Arnold Palme

Description: Sports: Golf / Sport Topic: Golf Players

Newest Review: ... he birdied the final two holes at Augusta National in Georgia to win the 1960 Masters tournament, and only two months after this he repeated the winning exercise, by scoring a final round 65 to win the US Open. All was not sweetness and light for Arnie though, as he had the misfortune to play his best golf during ... more

... the same period as two other giants of the sport, the “Golden Bear” himself, Jack Nicklaus, and the irrepressible little South African, Gary Player. Together they became known as the “Big Three”, and, until the recent rise of ...more

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Arnold Palme: This Guy Has His Own Private Army (1154 words)
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~ ~ Arnold Palmer, from here on called by his nickname “Arnie”, is the American professional golfer who almost single-handedly dragged the game of golf from the doldrums in the 1950’s and 1960’s, when it had hit perhaps one of its lowest ebbs. Born in 1929 in Latrobe in Pennsylvania, this was a guy who looked as though he had just come of the building site, with his rugged features and hands that resembled two sides of ham. ~ ~ His golf swing wasn’t anything special, and he broke almost every rule in the book when it came to “how to” swing the golf club. The best way to describe it would be to liken it to someone ... Read the complete review

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