RIP Arnold Palmer

[ChrisLong]

I read in a column today that Arnie won $1.8 million in official golf earnings. Same column said he earned $40 million in 2015.

 

[Huggy]

Mathew Futterman's recent book, Players: the story of sports and money, and the visionaries who fought to create a revolution, features a large section on Palmer and the start of IMG

 

[User 11148]

Mathew Futterman's recent book, Players: the story of sports and money, and the visionaries who fought to create a revolution, features a large section on Palmer and the start of IMG

I read an excerpt from that in some magazine a couple of months ago. Pretty interesting how Wilson (I think) dropped the ball on Palmer.

 

[playthrough]

I read in a column today that Arnie won $1.8 million in official golf earnings. Same column said he earned $40 million in 2015.

Golf Digest annually publishes a list of the richest golfers, combining on- and off-course earnings. For years the top three has pretty much been Tiger, Phil, Arnie.

 

[Songbird]

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Wrote Arnold a letter once and he wrote me back an even longer letter a week later. I was blown away and called a former teacher who was and still is a golf writer to tell him. "Yeah, that's just who he is. He spends an hour each day signing autographs for people who write."

Hope that beast has been somewhere around Barstow at least once.

 

[micropolitan guy]

If it's been mentioned, well, shame on me, but Ian O'Connor's "Arnie and Jack" was a great read.

Arnie is the reason I started playing golf in the mid-1960s as a teenager. I remember being crushed when he lost at Oakmont to Johnny Miller. Watched most of the final round from the porch on the Bob-O-Link on Transit Road in Orchard Park, sharing a sandwich and a pop with my father after our round at the par-3.

 

[Chef2]

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

An abridged version of the King and his empire. ....
Mighty damn impressive.

Arnold Palmer's $700m fortune: How The King built an empire

 

[Michael_ Gee]

That's a great photo, Chef. I wonder how much the SI photo archive would be worth if they sold it to collectors. Probably more than all of Time Inc.

 

[playthrough]

Good line in a tribute from golf writer Craig Dolch: "Palmer may not have been the most accurate driver, but he has 13 streets named after him in the U.S."

And yes, that's tremendous SI cover.

 

[Chef2]

Bay Hill #1 since his passing.
I still say the story of him and Roger Maris at the 1960 Hickok Belt Ceremony is one of the funniest stories ever told.

 

[Riptide]

Bay Hill #1 since his passing.
I still say the story of him and Roger Maris at the 1960 Hickok Belt Ceremony is one of the funniest stories ever told.

Board 101: Include the story. Don't leave people wondering.

When Arnold Palmer ran into Roger Maris at a ceremony to name the 1960 Hickok Belt award winner, signifying the professional athlete of the year, Maris asked Palmer, "What the hell are you doing here?" Upon winning the diamond-encrusted, alligator-skin belt, Palmer brushed past Maris on his way out the banquet door and said, "What the hell are you doing here?"

 

[Chef2]

Board 101: Include the story. Don't leave people wondering.

When Arnold Palmer ran into Roger Maris at a ceremony to name the 1960 Hickok Belt award winner, signifying the professional athlete of the year, Maris asked Palmer, "What the hell are you doing here?" Upon winning the diamond-encrusted, alligator-skin belt, Palmer brushed past Maris on his way out the banquet door and said, "What the hell are you doing here?"

I always thought Maris said "What the **** are you doing here?".......then Palmer responded the same.....

 

[Riptide]

I always thought Maris said "What the **** are you doing here?".......then Palmer responded the same.....

Probably true. This was the best Internet account I found, but most of the others had it as "WTF?"

 

[cisforkoke]

Maybe including the story was a bad idea.

 

[Chef2]

If anyone saw the tribute from the players in the field at Bay Hill this morning........everyone teeing off on driving range, very similar to all players at 00 US Open after Payne Stewart's death......very very cool.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Board 101: Include the story. Don't leave people wondering.

When Arnold Palmer ran into Roger Maris at a ceremony to name the 1960 Hickok Belt award winner, signifying the professional athlete of the year, Maris asked Palmer, "What the hell are you doing here?" Upon winning the diamond-encrusted, alligator-skin belt, Palmer brushed past Maris on his way out the banquet door and said, "What the hell are you doing here?"

Funny to think about a baseball player of that era looking down on the athletic ability of a golfer.

 

[CD Boogie]

Funny to think about a baseball player of that era looking down on the athletic ability of a golfer.

i suspect a lot of them still do, they just don't vocalize it. But man, that's a great story, had never heard it before.