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List of polo players. Add languages. Add links. Article; Talk; ... (1903–1957) - England's last 10 goal player; ... This page was last edited on 15 December 2024, ...
The players are rated on a scale from minus-2 to 10. Minus-2 indicates a novice player, while a player rated at 10 goals has the highest handicap possible. It is so difficult to attain a 10-goal handicap that there are fewer than two dozen in the world, and about two-thirds of all players handicapped are rated at two goals or less.
That same year, he also won the US Open and the British Open Gold Cup, becoming the only player in history to win the Grand Slam of Polo, in 1987, a feat he replicated twice, in 1988 and 1994. Alongside his brother Guillermo Gracida (often referred to as Memo), Gracida won Player of the Year in America five times, the only other player to do so ...
Pieres began traveling to America to play polo in 1980, when he held an eight-goal handicap. His handicap had been raised to 10 within a few years. [1] Gonzalo Pieres is recognized for turning professional polo players, into real sport professionals. He won the Argentine Open nine times, and the United States Polo Association Gold Cup seven ...
Guillermo "Memo" Gracida Jr. (born July 25, 1956) is a Mexican polo player whose international career includes several record-setting achievements, including the most U.S. Open victories (16) and the most consecutive years as an American 10-goaler (21). These feats and dozens of major tournament wins led to Gracida's selection as Player of the ...
The polo legend has been called one of the greatest polo players of all time. Pushing 50 years old, the athlete has already racked up quite the resume when it comes to wins in the sport.
Tommy Wayman is an American polo player (retired). [1] [2] [3] Wayman was a ten-goal player. [2] [4] He won six U.S. Open Polo Championships, a Gold Cup, two World Cups, two Butler Handicap, and three Pacific Coast Open titles. [1] He played on the U.S.A. team against Argentina in the Cup of the Americas and won two Coronation Cups against ...
Born in Aiken, South Carolina, Hitchcock learned the sport of polo from his parents, Louise and Thomas Hitchcock Sr. His father was a U.S. Racing Hall of Fame horse trainer who had been a 10-goal polo player and helped found the Meadowbrook Polo Club on Long Island, New York, and who captained the American team in the inaugural 1886 International Polo Cup.