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Arnold to Play in U.S. Senior Open at Dayton
Arnold Palmer will tee it up on Thursday, July 28, in his 25th consecutive U.S. Senior Open at the NCR Country Club in Dayton, Ohio. No other player has started in more than 19 (Dale Douglass). Palmer won the Senior Open in 1981 at Oakland Hills Country Club at Detroit, playing in the event the first time he was eligible, and has not missed the championship since then. The inaugural Senior Open, won by Roberto De Vicenzo at Winged Foot in 1980, had a 55 minimum age. That was dropped to 50 for 1981. Arnold was 51 when he defeated Billy Casper and Bob Stone in an 18-hole playoff at Oakland Hills that year, thereby becoming the first man to have won the U.S. Amateur, U.S. Open and U.S. Senior Open. His best subsequent finish in the Senior Open was as runnerup to Miller Barber in 1984 at Oak Hill. Arnold competed in the 1969 PGA Championship, the last previous major event at NCR, but had to withdraw after the first round because of a back injury.
Posted by dgiffin at July 20, 2005 12:00 AM