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Gary Player has paid tribute to compatriot Louis Oosthuizen after his emphatic triumph at the Open Championship last weekend.
Oosthuizen blitzed the field at St Andrews to eventually win his maiden major crown by a stunning seven-shot margin.
Player - who won a total of nine major titles, including three Open crowns - heaped praise on his fellow South African and insists the 27-year-old has the game to go on to further glory.
"What a fantastic win," he told Sky Sports. "To win by seven strokes, and he was so cool coming down the line.
"And what a beautiful golf swing he's got, this young man can really play and I think we're going to hear a lot about him the future as long as he can build that confidence for himself.
"He was a young man who people continuously spoke about his ability and then he went on and won several tournaments.
"It's not as though he's not had the experience of winning, he's won in Spain recently and in South Africa, he's played in the Masters and played in these tournaments so he's had quite a bit of experience.
"I think he's going to go on from strength to strength because he really has a beautiful golf swing and he's a wonderful putter."
Chat before final round
Player acknowledged he would not have picked Oosthuizen as the potential winner before the start of the week in Scotland, but insists he had no doubt he could see through the job once he got his nose in front.
"At the beginning of the week, no (I wouldn't have guessed he would win), there are too many players, 156 players," Player continued.
"But when he was leading the last day and people said who do you think is going to win, I said 'I believe he'll win'.
"I don't take any credit for his victory whatsoever, but I had a wee chat with him and said I had the same experience in 1961, playing with Arnold Palmer and leading the Masters by four and there's 50,000 people there and only one pulling for me and that's my wife and my dog!
"Everybody else was screaming for Arnold and I said turned it into a positive, a lot of people get negative and feel sorry for themselves. I said, the more they scream for him the better I'm going to play.
"And I said to him you're going to be with a crowd that's obviously pulling for Paul Casey and their local players and that's natural but it doesn't mean that the people don't like you.
"You've just got to get in there, get that out of your mind and be positive, keep relaxed and go on and win because you're playing you're playing the best."
