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Canada to Celebrate Palmer's First Pro Tour Win
"The Return of the King" is the theme around which golf officials in Toronto will stage a three-day fund-raising celebration marking the 50th anniversary of Arnold Palmer's first victory on the PGA Tour in the 1955 Canadian Open. The events will take place September 12-14 at the Weston Golf & Country Club, where Palmer scored the initial victory in a career that eventually saw him compile 92 wins throughout the world over the next three decades. The celebration, organized by the Greater Toronto Area Golfers' Association for its Greens & Dreams Fund, will have the Sick Kids Foundation as its major beneficiary. The primary events will be a pro-amateur tournament at Weston on September 12, a dinner that evening and the launch the next day of the "Kings & Queens Senior Amateur Championship," a new annual international tournament to be held at Weston each year. Marlene Stewart Streit, Canada's most prominent female amateur golfer, who was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame last November in Florida, will join Palmer in hitting ceremonial tee shots kicking off the Kings & Queens tournament on the 13th.
Posted by dgiffin at September 5, 2005 12:00 AM