| Arnold Palmer |  | | Personal information | | Full name | Arnold Daniel Palmer | | Nickname | The King | | Born | September 10, 1929 (1929-09-10) (age 80)
Latrobe, Pennsylvania | | Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) | | Nationality |  United States | | Residence | Latrobe, Pennsylvania
Orlando, Florida | | Career | | College | Wake Forest University | | Turned professional | 1954 | | Current tour(s) | PGA Tour (joined 1955)
Champions Tour (joined 1980) | | Professional wins | 94 | | Number of wins by tour | | PGA Tour | 62 (5th all time) | | Champions Tour | 10 | Best results in Major Championships
(Wins: 7) | | The Masters | Won: 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964 | | U.S. Open | Won: 1960 | | Open Championship | Won: 1961, 1962 | | PGA Championship | T2: 1964, 1968, 1970 | | Achievements and awards | | World Golf Hall of Fame | 1974 (member page) | PGA Tour
leading money winner | 1958, 1960, 1962, 1963 | | PGA Player of the Year | 1960, 1962 | | Vardon Trophy | 1961, 1962, 1964, 1967 | | Bob Jones Award | 1971 | | Old Tom Morris Award | 1983 | PGA Tour Lifetime
Achievement Award | 1998 | | Payne Stewart Award | 2000 | Arnold Daniel Palmer (born September 10, 1929) is an American golfer who is generally regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of men's professional golf. He has won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour, dating back to 1955. Nicknamed "The King," he is one of golf's most popular stars and its most important trailblazer because he was the first star of the sport's television age, which began in the 1950s. He was part of golf's "Big Three" along with Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player who are widely credited with popularizing the sport around the world. Palmer won the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, and in 1974 was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. [edit] Career outline  Palmer, while enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1953 Palmer was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He learned golf from his father Deacon Palmer, who was head professional and greenkeeper at Latrobe Country Club, allowing young Arnold to accompany his father as he maintained the course.[1] At age seven, Palmer broke 70 at Bent Creek Country Club.[citation needed] As a youngster, Palmer was only allowed on the Latrobe course (it was just nine holes then) in early morning or late afternoon, when the members weren't playing. He attended Wake Forest University, on a golf scholarship. He left upon the death of close friend Bud Worsham, and enlisted in the Coast Guard, where he served for three years and had some time to continue to hone his golf skills. Palmer gathered himself, and returned to competitive golf. His win in the 1954 U.S. Amateur Championship made him decide to try the pro tour for a while, and he and new bride Winifred Walzer (whom he had met at a Pennsylvania tournament) traveled the circuit for 1955. Palmer won the 1955 Canadian Open in his rookie season, and raised his game systematically for the next several seasons. With the help of his unfailing[peacock term] personality and lucrative business ventures, Arnold Palmer has almost single-handedly[peacock term] brought golf out of the elite country clubs and into the consciousness of mainstream America.[citation needed] Palmer's charisma was a major factor in establishing golf as a compelling television event in the 1950s and 1960s, setting the stage for the popularity it enjoys today. His first major championship win at the 1958 Masters cemented his position as one of the leading stars in golf, and by 1960 he had signed up as pioneering sports agent Mark McCormack's first client. In later interviews, McCormack listed five attributes that made Palmer especially marketable: his good looks; his relatively modest background (his father was a greenkeeper before rising to be club professional and Latrobe was a humble club); the way he played golf, taking risks and wearing his emotions on his sleeve; his involvement in a string of exciting finishes in early televised tournaments; and his affability.[2] Palmer is also credited by many for securing the status of The Open Championship (British Open) among US players. After Ben Hogan won that championship in 1953, few American professionals had travelled to play in The Open, due to its travel requirements, relatively small prize purses, and the style of its links courses (radically different from most American courses). Palmer was convinced by his business partner Mark McCormack that success in the Open - to emulate the feats of Bobby Jones, Sam Snead and Hogan before him - would truly make him a global sporting star, not simply a leading American golfer. In particular, Palmer travelled to Scotland in 1960, having already won both the Masters and U.S. Open, to try to emulate Hogan's feat of 1953, of winning all three in a single year. He failed, losing out to Kel Nagle by a single shot, but his subsequent Open wins in the early 1960s convinced many American pros that a trip to Britain would be worth the effort, and certainly secured Palmer's popularity among British and European fans, not just American ones. Palmer won seven major championships: Palmer's most prolific years were 1960-1963, when he won 29 PGA Tour events in four seasons. In 1960, he won the Hickok Belt as the top professional athlete of the year and Sports Illustrated magazine's "Sportsman of the Year" award. He built up a wide fan base, often referred to as "Arnie's Army", and in 1967 he became the first man to reach one million dollars in career earnings on the PGA Tour. By the late 1960s Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player had both acquired clear ascendancy in their rivalry, but Palmer won a PGA Tour event every year up to 1970, and in 1971 he enjoyed a revival, winning four events. Palmer won the Vardon Trophy for lowest scoring average four times: 1961, 1962, 1964, and 1967. He played on six Ryder Cup teams: 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, 1971, and 1973. He was the last playing-captain in 1963 and captained the team again in 1975. Palmer was eligible for the Senior PGA Tour (now the Champions Tour) from its first season in 1980, and he was one of the marquee names who helped it to become successful. He won ten events on the tour, including five senior majors. Palmer won the first World Match Play Championship in England, an event which was originally organised by McCormack to showcase his stable of players. Their partnership was one of the most significant in the history of sports marketing. Long after he ceased to win tournaments, Palmer remained one of the highest earners in golf due to his appeal to sponsors and the public. In 2004, he competed in The Masters for the last time, marking his 50th consecutive appearance in that event. After missing the cut at the 2005 U.S. Senior Open by twenty-one shots he announced that he would not enter any more senior majors. Since 2007, Palmer has served as the honorary starter for the Masters.[3] He retired from tournament golf on October 13, 2006, when he withdrew from the Champions Tours' Administaff Small Business Classic after four holes due to dissatisfaction with his own play. He played the remaining holes but did not keep score.[4] Palmer's legacy was reaffirmed by an electrifying moment during the 2004 Bay Hill Invitational. Standing over 200 yards from the water-laden 18th green, Palmer, who is known for his aggressive play, lashed his second shot onto the green with a driver. The shot thrilled his loyal gallery and energized the excitable Palmer. He turned to his grandson and caddie, Sam Saunders, and gave him a prolonged shimmy and playful jeering in celebration of the moment. Palmer has had a diverse golf related business career including owning the Bay Hill Club and Lodge, which is the venue for the PGA Tour's Arnold Palmer Invitational (renamed from the Bay Hill Invitational in 2007), helping to found The Golf Channel,[5] and negotiating the deal to build the first golf course in the People's Republic of China. This led to the formation of Palmer Course Design in 1972, which was renamed Arnold Palmer Design Company when the company moved to Orlando Florida in 2006. Since 1971 he has owned Latrobe Country Club, where his father used to be the club professional. In 2000, Palmer was ranked the sixth greatest player of all time in Golf Digest magazine's rankings.[6] According to Golf Digest, Palmer made $1,861,857 in 734 PGA Tour career starts over 53 years; he earned an estimated $30 million off the course in 2008.[7] He now resides near his golf course, Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Country Club and Lodge, in Orlando, Florida. [edit] Miscellaneous - Palmer is a major contributor to health and wellness, founding both the Arnold Palmer Pavilion at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando, Florida. The Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children is a world-class medical facility, which was originally known as the "Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Women." In 2006 a new campus was built adjacent to the original building, the Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies, named after his wife Winnie, creating separate pediatric and obstetrics hospitals.
- Palmer is a 33° freemason.[1]
- Palmer is an aircraft pilot and bought the first Cessna Citation X. He set a speed record with that aircraft on a 5000m closed course.[8]
- Palmer was the first man in golf to win $1 million in career earnings.(see 1963 in the Timeline of Golf History 1945 - 1999)
- The 1960 Masters Tournament, originally broadcast in black and white and recorded on kinescope was re-broadcast on CBS, Sunday, April 8, 2007, one hour before the final round of the 2007 Masters Tournament. The documentary, Jim Nantz Remembers marked the first time a major sports event had been re-broadcast using colorization. It included additional commentary by Arnold Palmer. The broadcast was shown to Arnold Palmer at the Bel-Air Golf Club in February, 2007. It was the first time Arnold had ever seen the broadcast and with the latest and most sophisticated colorization technology of Legend Films, the colorization matched perfectly the color reference material for the entire round.[2] and [3]
- Palmer's birthday was used in Season 3 of MacGyver (Episode: Lost Love II). Peter Thornton liked golf and had set the passcode to the Mink Dragon exhibit to be Arnold Palmer's birthday, 9-10-29.
- Currently, Arnold Palmer is a member at Oakland Hills Country Club, the host of the 2008 PGA Championship.
- In the spring of 2008 Arnie & Jack was released. The book chronicles the careers and rivalry of Arnold Palmer and longtime friend Jack Nicklaus.[9]
- One of Palmer's favorite drinks is a combination of half iced tea and half lemonade, a drink which is often referred to as an "Arnold Palmer" in his honor. It is now available under the name "The Original Arnold Palmer Tee" (sic) [4]
- A street in the Brier Creek Country Club located in Raleigh/Morrisville, North Carolina, is named after him. The street boasts upscale homes, with some with tax values over 1 million dollars.
- Oak Valley, a development in Advance, NC has an Arnold Palmer golf course and one of the more exclusive housing areas is called Palmer's Ridge and the street is Arnold Palmer Dr. This is located not far from Wake Forest Univ.
- Palmer Hall, a freshman dormitory on the campus of Wake Forest University is named in honor of Arnold Palmer
- Arnold Palmer also owns two Cadillac dealerships in the Charlotte, North Carolina area.
- Provided his name to the collegiate golf event known as the Palmer Cup.
[edit] Amateur wins (2) - 1953 Evergreen Pitch and Putt Invitational
- 1954 U.S. Amateur
[edit] Professional wins (94) [edit] PGA Tour wins (62) | No. | Date | Tournament | Winning Score | Margin of
Victory | Runner(s)-up | | 1 | Aug 20, 1955 | Canadian Open | -23 (64-67-64-70=265) | 4 strokes | Jack Burke, Jr. | | 2 | Jul 1, 1956 | Insurance City Open | -10 (66-69-68-71=274) | Playoff | Ted Kroll | | 3 | Jul 29, 1956 | Eastern Open | -11 (70-66-69-72=277) | 2 strokes | Dow Finsterwald | | 4 | Feb 25, 1957 | Houston Open | -9 (67-72-71-69=279) | 1 stroke | Doug Ford | | 5 | Mar 31, 1957 | Azalea Open Invitational | -6 (70-67-70-75=282) | 1 stroke | Dow Finsterwald | | 6 | Jun 9, 1957 | Rubber City Open Invitational | -12 (71-66-67-68=272) | Playoff | Doug Ford | | 7 | Oct 30, 1957 | San Diego Open Invitational | -17 (65-68-68-70=271) | 1 stroke |  Al Balding | | 8 | Oct 20, 1958 | St. Petersburg Open Invitational | -12 (70-69-72-65=276) | 1 stroke | Al Balding, Dow Finsterwald | | 9 | Apr 6, 1958 | The Masters | -4 (70-73-68-73=284) | 1 strokes | Doug Ford, Fred Hawkins | | 10 | Jun 29, 1958 | Pepsi Championship | -11 (66-69-67-71=273) | 5 strokes | Jay Hebert | | 11 | Jan 25, 1959 | Thunderbird Invitational | -18 (67-70-67-62=266) | Playoff | Jimmy Demaret, Ken Venturi | | 12 | May 11, 1959 | Oklahoma City Open Invitational | -15 (73-64-67-69=273) | 2 strokes | Bob Goalby | | 13 | Nov 29, 1959 | West Palm Beach Open Invitational | -7 (72-67-66-76=281) | Playoff | Gay Brewer, Pete Cooper | | 14 | Feb 7, 1960 | Palm Springs Desert Golf Classic | -22 (67-73-67-66-65=338) | 3 strokes | Fred Hawkins | | 15 | Feb 28, 1960 | Texas Open Invitational | -12 (69-65-67-75=276) | 2 strokes | Doug Ford, Frank Stranahan | | 16 | Mar 6, 1960 | Baton Rouge Open Invitational | -9 (71-71-69-68=279) | 7 strokes | Jay Hebert, Ron Reif,
Doug Sanders | | 17 | Mar 13, 1960 | Pensacola Open Invitational | -15 (68-65-73-67=273) | 1 strokes | Doug Sanders | | 18 | Apr 10, 1960 | The Masters | -6 (67-73-72-70=282) | 1 stroke | Ken Venturi | | 19 | Jun 18, 1960 | U.S. Open | -4 (72-71-72-65=280) | 2 strokes | Jack Nicklaus | | 20 | Aug 7, 1960 | Insurance City Open Invitational | -14 (70-68-66-66=270) | Playoff | Bill Collins, Jack Fleck | | 21 | Nov 27, 1960 | Mobile Sertoma Open Invitational | -14 (68-67-74-65=274) | 2 strokes | Johnny Pott | | 22 | Jan 15, 1961 | San Diego Open Invitational | -17 (69-68-69-65=271) | Playoff | Al Balding | | 23 | Feb 12, 1961 | Phoenix Open Invitational | -14 (69-65-66-70=270) | Playoff | Doug Sanders | | 24 | Feb 26, 1961 | Baton Rouge Open Invitational | -22 (65-67-68-66=266) | 7 strokes | Wes Ellis | | 25 | Apr 30, 1961 | Texas Open Invitational | -10 (67-63-72-68=270) | 1 stroke | Al Balding | | 26 | Jun 25, 1961 | Western Open | -13 (65-70-67-69=271) | 2 strokes | Sam Snead | | 27 | Jul 14, 1961 | The Open Championship | -4 (70-73-69-72=284) | 1 stroke |  Dai Rees | | 28 | Feb 4, 1962 | Palm Springs Golf Classic | -18 (69-67-66-71-69=342) | 3 strokes | Jay Hebert, Gene Littler | | 29 | Feb 11, 1962 | Phoenix Open Invitational | -15 (64-68-71-66=269) | 12 strokes | Billy Casper, Don Fairfield,
Bob McCallister | | 30 | Apr 9, 1962 | The Masters | -8 (70-66-69-75-68=280) | Playoff | Dow Finsterwald,  Gary Player | | 31 | Apr 29, 1962 | Texas Open Invitational | -1 (72-70-72-69=273) | 1 stroke | Joe Campbell, Gene Littler,
Mason Rudolph, Doug Sanders | | 32 | May 6, 1962 | Tournament of Champions | -12 (69-70-69-68=276) | 1 stroke | Billy Casper | | 33 | May 13, 1962 | Colonial National Invitation | +1 (67-72-66-76=281) | Playoff | Johnny Pott | | 34 | Jul 13, 1962 | The Open Championship | -12 (71-69-67-69=276) | 6 strokes |  Kel Nagle | | 35 | Aug 12, 1962 | American Golf Classic | -4 (67-69-70-70=276) | 5 strokes | Mason Rudolph | | 36 | Jan 7, 1963 | Los Angeles Open | -10 (69-69-70-66=274) | 3 strokes | Al Balding, Gary Player | | 37 | Feb 12, 1963 | Phoenix Open Invitational | -11 (68-67-68-70=273) | 1 stroke | Gary Player | | 38 | Mar 10, 1963 | Pensacola Open Invitational | -15 (69-68-69-67=273) | 2 strokes |  Harold Kneece, Gary Player | | 39 | Jun 16, 1963 | Thunderbird Classic Invitational | -11 (67-70-68-72=277) | Playoff | Paul Harney | | 40 | Jul 1, 1963 | Cleveland Open Invitational | -9 (68-73-65-73=279) | Playoff | Tommy Aaron, Tony Lema | | 41 | Jul 29, 1963 | Western Open | -11 (71-68-66-68=273) | Playoff | Julius Boros, Jack Nicklaus | | 42 | Oct 6, 1963 | Whitemarsh Open Invitational | -7 (70-71-66-74=281) | 1 stroke | Lionel Hebert | | 43 | Apr 12, 1964 | The Masters | -12 (69-68-69-70=276) | 6 strokes | Dave Marr, Jack Nicklaus | | 44 | May 18, 1964 | Oklahoma City Open Invitational | -11 (72-69-69-67=277) | 2 strokes | Lionel Hebert | | 45 | Apr 25, 1965 | Tournament of Champions | -11 (66-69-71-71=277) | 3 strokes |  Chi Chi Rodriguez | | 46 | Jan 31, 1966 | Los Angeles Open | -11 (72-66-62-73=273) | 3 strokes | Miller Barber, Paul Harney | | 47 | Apr 18, 1966 | Tournament of Champions | -5 (74-70-70-69=283) | Playoff | Gay Brewer | | 48 | Nov 20, 1966 | Houston Champions International | -9 (70-68-68-69=275) | 1 stroke | Gardner Dickinson | | 49 | Jan 29, 1967 | Los Angeles Open | -2 (70-64-67-68=269) | 5 strokes | Gay Brewer | | 50 | Feb 19, 1967 | Tucson Open Invitational | -15 (66-67-67-73=273) | 1 stroke | Chuck Courtney | | 51 | Aug 13, 1967 | American Golf Classic | -4 (70-67-72-67=276) | 3 stroke | Doug Sanders | | 52 | Sep 24, 1967 | Thunderbird Classic | -5 (71-71-72-69=283) | 1 stroke | Charles Coody, Jack Nicklaus,
Art Wall, Jr. | | 53 | Feb 14, 1968 | Bob Hope Desert Classic | -12 (72-70-67-71-68=348) | Playoff | Deane Beman | | 54 | Sep 15, 1968 | Kemper Open | -12 (69-70-70-67=276) | 4 strokes | Bruce Crampton, Art Wall, Jr. | | 55 | Nov 30, 1969 | Heritage Golf Classic | -1 (68-71-70-74=283) | 3 strokes | Dick Crawford, Bert Yancey | | 56 | Dec 7, 1969 | Danny Thomas-Diplomat Classic | -18 (68-67-70-65-270) | 2 strokes | Gay Brewer | | 57 | Jul 26, 1970 | National Four-Ball Championship
PGA Players (with Jack Nicklaus) | -25 (61-67-64-67=259) | 3 strokes | Bruce Crampton & Orville Moody,
Gardner Dickinson & Sam Snead,
George Archer & Bobby Nichols | | 58 | Feb 14, 1971 | Bob Hope Desert Classic | -18 (67-71-66-68-70=342) | Playoff | Raymond Floyd | | 59 | Mar 14, 1971 | Florida Citrus Invitational | -18 (66-68-68-68=270) | 1 stroke | Julius Boros | | 60 | Jul 25, 1971 | Westchester Classic | -18 (64-70-68-68=270) | 5 strokes | Gibby Gilbert, Hale Irwin | | 61 | Aug 1, 1971 | National Team Championship
(with Jack Nicklaus) | -27 (62-64-65-66=257) | 6 strokes | Julius Boros & Bill Collins,
 Bob Charles & Bruce Devlin | | 62 | Feb 11, 1973 | Bob Hope Desert Classic | -17 (71-66-69-68-69=343) | 2 strokes | Jack Nicklaus, Johnny Miller | [edit] Other wins (17) [edit] Senior PGA Tour wins (10) Senior majors are shown in bold. [edit] Other senior wins (5) [edit] Major Championships [edit] Wins (7) 1 Defeated Gary Player & Dow Finsterwald in 18-hole playoff - Palmer (68), Player (71), Finsterwald (77) [edit] Results timeline DNP = Did not play
WD = Withdrew
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Green background for wins. Yellow background for top-10. [edit] Summary of major championship performances - Starts - 142
- Wins - 7
- 2nd place finishes - 10
- Top 3 finishes - 19
- Top 5 finishes - 26
- Top 10 finishes - 38
- Longest streak of top-10s in majors - 6
[edit] See also [edit] References - ^ The Gigantic Book of Golf Quotations, Foreword by Arnold Palmer. 2007.
- ^ The Wicked Game: Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and the Story of Modern Golf, page 55. Howard Sounes, 2004. ISBN 0-06-051386-1
- ^ http://www.augusta.com/stories/2009/04/10/mas_518006.shtml
- ^ 'Arnie's Army' Gets Last Look at Legend New York Times, October 14, 2006
- ^ Arnold Palmer: Memories, Stories, and Memorabilia from a Life on and Off the Course, By Arnold Palmer. page 73.
- ^ Yocom, Guy (July 2000). "50 Greatest Golfers of All Time: And What They Taught Us". Golf Digest. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0HFI/is_7_51/ai_63015233. Retrieved 2007-12-05.
- ^ Golf Digest, "Palmer in his Prime," September 2009
- ^ A Golfers Life, By Arnold Palmer. 1999. pg. 332.
- ^ O'Connor, Ian. Arnie & Jack: Palmer, Nicklaus and Golf's Greatest Rivalry. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 2008.
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