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RTJ fires back at Player for Chambers Bay rant

It seems unlikely Robert Trent Jones Jr. and Gary Player will collaborate on a design project anytime soon.

A few days after Player unleased an epic rant about U.S. Open host Chambers Bay, the course’s designer fired back in a story that appeared earlier this week in Global Golf Post, saying that Player has “not demonstrated an ability to design courses of championship quality.”

“Gary Player was a strong player but is so no longer,” Jones said, according to the report. “He is now an architect. He has not demonstrated an ability to design courses of championship quality.