Arnold Palmer and ten courses baring his fingerprints
Few in life can say they had such a profound impact on their chosen profession as to change it -- but that’s precisely what Arnold Palmer did for golf. The young, unflappable player with dashing good looks transformed the game from one for the idle rich to one for the masses. Audiences watching on television, a medium then still in its infancy, marveled at how the dashingly handsome Palmer handled the clubs and himself around the links. And, the occasional masquerade as Superman didn’t hurt, either. Take the 1960 U.S. Open at Cherry Hills in Denver, for example. Palmer, fresh...
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