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LA Times: Arnold Palmer, the King of golf, shows no signs of slowing down
October 06, 2009
Los Angeles Times - October 6, 2009 - By Bill Dwyre
At 80, Palmer looks trim and tan and still flies his own plane. During a stop at Rolling Hills Country Club, he answers some questions, including how an iced tea and lemonade blend came to bear his name.
If you play golf, watch it on TV, think you might take it up someday, or have hit a ball under a windmill and through a clown's mouth, there was no better place to be on a sparkling clear Saturday morning in Southern California.
The King was in town. The golfer who never had a gallery, always an Army, was in the house.
Arnold Palmer got out of a car, hitched up his pants and walked into the courtyard at the Rolling Hills Country Club like somebody about to shop for a new putter. The man who made the game the multi-billion-dollar sport it is today never acts like it. People surround him, keeping an arm's length as one would for royalty. And it is Palmer, always a little embarrassed by this sort of adulation, who engages them first.
Read the full story at LAtimes.com
Posted by scurry at October 6, 2009 05:13 PM