Posted on 09/25/2016 5:57:02 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
Arnold Palmer, a seven-time major winner who brought golf to the masses and became the most beloved figure in the game, died Sunday, a source close to the family confirmed to Golfweek. He was 87.
Reaction poured in from “Arnie’s Army” of admirers in the world of golf.
“We loved him with a mythic American joy,” said Palmer biographer James Dodson. “He represented everything that is great about golf. The friendship, the fellowship, the laughter, the impossibility of golf, the sudden rapture moment that brings you back, a moment that you never forget, that’s Arnold Palmer in spades. He’s the defining figure in golf.”
No one did more to popularize the sport than Palmer. His dashing presence singlehandedly took golf out of the country clubs and into the mainstream. Quite simply, he made golf cool.
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I am sorry to hear of his passing. Our paths did cross at the Palm Springs airport when I worked there. In those days he was flying an Aero Commander and he would fly in for the Bob Hope Desert Classic golf tournament.
That would have been in the early 1960’s.
I have been there a number of times. It’s on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia.
They don’t make them like him anymore.
Pray for the Palmer family
I copied his “Knocked Kneed: putting stance for many years.
believe it or not, it improved my putting a great deal.
He was one of the best. RIP Arnie.
Simpsons episode this evening had the guys at the nuclear power plant using super squirter squirt guns with lemonade and ice tea ...... going around making “Arnold Palmers” (his favorite drink) on all their co-workers ........
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Palmer_(drink)
RIP Mr Palmer .....
Eagled.
God bless you, Arnie
Enlisted into the Coast Guard for a 3 year hitch.
Didn’t start playing pro golf until he was 25.
I wonder how much more he could have won if he came out earlier.
R.I.P. Arnie.
Fabulous pictures, thanks
A life well lived.
I remember watching him on TV as a kid - black and white set. The ball would vanish in the sky during the long drives - white on white. He sank a ridiculously long putt once, I watched it crawl up and down all across the long green and finally drop in the cup, and I marveled. I asked my dad if he did that on purpose or if he was just lucky, and my dad laughed and said for that kind of money it better be on purpose!
Unfortunately that very day was overshadowed by O.J. Simpson's flight down the highway in that white Ford Bronco. As it also overshadowed the World Cup, the Rangers winning the Stanley Cup, the NBA finals, a number of Major League Baseball games, and too much else. It was like the very best and the very worst of the sports world collided on a single day.
Arnold Palmer's final round though... that was at once sad and an occasion to rejoice for a truly classy, truly great man.
Swashbuckling Arnold won The Master’s four times. He also lost every major in playoffs. Nobody cared about that. For whatever reason - his humble beginnings, his natural charisma - he transcended the game and was a truly unique icon. RIP and here’s to a life well-lived and a good man.
Who is that with him in the bottom picture?
Ike &
Jack Nicklaus
Thanks!
You’re welcome.
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