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sinus condition of, 95–96
smoking by, 5, 9, 76, 94, 95–97, 107
sports memorabilia and trophies of, xiv–xv
as supportive and welcoming to younger golfers, 34–35, 142–43, 156, 161, 171–72, 175–78, 205, 211, 237, 240, 241–42, 243, 245
television appearances by, 18, 19, 113–14, 127–28
temperamental outbursts of, xiv, 12, 31, 62–63, 175
37th birthday celebration of, 100, 106
in Tradition tournaments, 41, 131
in 2004 Masters Tournament, 196, 201–2
in 2015 St. Andrews four-hole tournament, 215–17
unusual golf shots of, 184–85
at Wake Forest College, 39–41, 42, 43, 85, 222–23
westerns enjoyed by, 44, 193, 249
Winnie’s relationship with, see Palmer, Winifred Walzer “Winnie”
womanizing of, 47, 54, 187–88, 189
Palmer, Doris Morrison, 26, 27, 31, 42, 47, 49, 54, 189, 252
AP’s relationship with, 24–25, 197–98
death of, 165–66
Palmer, Jerry, 26, 54
Palmer, Kathleen “Kit,” 193–94
Palmer, Lois Jean “Cheech,” 26, 33
Palmer, Milfred “Deacon,” 10, 26–27, 32, 38, 41, 42, 44, 47, 50–51, 54, 88, 95, 96–97, 164–65, 167, 169, 170, 197, 252
AP as seeking approval from, 25, 28, 33, 34, 49, 165
as AP’s golf instructor and mentor, 2, 10, 24, 28, 29, 30, 55, 61, 119, 151, 195, 196
childhood and adolescence of, 23–24
death of, 165
deformed foot and limp of, 23, 49
drinking by, 23, 31
golf course built by, 23, 24, 30
golf swing of, 2, 23–24, 104
greenskeeper/pro job of, 24, 26, 27, 30, 40
nickname of, 33–34
Palmer, Peggy, 190–91, 193, 202
Palmer, Winifred Walzer “Winnie,” 3, 15, 24, 59–60, 63, 64, 96, 100, 106, 125, 126, 131, 154, 163–64, 165, 176, 187, 188–91, 194, 202, 207–8, 253
AP’s affairs and, 188, 189
AP’s courtship of, 52–53, 54
AP’s domestic life with, 54–55, 58, 189, 190, 193
Barbara Nicklaus’s friendship with, 191, 212
death of, 193
elopement of, 3, 54
finances managed by, 58, 86, 105–6
pregnancies of, 58
as supportive of AP’s golf career, 58, 188, 190, 191, 246
Parilli, Babe, 21, 22
Patterson, Floyd, 18
Patton, George S., 100
Pearl Harbor, Japanese attack on, 33
Pebble Beach Golf Links, 48, 91, 128, 249
Pelé, 17, 89
Pembroke College, 53, 190
Pennsylvania, xii, 22, 42, 176, 219
Pensacola Open, 18
Perteet, Cemetery, 103
PGA, 49, 57, 118, 167
Caucasian clause of, 108
PGA Championship, 4, 10, 63, 77, 137, 144, 168, 172, 210, 230, 252
AP as never winning at, xv, 167, 168, 230, 249
of 1958, 82
of 1960, 17
of 1964, 167–68
of 1968, 167, 168
of 1969, 96
of 1970, 167, 168, 249
of 1971, 64
of 1992, 34
PGA Tour, 16, 44, 49, 57, 62, 74, 92, 108, 125, 140, 156, 158, 163, 177, 198, 210, 245
see also specific tournaments
PGA Tour (golfers’ association), 132
Philadelphia Country Club, 78
Philippine Open, 228
Phoenix Open, 118, 210–11
Picard, Henry, 88
Pine Valley club, 53–54, 105, 191
Piper Cub, 33
Pittsburgh, Pa., 21, 22, 37, 164, 178, 181, 182, 192, 208
Player, Gary, xi, xii, xiii, 28–29, 34, 44, 62, 65, 66–70, 73, 105, 109, 118, 119, 120, 121, 123, 124, 133, 143, 145, 148, 151, 165, 182, 183–84, 187, 190, 194, 211, 216, 217, 218–19, 220, 229, 246
apartheid controversy and, 69, 70
background of, 66, 67–68
in Challenge Golf series, 127–28
on exhibition tour with AP and Nicklaus, 125–27
McCormack as business manager of, 89, 125
ranch of, xiii, xiv, 127
Player, Harry, 67, 68
Player, Muriel, 66, 67
Player, Vivienne, xiv, 246
polio, 23, 50–51
Portmarnock Golf Club, 10
Post, Wiley, 32
Pott, Johnny, 91
Preston, Jimmy, 102
Preston Trail Golf Club, 75
Price, Nick, 217, 243–44
Price, Sue, 243
Professional Golfers’ Association of America, 108, 132
Quayle, Dan, 105
Quiet Man, The (film), 22
racism, 107–11
Ragan, Dave, 222
Rancho Park course, 118, 154
Ransom, Henry, 143
Ray, Ted, 136, 138, 139, 217
Rees, Dai, 12, 13, 14
Rice, Grantland, 107
Ritchie, Sharon, 46
Riviera Country Club, 61, 82, 151, 153
Roberts, Clifford, 68, 72, 74, 80–81, 107, 108, 111–12
Roberts, Jeff, 205–6
Robertson, Allan, 16
Robertson, Oscar, 18
Rockwell, Norman, 23, 225
Rodgers, Phil, 118, 127
Rodriguez, Juan “Chi Chi,” 142
Rogers, Bill, 215–16
Rogers, Fred, 31–32, 33, 227
Rogers, Roy, 44
Rooney, Art, 225
Rosburg, Bob, xvi, 4, 17, 58, 137, 187–88
Rose, Pete, 101
Ross, Donald, 83
Rostenkowski, Dan, 130–31
Rote, Kyle, 17, 46
Rowland, Betty, 222
Royal and Ancient Golf Club, 215, 216
Championship Committee of, 12
Royal Birkdale Golf Club, 154
1961 Open Championship at, 12–14, 161, 169, 226
Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Club, 247
Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, 112
Royal Portrush Golf Club, 188–89
Royal St. George’s Golf Club, 162
Royal Troon Golf Club, 230
1962 Open Championship at, 12, 14–16, 219, 226
Rudolph, Wilma, 18, 224
Runyon, Damon, 103
Russell, Bill, 17
Ruth, Babe, 17, 107, 192
Ryder Cup, 59, 62, 69, 93, 110, 143, 148, 172, 212, 229, 247, 252
St. Andrews Links, 10–12, 16, 137
course layout and playing conditions at, 10–11, 12
four-hole tournaments at, 215–17, 219, 220
1960 Open Championship at, 10, 11–12, 18
1964 Open Championship at, 16
St. Andrews’s Old Course Hotel, 161
St. Louis Country Club, 37–38
Sandburg, Carl, 86
Sanders, Doug, 11, 136–38, 140, 251
San Francisco, Calif., 74, 95, 148, 154, 228
Sarazen, Gene, 59, 72, 75, 217
Sargent, George, 83
Saunders, Amy Palmer, 190, 191, 193, 195, 202
Saunders, Emily, 195
Saunders, Howard Baker, 82
Saunders, Roy, 197
Saunders, Sam, 195–99, 252–53
Scheer, Gene, 40
Schenkel, Chris, 95
Schlee, John, 156, 158–60
Schmeling, Max, 178
Schneider, Wally, 205–6
Scioto Country Club, 51
Scotland, 10, 15, 77, 81, 215
Screen Door Open, 59
Seminole Golf Club, 46
Senior British Open, of 1995, 188–89
Senior PGA Championship, 169–70
Senior PGA Tour, 133, 168–69, 170, 183–85
see also specific senior tournaments
Senior Tournament Players Championship, 170
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Serling, Bob, 227
Shady Oaks Country Club, xiii, 80, 81
Shark Shootouts, 173
Sheehan, Tommy, 52
Sheen, Fulton J., 62
Shepard, Alan, 184
Sherwood Golf Club, 173
Sifford, Charlie, 108–11, 169
Silverado Golf Club, 50
Simpson, Wallis, 104
Simpson, Webb, 171
Sinatra, Frank, 73, 138, 187
Smith, Alexis, 53
Smith, Red, 95
smoking, by golfers, 5, 9, 76, 94–97, 107
Snead, Sam, xii, xiii, 7, 11, 17, 58, 59, 60, 74, 75, 76, 77–78, 79, 114, 118, 120, 145, 168, 215, 217, 233, 240
in 1947 U.S. Open, 37–38
in 1972 Masters Tournament, xi
Souchak, Mike, 1, 3, 6, 39, 58, 169
South Africa, xiii–xiv, 34, 66, 69–70, 91, 127
apartheid in, 69, 70
Southern Hills Golf Club, 44, 60, 64, 249
Spalding company, 44
Spanish Open, 163–64
Spieth, Jordan, 242
Sports Illustrated, 17–18, 46, 89, 90, 94, 182, 190, 225, 249
Stadler, Craig “Walrus,” 136, 173, 252
Stardust Country Club, 178
Steele, Bob, 44
Stewart, Ed, 76
Stewart, Payne, 48
Stockton, Dave, 119, 168, 249–50
Stone, Bob, 170
Stonehill College, 203, 204, 205
Strafaci, Frank, 46
Stranahan, Frank, 46, 88
Strange, Allan, 176
Strange, Curtis, 171, 175–79, 187–88, 193, 252
Strange, Sarah, 176, 193
Strange, Tom, 176
Stumbaugh, Jim, 32
Suntree Classic, 169
Sweda, George, 160
Sweeny, Robert, 46–49
Sylvania Country Club, 50
Tam O’Shanter Golf Club, 38, 65
Tarkenton, Fran, 51
Taylor, Rita, 68
Terrible Towel, 182
Texas Open, 18, 241
Texas Open Junior Tournament, 241
Thatcher, Margaret, 89
Thirsk, Stan, 240
Thomson, Peter, 12, 170, 216, 217
Thornton, Sean, 22
Thunderbird Classic, 139
Tiddy, Dick, 39
Tilden, Bill, 107
Titleist, 90
Tonight Show, The, 113–14
Toski, Bob, 86
Tournament of Champions, 148
Tracy, Spencer, 44
Tradition (senior tournament), 41, 131
Transamerica Senior Tournament, 50
Trevino, Lee, xii, 44, 105, 145, 159, 168, 215, 217, 252
marriages of, 191–92
Troon Golf Club, see Royal Troon Golf Club
Truman, Harry, 42
Turnberry Isle, 169
UBS Hong Kong Open, 93
Unitas, Johnny, 17, 21, 178, 224, 225
United States Golf Association (USGA), 4, 49, 122, 124, 138
Upton, Kate, 188
U.S. Amateur, xv, 10, 49–50, 51, 86, 125, 170
of 1954, 46–49, 58, 88
U.S. Junior Amateur Golf Championship, 50, 237
U.S. Open, xii, xv, 10, 17, 44, 51, 53, 62, 63, 74, 77, 125, 132, 137, 138, 141, 148, 151, 153, 168, 169, 170, 172–73, 176, 177, 178, 179, 211, 221, 230
of 1937, 78
of 1947, 37–38
of 1948, 143, 151, 153
of 1950, 77, 104
of 1951, 77
of 1952, 77
of 1953, 77, 78
of 1955, 59, 149
of 1958, 60, 64, 86
of 1960, xvi, 1, 3–9, 10, 18, 64, 141, 169, 209, 224
of 1962, 122–25, 156, 211
of 1963, 135–37, 138–40, 169
of 1964, 74
of 1965, 220
of 1966, 145, 147–48, 149–50, 151–54, 157, 190
of 1967, 128, 129, 145
of 1969, 145
of 1970, 93
of 1972, 128, 145
of 1973, 145, 156–58, 159–60
of 1975, 129–30, 131, 145
of 1983, 160
of 1994, 160–61, 238
U.S. Senior Open, 169, 170
U.S. Women’s Open, xv
Van Brocklin, Norm, 17
van de Velde, Jean, 216
Vardon, Harry, 24, 138, 139, 191, 217
Veghte, John, 46
Venturi, Ken, xii, 1–2, 4, 39, 70–75, 136
Verdi, Bob, 230
Vickers, Brian, 223
Vietnam War, 104, 205, 206
Von Nida, Norman, 143
Vorster, John, 70
Wadkins, Lanny, 171, 175, 178, 240
Wagner, Honus, 22
Wake Forest College, xii, 39–41, 42, 43, 85, 177, 178, 222–23
golf scholarships at, 171
Walker, Doak, 82, 192
Walker Cup, 45
Wall, Art, Jr., 39, 97, 110–11, 169
Walzer, Shube, 52, 53, 54, 58
Ward, Harvie, 39, 58
Waring, Fred, 52
Watson, Bubba, 248–49, 252
Watson, Caleb, 248–49
Watson, Tom, xii, 168, 188, 216, 217, 239–41, 252
Weaver, Jim, 39–40, 43
Web.com tour, 198
Weiland, Doug, 85
Weiskopf, Tom, 159, 216
Westchester Country Club, 139
Western Open, xii, 206
West Penn Junior Championship, xvi
White Fang (putter), 129
Whiting, Richard, 46
Wildwood Golf & Country Club, 42
Will, George, 229
Williams, Esther, 38, 42, 47
Williams, Ted, 80, 224
Wilson Sporting Goods Company, 57, 67, 87–88
Wind, Herbert Warren, xvi, 8–9, 45–46, 48, 64, 71, 72, 73, 97–98, 103, 107, 140, 145, 227
Winged Foot Golf Club, 184
Winnie Palmer Hospital, 238
Wolfe, Joe, 87
Wood, Craig, 53
Woods, Tiger, xii, 49–50, 51, 52, 61, 82, 103, 107–8, 131–32, 142, 192, 201–2, 216, 217, 218, 231, 233, 237–38, 243, 244, 245, 252
World Golf Hall of Fame, xv, 99–100, 143
World War II, 46, 101, 143
Worsham, Bud, xii, 38–42, 43, 85, 171, 177, 222–23
Worsham, Lew, 37–38
Wright, Mike, 80
Yates, Bill, 30
Young Philadelphians, The (film), 53
Zaharias, Babe Didrikson, xv, 225
PHOTOS SECTION
Arnie in grade school. He attended a two-room schoolhouse in Youngstown, Pennsylvania, where he did most of his adolescent carousing. A two-fisted boy, he had his share of fights. Truth be told, he enjoyed them.
Arnie’s mom, Doris, was as gentle as Pap was tough. “She was a salvation,” Palmer said. “I was always afraid to lose because of my father’s reaction, but I never felt that way about my mother.”
THE ARNOLD PALMER COLLECTION
Arnold met Winnie on a Tuesday and asked her to marry him that Saturday. They eloped. (“I took her out the window, as a matter of fact.”) “A golf wife,” she said, “can pick her husband up when he’s down.”
THE ARNOLD PALMER COLLECTION
First daughter Peggy getting a lesson from Arnie as Winnie looks on. “[Peggy and Amy] don’t agree with their father about a single thing,” Winnie said, “except the things that truly matter.”
Deacon (far left) and Doris (two places to his right) on the Augusta lawn between the clubhouse and the course around 1959. “Why do I want to win the Masters?” Palmer said. “Why do I want to breathe?”
HARRY FRYE
Arnie was always the most colorful golfer, even when it came to clothing. At a Masters, Phil Mickelson elected a salmon shirt, saying, “It doesn’t look good on me, but Arnold Palmer likes to wear this color.”
GOLF DIGEST
Most of the go
od pros before Palmer were purposely stoic. They wanted to hide their feelings. Arnie threw his out there for everybody to see. “He showed up different,” Tommy Bolt said.
The left seat for 25,000 hours. “I used to think of myself as a realist as a golfer and a romantic as a pilot,” Palmer said. “I don’t know when I became a romantic as a golfer and a realist as a pilot.”
THE ARNOLD PALMER COLLECTION
Walking through a funnel of flowers from the sixth tee to the par 3 green below: 50 Masters exactly, four victories. “Everything about Augusta turned me on,” Palmer said. He always knew it would be his home.
DOM FURORE, GOLF DIGEST
Palmer and his assistant, Doc Giffin, in Arnold’s office workshop at Latrobe, stocked with some 2,000 old putters. “Maybe Doc’s real title should be ‘friend,’” Arnold said, “or ‘everlasting friend.’”
Golf’s Big Three—Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Arnold Palmer. “At the end of the day,” Player said, “the three of us played not for money, not for trophies, not for history, but for each other.”
GOLF DIGEST
Palmer and his dog, Mulligan. In the end, Arnie didn’t walk Mulligan so much as they walked each other, both allowing for his friend’s diminishing capacity. “We’ll be old one of these days,” Arnie said.
THE ARNOLD PALMER COLLECTION
On a September day in 2016, at Latrobe Country Club and, 10 miles away, over the Palmer statue at Laurel Valley Golf Course in Ligonier, a rainbow appeared. The Arnold Palmer rainbow, Pennsylvanians called it.
GOLF DIGEST
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
TOM CALLAHAN, a former senior writer at Time magazine and sports columnist at the Washington Post, is the author of Johnny U, In Search of Tiger, The Bases Were Loaded (and So Was I), The GM, and His Father’s Son: Earl and Tiger Woods. He lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.
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The Bases Were Loaded (and So Was I)
In Search of Tiger: A Journey Through Golf with Tiger Woods
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