Winnie Palmer Bio

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Bud Worsham was the brother of a professional golfer. Worsham encouraged Palmer to accept a scholarship for golf at Wake Forest College, North Carolina. Worsham died in a car accident during Palmer’s senior year of college. After Worsham’s passing, Palmer was devastated and enlisted in the Coast Guard. He began to sell painting supplies in 1954 to help pay for his amateur golf. That year, he won the National Amateur Championship.

Starts pro-career

Palmer was a professional golfer when he became one in November 1954. He married Winnie Walzer a month later, who he met playing in an amateur tournament. Palmer won the Canadian Open in 1955, and earned twenty-four hundred dollars. He won three tournaments in 1956, and four in 1957. His earnings of twenty-eight million dollars made him the number five money-winner. In each of the following two seasons, Palmer won three tournaments. He won the prestigious Masters (honored), a tournament that is held every year in Augusta.

Palmer was a national hero in 1960 as he won the Masters and U.S. Open. He won the British Open in 1961, 1962, and the Masters in 1962-64. Palmer was one of the most prominent people in America. Palmer became involved in many businesses and tried his hand at acting in TV and movies. He also wrote a new book about golf every few years. With a yearly income exceeding one million dollars, Palmer was the most successful athlete in the world.

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Golf legend

Palmer won tournaments throughout the 1960s. However, some felt that his business was distracting him from golf. The Associated Press (AP), named Palmer Athlete of the Decade in 1970 (a ten year period). Palmer only won a few minor Professional Golfers Association titles (PGA) during the 1970s. He won the PGA Seniors title in 1980 when he joined the Senior PGA Tour. He won the 1981 Senior Open of the United States Golf Association (USGA), and he also took the PGA Seniors in 1984. He won his last Senior Tour victory in 1988. He made his last U.S. Open appearance at Oakmont, Pennsylvania in 1994. The cheers from his “Army”, brought him to tears. Similar scenes were witnessed at his 1995 British Open appearance.

Palmer has won almost every national award in golf. He won sixty-one PGA Tour victories, seven major championships included. He is a member of three golf halls of fame: the World Golf Hall of Fame and the American Golf Hall of Fame. Palmer used his celebrity to benefit charities. He was the Honorary National Chairman of March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation over twenty years. He was a key player in the fundraising efforts to build the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Women (Orlando, Florida). In 1992, he established a golf tournament to raise funds for the Latrobe Area Hospital.

Later years

In January 1997, Palmer had surgery to treat cancer. His wife, who was suffering from a different kind of cancer, was diagnosed after he had recovered. In 1999, she died. Palmer continued to be involved in golf. In a lawsuit brought to his aid by Casey Martin (golfer who wanted to be able to use a cart to get between holes) Palmer testified for the PGA. Palmer and others claimed that Martin would have an unfair advantage by using the cart.

Palmer was one of the investors who bought Pebble Beach in California for $820million in 1999. He was criticised for signing an endorsement agreement (payment to a person in return for public support for a company’s product) to promote a club that did not comply with USGA regulations. Palmer participated in his final Masters tournament, Augusta’s forty-eighth.

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