This article is about the American professional golfer. For the golf tournament, see Arnold Palmer Invitational. For the drink, see Arnold Palmer (drink). For the British real tennis player, see Arnold Palmer (tennis).
Arnold Palmer
Palmer while in the U.S. Coast Guard, 1953
Personal information
Full name
Arnold Daniel Palmer
Nickname
The King
Born
(1929-09-10)September 10, 1929 Latrobe, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Died
September 25, 2016(2016-09-25) (aged 87) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Height
5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight
185 lb (84 kg; 13 st 3 lb)
Sporting nationality
United States
Spouse
Winifred Walzer
(m. 1954; died 1999)
Kathleen Gawthrop
(m. 2005)
Children
2
Career
College
Wake Forest College
Turned professional
1954
Former tour(s)
PGA Tour
Senior PGA Tour
Professional wins
95
Number of wins by tour
PGA Tour
62 (5th all-time)
European Tour
2
PGA Tour of Australasia
2
PGA Tour Champions
10
Other
21
Best results in major championships (wins: 7)
Masters Tournament
Won: 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964
PGA Championship
T2: 1964, 1968, 1970
U.S. Open
Won: 1960
The Open Championship
Won: 1961, 1962
Achievements and awards
World Golf Hall of Fame
1974 (member page)
PGA Tour money list winner
1958, 1960, 1962, 1963
PGA Player of the Year
1960, 1962
Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year
1960
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 (September 10, 1929 – September 25, 2016) was an American professional golfer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most charismatic players in the sport's history. Dating back to 1955, he won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and the circuit now known as PGA Tour Champions. Nicknamed "The King", Palmer was one of golf's most popular stars and seen as a trailblazer, the first superstar of the sport's television age, which began in the 1950s.
Palmer's social impact on golf was unrivaled among fellow professionals; his modest origins and plain-spoken popularity helped change the perception of golf from an elite, upper-class pastime of private clubs to a more populist sport accessible to middle and working classes via public courses.[1] Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player were "The Big Three" in golf during the 1960s; they are credited with popularizing and commercializing the sport around the world.
In a career spanning more than six decades, Palmer won 62 PGA Tour titles from 1955 to 1973. He is fifth on the Tour's all-time victory list, trailing only Sam Snead, Tiger Woods, Nicklaus, and Ben Hogan. He won seven major titles in a six-plus-year domination from the 1958 Masters to the 1964 Masters. He also won the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, and in 1974 was one of the 13 original inductees into the World Golf Hall of Fame.[2]
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Arnold Daniel Palmer (September 10, 1929 – September 25, 2016) was an American professional golfer who is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most...
The ArnoldPalmer Invitational is a professional golf tournament on the PGA Tour. It is played each March at the Bay Hill Club and Lodge, a private golf...
The ArnoldPalmer Cup is an annual team golf competition for college/university golfers. It is named for ArnoldPalmer. From 2018 it has been contested...
ArnoldPalmer Regional Airport (IATA: LBE, ICAO: KLBE, FAA LID: LBE) is in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States, two miles (3 km) southwest...
and April in 1983. The inaugural champion in 1969 was forty-year-old ArnoldPalmer, his first win in over a year. Course co-designer Nicklaus won in 1975...
weeks later, Scheffler won his second career PGA Tour title at the ArnoldPalmer Invitational in Orlando, Florida. He won by one stroke over Viktor Hovland...
Five golfers have won the Masters wire-to-wire; Craig Wood in 1941, ArnoldPalmer in 1960, Nicklaus in 1972, Raymond Floyd in 1976, and Jordan Spieth...
Act. Palmer also was named in the counter-suit, accused of violating the same licensing agreement in conjunction with his company ArnoldPalmer Enterprises...
a PGA Tour golfer. The ArnoldPalmer Invitational, formerly the Bay Hill Invitational, closely identified with ArnoldPalmer and played at a resort he...
Fred McLeod, Jock Hutchinson, Gene Sarazen, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, ArnoldPalmer, Jack Nicklaus, Gary Player, Lee Elder, and Tom Watson. Since 1960,...
behind ArnoldPalmer. Nicklaus turned professional at age 21 in 1961. He earned his first professional victory at the 1962 U.S. Open, defeating Palmer by...
Administration. "ArnoldPalmer". Boren, Cindy (September 26, 2016). "The story behind how ArnoldPalmer invented his famous drink, the ArnoldPalmer". Washington...
PGA West in La Quinta, (the TPC Stadium Golf Course in 1987 and the ArnoldPalmer Private Course thereafter) became a permanent member of the roster;...
Nicklaus holds the record for most wins with six which is two more than ArnoldPalmer and one more than Tiger Woods. Nicklaus shot 17-under par 271 in 1965...
(340 mL), as well as a 128 US fl oz (3,800 mL) (gallon) of AriZona. The "ArnoldPalmer blend" of iced tea and lemonade has been commercially available since...
first achieved in November 2018. In March 2021, DeChambeau won the ArnoldPalmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club & Lodge in Orlando, Florida. He shot a...
available: the Challenger, Champion and Charger nines. It was owned by ArnoldPalmer from 1974 until his death in 2016, and now by his daughter and son-in-law...
became more difficult to combine the roles of captain and player and ArnoldPalmer in 1963 was the last playing captain. The captains have always been...
in 2012, he directed the 30 for 30 documentary short for ESPN, "The ArnoldPalmer", which was nominated for a Sports Emmy for Outstanding New Approaches...
first of his three Opens. Only four Americans had entered, but in 1960 ArnoldPalmer travelled to Scotland after winning the Masters and U.S. Open, in an...
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