RTJ On Gary Player: “He has not demonstrated an ability to design courses of championship quality."

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Robert Trent Jones Jr. rebuts the criticism of Gary Player and even takes a fashion jab, call it competitive dissing because these two are still vying for jobs.

From Global Golf Post.

Jones also spoke briefly to ESPN.com's Gene Wojciechowski, who put together quite a roundup of player gripes about the greens, especially from Ernie Els. There was this from Jones:

"Gary Player is welcome to his opinion -- and he has many of them ... I don't take it personally.
"He's a competitor, he's a golf architect. He's never had a U.S. Open course, I know that."

Irony alert: Saturday would have been the 109th birthday of Jones' father, the legendary golf architect Robert Trent Jones Sr. It was Senior who designed Bellerive Country Club in St. Louis.

The winner of the 1965 U.S. Open at Bellerive: Player.