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Arnold Palmer  |
EXEMPT STATUS: 75 or more All-Time Victories FULL NAME: Arnold Palmer HEIGHT: 5-10 WEIGHT: 185 BIRTHDATE: September 10, 1929 BIRTHPLACE: Latrobe, PA RESIDENCE: Latrobe, PA; Bay Hill, FL FAMILY: Peggy (2/26/56), Amy (8/4/58); seven grandchildren EDUCATION: Wake Forest University SPECIAL INTERESTS: Flying, business, clubmaking TURNED PROFESSIONAL: 1954 JOINED TOUR: 1980 |
| PGA TOUR Victories |
| (62) 1955 Canadian Open. 1956 Insurance City Open, Eastern Open. 1957 Houston Open, Azalea Open Invitational, Rubber City Open Invitational, San Diego Open Invitational. 1958 St. Petersburg Open Invitational, Masters Tournament, Pepsi Championship. 1959 Thunderbird Invitational, Oklahoma City Open Invitational, West Palm Beach Open Invitational. 1960 Palm Springs Desert Golf Classic, Texas Open Invitational, Baton Rouge Open Invitational, Pensacola Open Invitational, Masters Tournament, U.S. Open Championship, Insurance City Open Invitational, Mobile Sertoma Open Invitational. 1961 San Diego Open Invitational, Phoenix Open Invitational, Baton Rouge Open Invitational, Texas Open Invitational, Western Open, British Open Championship. 1962 Palm Springs Golf Classic, Phoenix Open Invitational, Masters Tournament, Texas Open Invitational, Tournament of Champions, Colonial National Invitation Tournament, British Open Championship, American Golf Classic. 1963 Los Angeles Open, Phoenix Open Invitational, Pensacola Open Invitational, Thunderbird Classic Invitational, Cleveland Open Invitational, Western Open, Whitemarsh Open Invitational. 1964 Masters Tournament, Oklahoma City Open Invitational. 1965 Tournament of Champions. 1966 Los Angeles Open, Tournament of Champions, Houston Champions International. 1967 Los Angeles Open, Tucson Open Invitational, American Golf Classic, Thunderbird Classic. 1968 Bob Hope Desert Classic, Kemper Open. 1969 Heritage Golf Classic, Danny Thomas-Diplomat Classic. 1970 National Four-Ball Championship. 1971 Bob Hope Desert Classic, Florida Citrus Invitational, Westchester Classic, National Team Championship. 1973 Bob Hope Desert Classic. |
| Champions Tour Victories |
| (10) 1980 PGA Seniors' Championship. 1981 U.S. Senior Open. 1982 Marlboro Classic, Denver Post Champions of Golf. 1983 Boca Grove Classic. 1984 General Foods PGA Seniors' Championship, Senior Tournament Players Championship, Quadel Senior Classic. 1985 Senior Tournament Players Championship. 1988 Crestar Classic. |
| International Victories |
| 1990, 1992, 1993 Senior Skins Games. 1984 Doug Sanders Celebrity Pro-Am. 1986 Union Mutual Classic. |
| Other Victories |
| 1954 U.S. Amateur. 1955 Panama Open, Colombia Open. 1961 and 1962 British Open. 1963 Australian Wills Masters Tournament. 1964 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship. 1966 Australian Open, PGA Team Championship (with Jack Nicklaus). 1967 Piccadilly World Match Play Championship, World Cup (individual). 1971 Lancome Trophy. 1975 Spanish Open, British PGA Championship. 1980 Canadian PGA Championship. TEAM VICTORIES: 1960, 1962 Canada Cup (with Sam Snead). 1963, 1964, 1966 Canada Cup (with Jack Nicklaus). 1966 PGA Team Championship (with Jack Nicklaus). 1967 World Cup (with Jack Nicklaus) |
| Current Year Champions Tour Money and Positions |
| $16,400 (92) |
| Current Year Best Champions Tour Finishes |
| Current Year PGA TOUR Best Round |
| 83 at Round 1, Masters Tournament, at Round 2, Masters Tournament |
| Current Year Champions Tour Best Round |
| 73 at Round 1, MasterCard Championship, at Round 1, Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf |
| Current Year Champions Tour Highlights |
| Matched his age for the seventh time in his career when he opened with a 73 at the MasterCard Championship...Shot his age again when he posted a 73 in the first round of the Liberty Mutual Legends of Golf in Savannah, GA. |
| Best PGA TOUR Finishes |
| 1--1955 Canadian Open. 1956 Insurance City Open, Eastern Open. 1957 Houston Open, Azalea Open Invitational, Rubber City Open Invitational, San Diego Open Invitational. 1958 St. Petersburg Open Invitational, Masters Tournament, Pepsi Championship. 1959 Thunderbird Invitational, Oklahoma City Open Invitational, West Palm Beach Open Invitational. 1960 Palm Springs Desert Golf Classic, Texas Open Invitational, Baton Rouge Open Invitational, Pensacola Open Invitational, Masters Tournament, U.S. Open Championship, Insurance City Open Invitational, Mobile Sertoma Open Invitational. 1961 San Diego Open Invitational, Phoenix Open Invitational, Baton Rouge Open Invitational, Texas Open Invitational, Western Open, British Open Championship. 1962 Palm Springs Golf Classic, Phoenix Open Invitational, Masters Tournament, Texas Open Invitational, Tournament of Champions, Colonial National Invitation Tournament, British Open Championship, American Golf Classic. 1963 Los Angeles Open, Phoenix Open Invitational, Pensacola Open Invitational, Thunderbird Classic Invitational, Cleveland Open Invitational, Western Open, Whitemarsh Open Invitational. 1964 Masters Tournament, Oklahoma City Open Invitational. 1965 Tournament of Champions. 1966 Los Angeles Open, Tournament of Champions, Houston Champions International. 1967 Los Angeles Open, Tucson Open Invitational, American Golf Classic, Thunderbird Classic. 1968 Bob Hope Desert Classic, Kemper Open. 1969 Heritage Golf Classic, Danny Thomas-Diplomat Classic. 1970 National Four-Ball Championship. 1971 Bob Hope Desert Classic, Florida Citrus Invitational, Westchester Classic, National Team Championship. 1973 Bob Hope Desert Classic. |
| Best Champions Tour Finishes |
| 1--1980 PGA Seniors' Championship. 1981 U.S. Senior Open. 1982 Marlboro Classic, Denver Post Champions of Golf. 1983 Boca Grove Classic. 1984 General Foods PGA Seniors' Championship, Senior Tournament Players Championship, Quadel Senior Classic. 1985 Senior Tournament Players Championship. 1988 Crestar Classic. |
| Best 2002 Champions Tour Finishes |
| T70--Uniting Fore Care Classic Presented by Novell |
| 2002 Season PGA TOUR |
| Tournaments Entered--3; in money--; Top 10 finishes--0 |
| 2002 Season Champions Tour |
| Tournaments Entered--8; in money--6; Top 10 finishes--0 |
| 2002 Season Highlights |
| Matched his age in the final round of the Napa Valley Championship when he shot a 1-over 73. It was the first time he shot his age since opening with a 1-under 71 at the 2001 Senior PGA Championship at Ridgewood CC in New Jersey. Accomplishment in Napa made him the eighth and final player to shoot or better his age on the Champions Tour last year...Remained the only player to have competed in every U.S. Senior Open when he made his 22nd consecutive appearance at Caves Valley...Also made his record 48th consecutive start at the Masters. Announced after first round that 2002 would be his final competitive appearance at Augusta National. |
| Career Highlights |
| 2001: Became just the third player in PGA TOUR history to shoot his age when he fired a 1-under-par 71 in the fourth round of the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic...Shot his age again on the Champions Tour when he opened with another 1-under-par 71 in May at the Senior PGA Championship at Ridgewood CC in New Jersey. 2000: Reached a milestone in July when he played his 1,000th TOUR event at The Instinet Classic...Bettered his age for the first time when he fired a 3-under-par 69 in the second round of the FleetBoston Classic. One week earlier had matched his age with a final-round 70 at the Novell Utah Showdown, the first time he had shot his age since posting a final-round 66 at the 1995 GTE Northwest Classic. Also matched his age with a 71 at the Vantage Championship. Joined Jack Nicklaus and Byron Nelson as the first recipients of the Payne Stewart Award presented at the The TOUR Championship. 1997: Underwent surgery for prostate cancer in mid-January and made his first start after the surgery at the PGA TOUR's Bay Hill Invitational in late March. 1996: Captained the United States team to victory in the Presidents Cup near Washington. 1995: Shot his age for the first time in the final round of the GTE Northwest Classic in Seattle, carding a 66 on his birthday...Made triumphal return to St. Andrews for his final British Open appearance on the 35th anniversary of his first Open Championship in 1960. 1994: Played in his last U.S. Open at Oakmont CC near Pittsburgh, 40 years after competing in his first one. 1993: Pocketed $190,000 at the Senior Skins Game and was the event's leading money-winner for a second straight year...Was the designated honoree at The Memorial at Muirfield Village. 1992: Racked up $205,000 in winning the Senior Skins Game at Mauna Lani...Carded the 16th hole-in-one of his career, and last in competition, in the opening round of the GTE Northwest Classic. 1988: Had his finest earnings year as a Champions Tour player, placing 17th on the final money list with $185,373...Recorded his last official win near Richmond, claiming the Crestar Classic title in wire-to-wire fashion by four strokes over Lee Elder, Larry Mowry and Jim Ferree. 1986: Made holes-in-one on consecutive days at the par-3 third hole at the Tournament Players Club at Avenel during the Chrysler Cup pro-am competition, a first for a professional player. 1985: Ran away from the field with an 11-shot win at the Senior Tournament Players Championship at Canterbury GC near Cleveland, and established an all-time record for largest margin of victory, not broken until Hale Irwin's 12-shot win at the 1997 PGA Seniors' Championship. 1984: His three victories during the campaign were the most in any single season of his Champions Tour career and marked the first time since 1971 that he claimed a trio of titles in a year...Won a pair of Champions Tour major championships: the PGA Seniors' Championship by two strokes over Don January, and the Senior Tournament Players Championship where he bested Peter Thomson by three shots...Also edged Orville Moody and Lee Elder by one at the Quadel Seniors Classic near the end of the campaign. 1983: Ended a 15-month victory drought by capturing the season-ending Boca Grove Senior Classic. 1982: Collected a pair of titles, the first coming at the Marlboro Classic by four strokes over Billy Casper and Bob Rosburg...Added the Denver Post Champions of Golf title when he held off Bob Goalby by a stroke. 1981: Became the first player to claim both a U.S. Open and U.S. Senior Open title with his playoff victory over Bob Stone and Billy Casper at Oakland Hills CC near Detroit. 1980: Playoff victory over Paul Harney at the PGA Seniors' Championship made him the first of only 10 men to claim the first official Champions Tour event he entered...Debuted on the circuit at the unofficial World Seniors Invitational, finishing as runner-up to Gene Littler in Charlotte. |
| Personal |
| Maintains an active business schedule with golf course design, construction and development...A pilot of considerable renown, he once held one world aviation record and was the first person to receive a Citation X aircraft off the production line. Got a newer version of the Citation X just prior to this year's Verizon Classic in February...Chairman of the Board of The Golf Channel...Collaborated with Jack Nicklaus on The King and Bear Course at the World Golf Village that opened in November, 2000. |
| PGA TOUR Playoff Record |
| 14-10 |
| Champions Tour Playoff Record |
| 2-1 |