Arnold Palmer
Arnold Palmer
Arnold Daniel Palmeris a retired American professional golfer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest players in professional golf history. He has won numerous events on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour, dating back to 1955. Nicknamed "The King", he is one of golf's most popular stars and its most important trailblazer, because he was the first superstar of the sport's television age, which began in the 1950s...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGolfer
Date of Birth10 September 1929
CityLatrobe, PA
CountryUnited States of America
I was mixing iced tea and lemonade in my kitchen since as long as I can remember. It wasn't until some time in the early 1960s that it became associated with me publicly.
I probably have a club in my hands 360 days a year, one way or another, playing with friends or just fiddling around or hitting balls.
You don't go to Palm Springs in the summer unless you're building a golf course.
When you lose the ability to step up and hit the ball as hard and as far as you want, that also affects your ability to will the ball to go where you want it to go, if you know what I mean.
Great touch is often written off simply as 'talent,' which is crucial, because a good swing can take a golfer only so far. I've seen thousands of fantastic swings in my day, but that doesn't guarantee anything.
My problem happens to be near-sightedness - inability to see distance. And this is pretty tough on a golfer.
When I was a kid, it was my family and God and the USGA. That was kind of the way I was raised.
I have a tip that will take five strokes off anyone's golf game. It's called an eraser.
To me, wearing glasses is no pleasure, but once I conceded that I simply couldn't properly judge distance without them, I began to experiment. I tried glasses and found them uncomfortable. I switched to contact lenses, and they also bothered me.
It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.
I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
I fly my own airplane, and I have since 1960. I rarely fly anywhere other than my own airplane.
The fact is the Berger Foundation has afford us the opportunity to do this. You can't beat it. This is something that, I think as far as golf and golf-related things are concerned, this is the kind of thing that should happen more and more, and particularly in cities where they have golf tournaments such as this.