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  Golfer's Lifestyle Magazine - Arnold Palmer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Arnold Palmer is many things to many people...world famous golf immortal and sportsman, highly-successful business executive, prominent advertising spokesman, skilled aviator, talented golf course designer and consultant, devoted family patriarch and a man with a down-to-earth common touch that has made him one of the most popular and accessible public figures in history.
Palmer is chairman of the board of the Golf Channel, based in Orlando, which went on the air on cable networks in January 1995.
Palmer was born on September 10, 1929, in Latrobe, a small industrial town in Western Pennsylvania at the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains some 50 miles east of Pittsburgh.
www.golferslifestyle.com /arnoldpalmer.php   (1381 words)

  
 Deacon Reservoir - Palmer Partnering   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Deacon, which supplies Winnipeg’s only emergency source of water, is an important project for the City and the work is valued al $17 million.
Deacon required immediate attention to increase summer water capacity and provide storage for rehabilitation of the 75 year-old aqueduct to which it is connected.
One of the reasons Deacon has Partnered so well is that the CEO levels of each partner company were at the Partnering Workshop and each publicly stated their commitment to the Partnering principles of trust, mutual respect, common goals and empowerment of the front line.
www.palmerpartnering.com /deacon_reservoir.htm   (1112 words)

  
 The 66th Annual Senior PGA Championship / Arnold Palmer Tribute / Palmer Timeline
Palmer wins the Los Angeles Open after tying his career best of 62 in the third round, the Tournament of Champions, the Australian Open, the Houston Champions International, the PGA Team Championship and the Canada Cup, both with partner Jack Nicklaus.
Palmer is elected to the Ohio Golf Hall of Fame and the Phoenix Open Hall of Fame.
Palmer becomes the third player in PGA Tour history to shoot his age with a 71 in the fourth round of the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic.
www.pga.com /seniorpga/2005/palmer/palmer_timeline.html   (1186 words)

  
 Golf: Arnold Palmer - Brian Keogh - K and S Sports
He was the son of Milfred “Deacon” Palmer who was he course superintendent and professional at the Latrobe Country Club course and lived in a small house near the sixth hole.
Palmer had and still has charisma, the common touch and a kindness not often seen at his level of sporting achievement and the humility taught him by his father.
Palmer was not perfect and was petty in his rivalry with Jack Nicklaus but he was the peoples champion, they loved how he flirted with danger and lived to tell many lurid tales of triumph.
indigo.ie /~kands/kands/html/palmer.html   (1139 words)

  
 The 66th Annual Senior PGA Championship / Arnold Palmer Tribute / Did You Know?
Palmer suffers from a constitutional aversion to laying up, and so at the par-5 ninth he tried to force a 3-wood second shot down the narrowing throat.
Palmer's work day: Rise early as a monk, spend the first hour or so autographing stuff sent in by fans, do some business paperwork and make some phone calls, then fret until he gets out on the course.
And when they parted, Palmer wiped his hand on his slacks, walked past the classy medieval restaurant, walked past the comfy privacy of the oaken booths in the lounge, and he pulled up a stool at the bar, to join some pals.
www.pga.com /seniorpga/2005/palmer/did_you_know.html   (1318 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Deacon Palmer
Deacon John Palmer is a fictional character on TV's The King of Queens.
Deacon is married to Kelly Palmer (Merrin Dungey).
In the third season, Deacon was caught by Doug having dinner with an old friend, Angie, under suspicious circumstances.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Deacon-Palmer   (402 words)

  
 Arnold Palmer speaks for International Speakers Bureau
Palmer is president of Arnold Palmer Enterprises, a multi-division structure encompassing much of his global commercial activity that is centered in Cleveland.
Palmer is president and sole owner (since 1971) of Latrobe Country Club and president and principal owner of the Bay Hill Club and Lodge, Orlando, FL, which he and a group of associates acquired in 1970.
Palmer also is tournament professional and member of the board of directors of Laurel Valley Golf Club, Ligonier, PA, with which he has been affiliated since its founding in the late 1950s.
www.isbmedia.com /speakers/ISBB-552UZF/Arnold_Palmer   (1416 words)

  
 Palmer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (1640–1709), English mistress of King Charles II Bertha Palmer (1849–1918), American businesswoman, socialite, and philanthropist
Carl Palmer (1950–), English musician of the trio Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Palmer Archipelago, group of islands off the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Palmer   (546 words)

  
 69th Annual Dapper Dan Dinner: Palmer to be honored with lifetime award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
But, at Latrobe, Palmer is not revered for what he has accomplished as much as for the style and grace in which he achieved his success.
And when it came time to say goodbye, when Palmer stood on the Swilcan Bridge at St. Andrews in 1995 and waved to the massive crowds that lined the 18th fairway, the Brits embraced him as though he were a member of the royal family.
Palmer turned professional shortly after the victory, and the game of golf was never the same.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05093/481634.stm   (1593 words)

  
 USRF - Arnold Palmer: The Legend Continues...
His father, Milfred "Deacon" Palmer, who worked at Latrobe Country Club as both golf professional and course superintendent, gave his young son lots of encouragement and pointers so it came as no surprise that young Arnie was beating some of the older caddies by the time he reached his teen years.
Palmer says he has a lot of confidence in his doctors, at the time of his diagnosis and now.
Palmer says that a lot of men have come to him and said that they are getting their PSAs because they have heard him recommend it.
www.usrf.org /news/010815-Arnold_Palmer_CaP.html   (1596 words)

  
 The New York Times: This Day In Sports
The pivotal hole for Palmer turned out to be the 475-yard, par-5 13th, where he turned in a prodigious 3 for an eagle.
Ken Venturi of California, who was paired with Palmer, was still in contention at that point, but his putting difficulties at the fourteenth smashed his hopes.
Palmer, as one of the "young guard" in golf, has been highly successful since he became a professional in November of 1954.
www.nytimes.com /packages/html/sports/year_in_sports/04.06.html   (667 words)

  
 Arnold Palmer -
He is President of Arnold Palmer Enterprises, a world-encompassing organization based in Cleveland that covers most of his business and appearance activities, and has ownership positions in three golf and country clubs, an automobile dealership and a flourishing golf course design company.
Arnold Palmer was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1929.
He grew up on the grounds of Latrobe Country Club and developed his love for the game of golf through the encouragement of his parents, especially his father, Milfred J. (Deacon) Palmer, who was the golf professional and grounds superintendent for nearly 50 years.
www2.ibgcheckout.com /arnoldpalmer/page/thelegend.jsp   (420 words)

  
 Latrobe Country Club - WPGA
Both Deke and Arnold Palmer contributed heavily to the design of the nine new holes and the revamping of the existing holes to fit the layout.
The 6,407-yard, par-72 course matured into a beautiful and demanding test of golf, thanks primarily to the diligence and constant care of Deke Palmer, second son Jerry, current superintendent Martin Repko and their experienced grounds crews and the planting of many thousands of pines and other trees over the years on the club's 110 acres.
Deacon Palmer, who had become the grounds superintendent in 1926 and the golf professional in 1932, remained active until his death at the age of 71 in February, 1976, although he retired as golf professional the previous fall.
www.wpga.org /membership/latrobe.html   (610 words)

  
 ABC News: Person of the Week: Arnold Palmer
Palmer was golf's first celebrity in the television era, and helped change the way the sport is seen.
Deacon Palmer taught his son golf, getting him his first set of clubs when he was only three.
Palmer is fond of the story about two golf veterans who once watched him play.
abcnews.go.com /WNT/PersonOfWeek/story?id=131828&page=1   (352 words)

  
 Arnold Palmer: Biography
Palmer and his second wife, Kathleen (Kit) Gawthrop were married in a private ceremony in Hawaii on January 26, 2005.
The Palmer family consists of two daughters -- Peggy Palmer Wears, of Durham, NC, and Amy Palmer Saunders, of Windermere, FL; five granddaughters, Emily (1/27/81), Katherine Anne (9/2/82), Anne Palmer (9/14/84) Saunders, Anna Flexer Wears (2/24/97) and Peggy's stepdaughter, Nicola Wears (4/15/82), and two grandsons, Samuel Palmer Saunders (7/30/87) and William Gray Palmer Wears (10/16/94).
Palmer’s second wife has three children – son Al Gawthrop III and daughters Lynn Bouck and Blair Gawthrop, all living in the Denver area.
www.arnoldpalmer.com /en/content/allarnie/arnoldpalmer/biography-3.aspx   (488 words)

  
 Random House Publishing Group | A Golfer's Life by Arnold Palmer
To the legions of golf fans around the world, Palmer is a charismatic hero, the winner of sixty-one tournaments on the PGA Tour and still going strong on the Senior PGA Tour.
Writing with the humor and candor that are as much his trademark as his unique golf swing, Palmer narrates the deeply moving story of his life both on and off the links.
Arnold Palmer has lived one of the great sporting lives of the twentieth century.
www.primapublishing.com /rhpg/catalog/display.pperl?0-345-41482-9   (267 words)

  
 Deacon's Walk - Signature Golf Course Community - Blaine, Minnesota   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Take 600 acres of flat sod farms, allow one of golf's great legends and architects, Arnold Palmer, to move more than five million yards of soil, create 90 acres of open water, build a world-class PGA TOUR golf facility and the result is over 230 of the north Metro's finest single-family custom home sites.
Despite the over 700 homes in Deacon's Walk, the creation of smaller individual custom home neighborhoods within the community offers each family a more private and intimate setting for their new home.
PALMER PLACE, Deacon's Walk's newest neighborhood, has the greatest variety of home sites of any of the custom neighborhoods within Deacon's Walk.
www.deaconswalk.org /lots.html   (439 words)

  
 GOLFONLINE - 50 years ago Arnold Palmer began his march to glory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In the fifth round at the Country Club of Detroit, Palmer faced Frank Stranahan, who had beaten him 4 and 3 in the 1950 Amateur and 11 and 10 in the 36-hole semifinal of another event.
In the 36-hole semifinal against Edward Meister Jr., Palmer shot 76 in the morning round but was still 1-up after halving the 18th with a double-bogey.
Palmer hugged his crying mother, Doris, and searched the crowd for his famously circumspect father, Deacon.
www.golfonline.com /golfonline/print/0,18068,688994,00.html   (618 words)

  
 Arnold Palmer
Arnold Palmer was born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania on September 10, 1929 to Milfred J. "Deacon" and Doris Palmer.
"Deacon" Palmer was a golf professional and the course superintendent at the Latrobe Country Club.
Palmer was named PGA Player of the Year twice, Associate Press Athlete of the Decade for the 1960s, 1960 Hickok Athlete of the Year, Sportsman of the Year in 1960 by
statelibrary.dcr.state.nc.us /nc/bio/sports/arnie.htm   (721 words)

  
 ISBN 0345414810, A Golfer's Life by ARNOLD PALMER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Palmer has been one of my "heros" since I was eight years old or so, so, in my eyes, he could do little wrong, including writing his autobiography.
But more than this, Palmer gives fascinating insights to his business life and associations with the famous in other fields, from presidents to show business personalities, to his fellow-golfers over six decades, always making it clear that his first love is his family.
Palmer may be a little old-fashioned in his outlook for some of today's readers and indeed the schmaltz might be a little thick at times, but this still rates as a sports book of excellent quality.
www.findusedbook.com /books-isbn/0345414810   (1099 words)

  
 AugustaSports.Com: The Augusta Chronicle's Sports Coverage: Palmer will join Augusta National Golf Club 09/19/99
However, sources both at the Augusta National and close to Palmer have confirmed that the man known as ``The King of Golf'' was invited to join the club after the 1998-99 season.
Palmer is the highest profile professional sports figure currently a member at the club, which is estimated to have 300-plus members, about 35 of which are Augustans.
Palmer is the only Augusta National member to have a plaque in his honor on the golf course.
augustasports.com /stories/091999/oth_085-7680.000.shtml   (852 words)

  
 Deft Strokes
Palmer and McCormack turned out to be a dynamic pair, virtually inventing the field of sports marketing.
The Palmers have two daughters, Peg and Amy, who are married and have families of their own.
Palmer was born during the Depression, and occasionally he projects a mild stodginess.
netscape.businessweek.com /1999/99_19/b3628044.htm   (433 words)

  
 'The King' is still golf royalty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Palmer was back in St. Louis on Tuesday, swelling the galleries outside the ropes of Bellerive Country Club, spreading good will and golf kinship as only he can.
Palmer is excited about this edition of the Senior Open, a tournament he won in 1981.
Palmer came to town in 2000 to play in the Senior PGA event at Boone Valley.
www.golf.com /gdc/news/article.asp?id=25365   (1197 words)

  
 'A Golfer’s Life' by Arnold Palmer
Arnold Palmer is one of the most popular sports figures in the 20th century, but nowhere is the tie stronger than around Palmer’s native Latrobe.
There is “Deacon” Palmer — Pap to Arnie — the laborer-turned-greenskeeper who raised a son to appreciate right from wrong.
There is Doris Palmer, who made sure that she found a way to have her son play golf on the club’s course, even though he was forbidden as an employee’s child.
www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19990411review224.asp   (336 words)

  
 Arnold Palmer: A Biographical Look | USGA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Arnold Palmer is many things to many people -- world famous golf immortal and sportsman, highly-successful business executive, prominent advertising spokesman, skilled aviator, talented golf course designer and consultant, devoted family patriarch and a man with a down-to-earth common touch that has made him one of the most popular and accessible public figures in history. 
Arnold Palmer acknowledges the gallery during this year's Senior Open, which he said would be his last.
Palmer on the move much of the year, most of the travel in his Cessna Citation X jet aircraft with
www.usga.org /news/2005/november/palmer_bio.html   (1067 words)

  
 Tournament Club of Iowa Golf Club   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Arnold Palmer has had a brilliant career in tournament golf – which includes the winning of virtually every major golf tournament in the United States and around the world.
Equally brilliant is his talent and dimension in the area of design and construction of outstanding golf courses is among the leaders of the profession today.
Palmer Course Design Company is a complete worldwide golf course planning and design organization.
www.tcofiowa.com /tcofiowa/coursedesign.asp   (284 words)

  
 Arnold Palmer Golf Academy - Orlando, FL - Golf Instruction
Palmer's personal selection of all Academy instructors is a perfect example of his dedication to the traditions of golf and his commitment to give back to the game.
All instructors must possess the same winning attitude and the same total adherence to the fundamentals Deacon Palmer taught his son.
Palmer's #1 swing thought: moving your head more than slightly during the swing causes both loss of distance and accuracy due to an ever-changing swing plane.
yp.bellsouth.com /sites/apga/page4.html   (813 words)

  
 Arnold Palmer : A Golfer's Life by Arnold Palmer, James Dodson
To the legions of golf fans known around the world as "Arnie's Army," Palmer is a charismatic hero, the winner of sixty-one tournaments on the PGA Tour and still going strong on the Senior PGA Tour.
His rise to fame was meteoric, and by the 1960s he had emerged as one of the few American athletes the public truly cared about--a vibrant, daring, handsome sports celebrity who attracted wild crowds and enormous television audiences whenever he played and whose charisma propelled the explosion of enthusiam for golf in the sixties.
Returning to the Senior PGA Tour with unmatched zeal after his recovery, Palmer reminded fans of his unfaltering heroism--and the world of golf is thankful.
www.any-book.com /golfers_life.htm   (303 words)

  
 DVD Talk > Reviews > The King of Queens - The Complete First Season > Printer Friendly
Deacon stars snubbing his friend, upset that he wasn't chosen as the fill-in guy and suspicious that race was involved in making the decision.
While Deacon's distance bothers Doug, what's more frightening is the possibility that he may be stuck behind a desk shuffling papers indefinitely.
Deacon takes Doug to the hospital but Doug leaves the emergency room to meet Carrie before he can be seen by a doctor.
www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=8601   (3588 words)

  
 ARNOLD PALMER...A BIOGRAPHY
Arnold Palmer is many things to many people...world famous golf immortal and sportsman, highly-successful business executive, prominent advertising spokesman, skilled aviator, talented golf course designer and consultant, devoted husband, father and grandfather and a man with a down-to-earth common touch that has made him one of the most popular and accessible public figures in history.
His modest business empire and tournament play keep Palmer on the move much of the year, most of the travel in his Cessna Citation VII jet aircraft with Arnold at the controls when aboard.
The Palmers have two daughters - Peggy Palmer Wears, of Durham, NC, and Amy Palmer Saunders, of Windermere, FL; four granddaughters, Emily (1127/81), Katherine Anne (912182), Anne Palmer (9/14184) Saunders and Nicola Wears and a grandson, Samuel Palmer Saunders (7130187).
www.sandhills.org /plantation/golf/palmer.htm   (1632 words)

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