Arnold Palmer is the King, and he has earned that name too, because he is the one of the greatest golfers of all time. He even has a tournament named after him, named the Arnold Palmer Invitational. From basically making the Senior PGA Golf, to when he started playing golf professionally, to how he made golf internationally more famous, this is how he has changed the golfing world.
When the Senior PGA Golf Tour started in 1930 and from 1930 to 1979 it wasn’t very popular, the prize purse(prize money) was small and no one really even knew about it. Then Arnold Palmer became eligible and when he played in 1980, the Tour became more popular. When the 1980 U.S. Senior Open came around he has won every tournament so far, but he couldn’t play because …show more content…
Amateur Championship, beating Robert Sweeney Jr. 1-up in the final, and he decided that he should give professional golf a try. That is how it started. His first PGA Tour win ever though was in the 1955 Canadian Open, and that was when he realized that he made the right decision to become professional. Before he won the US Amatuer, though he was in the Coast Guard for 3 years, while still playing in Amatuer tournaments(he was out of the Coast Guard at US Championship). He went to college at Wake Forest University, where he also golfed, but dropped out after the death of a close friend, and the rest is …show more content…
Before this happened though, the United States was the leading country for golf, the PGA was centered around it. The reason was because the golfers didn’t get a lot of pay compared to the U.S. Even though he didn’t win (came second to Kel Nagle, by one shot), he still made a HUGE IMPACT. He had the British Open become one of the major tours of this generation and if you win all of them it is called the Grand Slam which includes the U.S. Open, The Open Championship(British Open), the Masters, and the PGA Championship. He basically made the modern era of golf by making this tournament
When the Senior PGA Golf Tour started in 1930 and from 1930 to 1979 it wasn’t very popular, the prize purse(prize money) was small and no one really even knew about it. Then Arnold Palmer became eligible and when he played in 1980, the Tour became more popular. When the 1980 U.S. Senior Open came around he has won every tournament so far, but he couldn’t play because …show more content…
Amateur Championship, beating Robert Sweeney Jr. 1-up in the final, and he decided that he should give professional golf a try. That is how it started. His first PGA Tour win ever though was in the 1955 Canadian Open, and that was when he realized that he made the right decision to become professional. Before he won the US Amatuer, though he was in the Coast Guard for 3 years, while still playing in Amatuer tournaments(he was out of the Coast Guard at US Championship). He went to college at Wake Forest University, where he also golfed, but dropped out after the death of a close friend, and the rest is …show more content…
Before this happened though, the United States was the leading country for golf, the PGA was centered around it. The reason was because the golfers didn’t get a lot of pay compared to the U.S. Even though he didn’t win (came second to Kel Nagle, by one shot), he still made a HUGE IMPACT. He had the British Open become one of the major tours of this generation and if you win all of them it is called the Grand Slam which includes the U.S. Open, The Open Championship(British Open), the Masters, and the PGA Championship. He basically made the modern era of golf by making this tournament