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Gary Player is a big believer that one can’t go through life without love. Even at age 89, he’s never too old to find it. Player happily shared his big news at the PNC Championship.

He has a new girlfriend.

“I said I wanted to live until 100. Now if I live to 91, I’ll be happy,” Player said with a laugh. “Isn’t that amazing that at 89 you can find a girlfriend? She loves everything I love — golf, fishing, gym work, reading, opera, everything.”

Her name is Susan Waterfall, she lives in New York and she’s 83. Player’s wife, Vivienne, died in 2021. They had been married for 64 years.

Player said he wasn’t searching. Friends approached him during a fundraiser at Leopard Creek in South Africa about a woman he should meet. It never happened. He was in New York for a golf course design when someone else brought up her name. Again, they never connected. Then he was invited to be an honorary member for a new golf course in Miami, where memberships go for about $1.3 million.

“I’m on the putting green and this lady comes up and says, ‘I’m Susan Waterfall. Everyone has been trying to introduce us,’” Player said. “I put my arm around her — she’s gorgeous — and I said, ‘I love this country, America, so much. I’ve got to have an American girlfriend.’ She blushes, doesn’t say anything. So I said, ‘Will you come to dinner with me?’”

He called her two days later in New York — he says she stepped out of a board meeting to take his call — and they headed to Gleneagles in Scotland to go fishing.

“She’s very rich,” he said. “I said, ‘Listen, Susan, I don’t need your money. I’m also rich. You don’t need my money. But if you die before me, you can leave me a little.’”