Arnold Palmer

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Arnold Palmer
Arnold Palmer
Personnel
Nation: United StatesUnited States United States
Nickname: The King
Career data
Professional since: 1954
Tournament wins: 94
Major wins : 7th
Awards: AP Athlete of the Decade for the 1960s
Bob Jones Award (1971)
World Golf Hall of Fame (1974)
Old Tom Morris Award (1983)

Arnold Daniel Palmer (born September 10, 1929 in Latrobe , Pennsylvania , † September 25, 2016 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania) was an American professional golfer . Along with Bobby Jones , Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods, he was one of the most famous players in golf . Palmer was undoubtedly the most popular golfer, the first star of the TV era of the sport that began in the 1950s. In 1960 he founded modern sports marketing, as the first athlete to achieve high income from advertising alongside high prize money. Palmer was also known as a golf course designer .

career

Arnold Palmer's father, Deacon Palmer (1905-1976), was Grounds Superintendent at Latrobe Country Club near Pittsburgh from 1926 until his death in 1976. Deacon Palmer was a golf pro from 1931. Arnold Palmer states that he learned to play more from his mother - if at all from his family - and that his father was too busy with the golf course.

In the course of his impressive career, Arnold Palmer won seven majors (4  Masters , 2  Open Championships and once the US Open ). His best years on the PGA Tour were between 1960 and 1963, when he recorded 29 tournament victories over four seasons. At that time, a huge fan base, known as Arnie's Army , was recruited and continued to accompany him from tournament to tournament decades later. In 1967 he became the first professional golfer to break the $ 1 million mark in prize money. One of the reasons for its popularity and high revenue was its professional management by attorney Mark McCormack , who convinced companies to sponsor golf tournaments. Towards the end of the 1960s, Palmer was consistently outstripped by his much younger permanent rival Jack Nicklaus , but he still won at least one tournament year after year and even four in 1972.

When Palmer was then eligible to play for the PGA Senior Tour, today's Champions Tour , his appearance made a significant contribution to the success of this tournament series. He won ten events there, five of which were senior majors .

In 2004 Arnold Palmer made his last appearance at the Masters in Augusta , Georgia , after 50 starts in a row. When he missed the cut by 21 strokes at the US Senior Open in 2005 , he announced his retirement from senior majors. In October 2006 he finally retired from professional tournaments.

Most important awards

George W. Bush awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Arnold Palmer.

PGA Tour victories

Major championships are in bold .

Other tournament victories

Results in major tournaments

competition 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967
The Masters DNP DNP T10 21st T7 1 3 1 T2 1 T9 1 T2 T4 4th
US Open CUT CUT T21 7th CUT T23 T5 1 T14 2 T2 T5 CUT 2 2
The Open Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP 2 1 1 T26 DNP 16 T8 DNP
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP T40 T14 T7 T5 T17 T40 T2 T33 T6 T14
competition 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982
The Masters CUT 27 T36 T18 T33 T24 T11 T13 CUT T24 T37 CUT T24 CUT 47
US Open 59 T6 T54 T24 3 T4 T5 T9 T50 T19 CUT T59 63 CUT CUT
The Open Championship T10 DNP 12 DNP T7 T14 DNP T16 T55 7th T34 DNP CUT T23 T27
PGA Championship T2 WD T2 T18 T16 CUT T28 T33 T15 T19 CUT CUT T72 76 CUT
competition 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997
The Masters T36 CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT
US Open T60 DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT DNP DNP DNP
The Open Championship T56 CUT DNP DNP CUT DNP CUT CUT DNP DNP DNP DNP CUT DNP DNP
PGA Championship T67 CUT T65 CUT T65 CUT T63 CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT DNP DNP DNP
competition 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004
The Masters CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT CUT
US Open DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
The Open Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP
PGA Championship DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP DNP

Senior PGA Tour victories

Senior majors are in bold .

Other senior tournament victories

  • 1984 Doug Sanders Celebrity Pro-Am
  • 1986 Union Mutual Classic
  • 1990 Senior Skins Game
  • 1992 Senior Skins Game
  • 1993 Senior Skins Game

Trivia

Arnold Palmer Airport in Latrobe

Palmer's grandson, Sam Saunders , is also a professional golfer and won the Bay Hill Club Championship when he was 15. Saunders mentioned in an interview that Palmer's family nickname is Dumpy .

Palmer was an avid pilot for over 50 years in his lifetime . His last flight he completed in late January 2011 in his Cessna Citation X . In his honor, the regional airport of his hometown in Latrobe (Pennsylvania) was named after him.

Arnold Palmer was an active member of the Freemasons Association ( Loyalhanna Lodge No. 275 , Latrobe). He also got involved with the Shriners for free medical care for children.

Palmer was married to Winnie Palmer for 45 years. She died on November 20, 1999, of ovarian cancer . In 2005, he married his longtime girlfriend Katherine Gawthrop in a small private ceremony.

In the Links LS golf game series, he was seen on several boxes and was also shown animated in the game. He appeared together with Tiger Woods on the cover of the computer game Tiger Woods PGA Tour 14 .

Palmer lived near his golf course, Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Country Club and Lodge , in Orlando, Florida .

In the USA , a popular mixed drink made from lemonade and iced tea is called Arnold Palmer .

Arnold Palmer is named in the original English version of the film " Goldfinger " (1964) when Goldfinger tries to cheat James Bond in a golf game.

literature

  • Michael D'Antonio : Tour '72. Nicklaus, Palmer, Player, Trevino. The Story of One Great Season . Hyperion, New York 2002.

Web links

Commons : Arnold Palmer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

(All english)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pat Livingston: Deacon Palmer: Latrobe CC was his Mona Lisa . In: "The Pittsburgh Press" of February 10, 1976.
  2. ^ Latrobe Country Club: History. Retrieved August 1, 2018 .
  3. ^ The Most Successful Entrepreneurs, LZ. From the English by Wolfgang Drescher, Campus, New York / Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-593-37820-5 , p. 31.
  4. ^ Arnold Palmer's Grandson Makes Cut for US Open . In: The New York Times , June 14, 2011. Retrieved June 1, 2012. 
  5. ^ Arnold Palmer in cockpit for last time . In: ESPN . February 1, 2011. Retrieved June 1, 2012.
  6. ^ Arnold Palmer Regional Airport - About the Airport (LBE) . Retrieved October 22, 2012.
  7. ^ Arnold Palmer Freemason ( Memento of July 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), on the homepage of the US News newspaper (accessed on June 9, 2013).
  8. ↑ Palmer Shriner , on the homepage of the Aloha Shriners (Honolulu) (accessed June 9, 2013).
  9. ↑ Arnold Palmer's Wife Dies . In: CBS News . Retrieved March 26, 2013. 
  10. ^ Arnold Palmer marries again . Golf Today. Retrieved March 26, 2013.
  11. ^ Danny Morgenstern: "007 XXS - 50 years of James Bond - Goldfinger" . In: DAMOKLES (ed.): 007-XXS-Serie . 1st edition. tape 3 . DAMOKLES, Braunschweig 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-045522-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Palmer, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Palmer, Arnold Daniel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American golfer
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Latrobe , Pennsylvania , United States
DATE OF DEATH September 25, 2016
Place of death Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , United States