All-Time Champion Player Returns to San Antonio for
2006 AT&T Championship

SAN ANTONIO–October 2, 2006:  Gary Player, golf’s globe-trotting ambassador and legend, has committed to play in the 2006 AT&T Championship presented by Alcatel, October 16-22 at Oak Hills Country Club in San Antonio, joining an already stellar field for the late season Champions Tour event.

Player, 71, was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974 and is only one of five golfers to win the career grand slam for major championships. Known around the world as the ‘The Black Knight” he is the only player in the 20^th Century to win the British Open in three different decades.

This will be his ninth visit to San Antonio for the AT&T Championship; a tournament he finished tied for second in 1993 and ’96, but hasn’t played in since 2002.

The ever-optimistic Player said he was thrilled to be returning to the Alamo City in October.

“I have more passion, energy and enjoyment for the game than ever,” he said. “I love golf and playing as much as I ever have.”

Player’s return to San Antonio in October allows him to join fellow and possible future World Golf Hall of Fame members like Lee Trevino, defending champion Jay Haas and star rookie Fred Funk.

“The addition of a great champion like Gary Player only strengthens an already impressive field for the Championship,” said Tournament Director Colby Callaway. “I’m thrilled that Mr. Player has decided to join the return of great champions to Oak Hills next month.”

In 1996 en route to his second runner-up performance here, Player opened with a career low round of 67 in San Antonio to tie for the early lead and finished with a 68 sandwiched between a 74.

This year’s return will give him a chance to add the AT&T Championship to the nearly 140 victories he has won world wide including 19 on the Champions Tour and 24 on the PGA Tour.

He has shot his age twice on the Champions Tour, most recently at the 2005 Bank of America Championship outside of Boston. He’s played in 49 Masters Golf Tournaments and opened last April’s event with the first birdie of the tournament on the par 4 first hole at Augusta National Golf Club.

“I’m still as active and as eager on the golf course as ever and that has kept me going in this game all these years,” he said.

A golf course designer, owner of golf academies, a large children’s foundation along with a racing stable of horses, Player recently became involved in a golf development in Marshall Ranch, Texas.

“The Black Knight is coming to San Antonio.”  That’s going to be a lot of fun to say.” Callaway added.

Tickets to see Player, Trevino, Haas, Funk, San Antonio’s Bill Rogers and many other golfing greats at the 2006 AT&T Championship are available by calling 210-698-3582 or fans can find more information by going to attchamp.com .