{"id":164912,"date":"2017-10-31T09:26:35","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T07:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/164912\/need-know-sa-hall-fame-sun-city\/"},"modified":"2017-11-06T11:48:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T09:48:09","slug":"need-know-sa-hall-fame-sun-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2017\/10\/31\/need-know-sa-hall-fame-sun-city\/","title":{"rendered":"What you need to know about the SA Hall of Fame at Sun City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At an induction ceremony dubbed Knight of Hope, Golfing legend <a href=\"http:\/\/garyplayer.com\/the-legend\/world-map\/\" target=\"_blank\">Gary Player<\/a> will be inducted into the\u00a0South African <a href=\"http:\/\/halloffame.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hall of Fame<\/a> at\u00a0Sun City\u2019s iconic Superbowl at Sun Central on 6 November 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed the Black Knight, Mr. Fitness, and the International Ambassador of Golf, Player is also a renowned golf course architect with more than 325 design projects on \ufb01ve continents throughout the world, including the Gary Player Golf Course and the Lost City Golf Course at Sun City.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2017\/10\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rob Collins, Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.suninternational.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sun International<\/a> said: \u201cPlayer, one of South Africa\u2019s most celebrated sportspeople, businessmen and humanitarians, is indeed a most decorous icon to be incorporated into the South African Hall of Fame Powered by Samsung. We are honoured to host the induction ceremony in the lead up to the 2017 Nedbank Golf Challenge which plays out on the Gary Player Country Club golf course for the 36th\u00a0time in November.\u201d<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<h3>The SA Hall of Fame at Sun Central<\/h3>\n<p>The Hall of Fame at Sun Central is a state-of-the-art interactive exhibition space that celebrates the achievements of South Africa\u2019s legends.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-158032\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2017\/10\/4-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-158000\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2017\/10\/Sun-Central-Entertainment.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Located at Sun City\u2019s world class entertainment and convention hub,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suninternational.com\/sun-city\/activities\/sun-central\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sun Central<\/a>,\u00a0the South African Hall of Fame Powered by Samsung opened in November 2015.<\/p>\n<p>A legacy project, it is the first of its kind in South Africa to acknowledge and celebrate South Africans who have achieved greatness across fields such as sport, the arts, culture, science and technology.<\/p>\n<p>Sun Central is the new home of Sun City entertainment. It consists of\u00a0two levels of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suninternational.com\/sun-city\/activities\/kids\/\" target=\"_blank\">family entertainment<\/a>.\u00a0On the ground level, visitors can expect a variety of restaurants, retail outlets and entertainment for the whole family. Sun City&#8217;s famous Superbowl has also been reinvented to host action-packed shows and concerts. The\u00a0South African Hall of Fame is located in this precinct.<\/p>\n<h3>Previous Inductees<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-158028\" src=\"https:\/\/albertonrecord.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/35\/2017\/10\/14.2-Lucas-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"665\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Previous <a href=\"http:\/\/halloffame.co.za\/inductees\/\" target=\"_blank\">inductees<\/a> include Lucas Radebe, Penny Heyns, Jomo Sono, Jody Scheckter, Jacob Matlala, Brian Mitchell and Zola Budd-Pieterse.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='955d37bf43aaf10bb9726333f7701fc4'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golfing legend Gary Player will be inducted into the South African Hall of Fame at Sun City\u2019s iconic Superbowl at Sun Central in November 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7782,"featured_media":165505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Caxton Central","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16291,3],"tags":[16352,16356,16357,16358,16359],"class_list":["post-164912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-gary-player","category-sports-news","tag-gary-player","tag-gary-player-black-knight","tag-gary-player-inducted-sa-hall-of-fame","tag-sa-hall-of-fame-at-sun-city","tag-sun-city-sun-central"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Gary Player"},"tag_labels":["Gary Player","Gary Player Black Knight","Gary Player inducted SA Hall of Fame","SA Hall of Fame at Sun City","Sun City Sun Central"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7782"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}