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Golf

This Masters Player’s last

Three-time champion Gary Player announced that this year’s Masters – his record 52nd – will be his last.

For one decade after another, Player teed it up with the greats of the game at Augusta National, hanging around long enough to see yet another wave of promising young golfers arrive on the scene, mere teens born long after Player won the last of his three green jackets in 1978.

Player hasn’t made the cut since 1998, when at age 62 he became the oldest player to reach the weekend at Augusta (a record eclipsed two years later by 63-year-old Tommy Aaron).

He did play long enough to set the mark for most Masters appearances, snapping a tie with Arnold Palmer by playing in his 51st last year.

Player has a career grand slam and nine major titles in all.

He won his first Masters in 1961, another in ’74, and his final one in ’78 at age 42.

Auction

You can wax over your hero

If watching your sports heroes on video isn’t enough, how about owning them in wax?

Hand-sculpted wax figures of Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Joe Montana, Mike Tyson, Muhammad Ali, Mark McGwire and Hulk Hogan will be put up for auction May 1.

The Hollywood Wax Museum is auctioning off more than 200 figures, including athletes.

Bids may be placed through the Profiles in History auction house in Calabasas, Calif.

Horse racing

Churchill Downs under the lights

Churchill Downs is going to work overtime in an effort to drum up a little business this summer.

The home of the Kentucky Derby received permission from the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission to hold night racing for the first time in the track’s 135-year history. Churchill Downs will run under the lights on three nights.