has been a means for me, as it were, to settle some unfathomable debt.”

Ron Kirby went to Washington Elementary and Briscoe Junior High, graduating from Beverly High School in 1950. He then went to turf school at the University of Massachusetts on a Francis Ouimet Caddy Scholarship, attending Saturday morning art classes at Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He left his studies due to a change in his draft status classification, joining the Coast Guard in 1951.