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February 09, 2005
Palmer Heavily Involved in Senior PGA Championship
Arnold Palmer expects to perform
double duty in May when he plans to compete in the Senior PGA
Championship at the Laurel Valley Golf Club and serve as honorary
chairman of the major Champions Tour event. The tournament will
be played May 26-29 at the prestigious Western Pennsylvania club with
which Palmer has been associated since its founding in the late
1950s. It is located in Ligonier, some 10 miles from Palmer's
original home and office at Latrobe. Palmer's first senior
victory came in the 1980 Senior PGA Championship and he won again in
1954. All information about this year's Senior PGA is available at
1-800-PGA-GOLF (1-800-742-4653) or on the website:
www.seniorpga2005.com.
Posted by dgiffin at 12:00 AM
We're Talking a Billion
Professional golf's leading players have cashed in
handsomely and directly through their tournament competition. A
compilation prepared for the upcoming annual edition of the book,
The World of Professional Golf, detailing every sanctioned professional tour tournament, reveals that the top 50 career money-winners have collected $1,117,669,572. Tiger Woods ($55,452,437), Ernie Els ($49,822,769) and Vijay Singh ($46,554,712) head the list. Remarkable when you consider that Arnold Palmer was in his 14th season when he became the first player to win $1 million on the PGA Tour.
Posted by dgiffin at 12:00 AM
February 04, 2005
Palmer to Settle for Host Role at Bay Hill
Arnold Palmer, who has served as both a competitor
and the host of the Bay Hill Invitational since he established it at
his Orlando club in 1979, will relinquish his role as a player for the
first time when the tournament presented by MasterCard begins on
Thursday, March 17. Since Palmer, now 75, had previously declared that the 2004 Masters Tournament would be his final one as a player, he will not appear in a tournament during a PGA Tour season for the first time since he joined the circuit in 1955. However, he has indicated that he will continue to play selective events on the Champions Tour, including the Senior Open and Senior PGA
Championships. The BHI is one of the invitational jewels on
the PGA Tour which always attracts a strong international field in one
of the run-up weeks to the Masters in April. Information is
available on the tournament website:
www.bayhillinvitational.com.
Posted by dgiffin at 12:00 AM
February 03, 2005
Palmer to Deliver Wake Forest Commencement Address
Arnold Palmer, who has had ties to Wake Forest University
since his college days in the late 1940s, will deliver the commencement address at the annual ceremony May 16 on the school's University Plaza at Winston-Salem. Palmer, then a prominent junior golfer in his native Western Pennsylvania, enrolled at Wake Forest in the fall of 1947 when the school was located in its namesake town and established himself as one of the top collegiate golfers in the country. He later became the first and most successful of a long succession of Wake Forest golfers who went on the fine careers on the PGA Tour. After many years of service on the Board of Trustees, he was elected a lifetime trustee in 1997. He established a scholarship there as a memorial to his close college friend and teammate, Marvin (Buddy) Worsham and an athletic dormitory was named in his honor.
Posted by dgiffin at 12:00 AM
Western PA to Toast Palmer at Pittsburgh Dinner
Arnold Palmer will be honored at Pittsburgh's most
prestigious sports dinner on Sunday, April 17, when the Dapper Dan organization presents him with its Lifetime Achievement
Award. Palmer, one of the area's most celebrated athletes for
nearly a half century, was first honored as the 1960 Dapper Dan
Awardee following a brilliant season during which he won the
Masters, the U.S. Open and seven other tournaments. Palmer still
makes his summer home at his native Latrobe. For further
information about the dinner, contact the website:
www.post-gazette.com/dapperdan.
Posted by dgiffin at 12:00 AM
Southern Conference Honors Palmer
The Southern Conference has recognized the
collegiate achievements of Arnold Palmer at its new headquarters in
Spartanburg, SC, naming its conference boardroom in his honor.
Palmer won the Southern Conference golf championship in 1948 and 1949
while the No. 1 man on the then-Wake Forest College team.
Posted by dgiffin at 12:00 AM