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Palmer to Start Light Schedule with Senior PGA
In the latest season debut in his long career, Arnold Palmer will make his first start of 2006 on May 25 in Edmond, Oklahoma, to play in the opening round of the Senior PGA Championship. As he has indicated in recent interviews, Palmer plans a limited schedule this year following that first event at Oak Tree Country Club, scene of the 1988 PGA Championship and the 1984 U.S. Amateur Championship.
He expects to enter a handful of tournaments on the over-50 Champions Tour and is undecided regarding the U.S. Senior Open in July at Prairie Dunes Country Club in Hutchinson, Kansas. His only other formal commitment to date was for the Champions Tour's Constellation Energy Classic September 15-17 at Hayfields Country Club at Baltimore.
Palmer counts two Senior PGA Championships among his 12 official victories on the Champions Tour. He won the initial one in his first season of eligibility in 1980 at Turnberry Isle Country Club, North Miami, Florida, then landed the 1984 title when the tournament was played on the Champion course at PGA National Golf Club, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. He has missed just one Senior PGA over the past 26 years.
Posted by dgiffin at April 26, 2006 04:25 PM