Legends to gather at Sun City for Player Invitational
Liverpool legend Kenny Dalglish, boxing great Brian Mitchell, Springbok rugby star Victor Matfield and footballers Mark Fish, Shaun Bartlett and Jimmy Tau and other sports stars, celebrities and Sunshine Tour professionals, will attend the inaugural Gary and Vivienne Player Invitational at the Lost City Golf Course at Sun City from November 19 to 20.
The biggest names in sport and business will come together in aid of a charity tournament that celebrates the life and legacy of the late Vivienne Player and the work of the Gary and Vivenne Player Foundation to raise funds for the underprivileged.
The beneficiary for the 2022 Invitational is the Blair Atholl PrePrimary School, located alongside the Blair Atholl Golf and Equestrian Estate and originally founded by Gary and Vivienne Player on what was then their family farm.
The other sports stars who will support this initiative are rugby legends Butch James, Akona and Odwa Ndungane, Patrick Lambie, Stefan Terblanche and Owen Nkumane, Proteas cricketers Herschelle Gibbs and Vernon Philander, former Bafana Bafana footballers Matthew Booth, Aaron Mokoena and Mark Williams, and renowned South African women golfer Sally Little.
The field includes the top 18 professionals from the Sunshine Tour’s Gary and Vivienne Player Challenge played at Selborne Park Golf Club in September, as well as the leading five professionals outside the top 18 who are also a part of the Papwa Sewgolum Class for historically disadvantaged golfers on the Tour.