Arnold Palmer

thumb|right|180px|Palmer in September 2009 Arnold Palmer Arnold Daniel Palmer (September 10, 1929 – September 25, 2016) was an American professional golfer who won 62 PGA titles from 1955 to 1973. In 1974 he was one of the inaugural inductees into the World Golf Hall of Fame. Quotes Maybe you'll fail most of the time, but until you've dared to try and have brought off an impossible shot from the Golf course#Fairway and rough rough or from the Golf course#Hazards water, or have salvaged a hole by laying a monster of a Iron (golf)#Numbered irons 2-iron shot stiff against the pin, you will have missed golf's greatest playing thrill. My Game and Yours 1965 https://books.google.com/books?id=0xQ0L6kjPEEC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=dared 83 I've always believed the The Open Championship British Open is one of the greatest championships in the world. As a kid I read about Bobby Jones (golfer) Bob Jones and Walter Hagen and other Americans who had won the British Open (or Open Championship, as they call it in Britain), and I remember the hero's welcome Ben Hogan received after returning home with the Claret Jug in 1953. Arnold Palmer: Memories, Stories, and Memorabilia from a Life on and Off the Course Harry N. Abrams 2004 1584793309 https://books.google.com/books?id=dGpYAAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=claret 52 I've made 20 aces in my lifetime, which doesn't sound like very many when you consider I've played golf since I was four years old, but the odds of making a hole-in-one are around 2,500-to-1 for a professional (and 25,000-to-1 for an amateur). A Life Well Played: My Stories St. Martin's Publishing Group 2016 1250085950 https://books.google.com/books?id=8oFzCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA19 19 Quotes about Arnold Palmer ... As Tiger Woods Woods would do more than 30 years later, Palmer, a son of a golf pro at his hometown Latrobe Country Club, almost single-handedly stimulated TV coverage of golf, widening the game's popularity among a Suburb#Postwar suburban expansion postwar generation of World War II veterans enjoying economic boom times and a sprawling green suburbia. Dave Anderson (sportswriter) Dave Anderson, Arnold Palmer Dies at 87; Face of Golf September 26, 2016 The New York Times https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA464630349&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=03624331&p=AONE&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7Eeca9e329&aty=open-web-entry External links Category:1929 births Category:2016 deaths Category:Sportspeople from Pennsylvania Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Autobiographers from the United States Category:People from Pittsburgh