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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Arnold Palmer
| It's been a long time since anyone saw Palmer play on the weekend in a regular PGA Tour event. The last time he made the 36 hole cut on the PGA Tour was in what year? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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1993. Arnold made the cut at the 1993 Nestle Invitational, where he finished in a tie for 71st place. But many of us would love to see him make one more cut just to watch him grind it out one last time.
| When he reached his 70s Palmer had effectively retired from competitive golf. He won more than 60 PGA Tour events in his career, and had a total of ____ Senior PGA Tour wins? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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10. Palmer has won only 10 Senior events, but he had a limited schedule on the tour until he felt that he could no longer compete at all on the regular tour. By that time he was in his late 50s, and soon a couple of fellows named Nicklaus and Trevino were winning everything on the Senior tour.
| Palmer has had great success as a product spokesperson in his life off the golf course, due mainly to his engaging personality and friendliness. What product is he best known as the primary spokesman for? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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Penzoil. Arnold and his old red tractor have been in countless TV and print advertisements for Penzoil since the 1970s.
| At the age of 50, Palmer was able to join the Senior PGA Tour, on which he enjoyed great success despite a very limited playing schedule. When he won his first senior major championship (The U.S. Senior Open), how old was he? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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51. He didn't play the first year he was eligible (1980), but won in his first attempt at the title the following year.
| Palmer remained competetive on the PGA Tour until late in his career. How many top ten finishes did Palmer have on Tour after the age of 40? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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49. Palmer continued to have top ten finishes until he was in his early 50s.
| Always respected as a sportsman and a gentleman, Palmer could have been Sports Illustrated's Sportman of the Year any year of his career. What year did he actually win this award? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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1960. Sports Illustrated could not ignore his 8 win, two major championship season in 1960 and made him their Sportsman of the Year.
| While Palmer never won any major championships after 1964, he often entered and played, even until late in his career. How old was he when he had his last top ten finish in a major? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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47. He finished tied for seventh at the 1977 British Open.
1971. Palmer had three wins that year, and due to the growth of the Tour, he earned more than three times the amount he won in 1960 when he had eight wins.
| When Arnold Palmer won the final title of his career on the PGA Tour in 1973, he defeated the two top players of the early 1970s, Jack Nicklaus and Johnny Miller, who tied for second. What was the event? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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The Bob Hope Desert Classic. Palmer beat the two great players for his sixth career win at the Bob Hope tournament.
| In 1971, at the age of 41, Palmer earned the biggest paycheck of his career for winning the Westchester Classic. What was his first place finish worth? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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$50,000. This was one of the richest prizes on the PGA Tour in 1971.
| Palmer was the first professional golfer to earn {$1} million during his career. What year did he pass the {$1} million mark in career earnings? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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1968. These days, there are several events in a year that have prizes of {$1} {million;} it took Palmer 13 years as a top player to earn that amount.
| In total, Arnold Palmer won all of his major championships in a seven year period (1958-1964). How many major championships did he win in that time? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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7. Arnold won the Masters in 1958, '60, '62 and '64, the U.S. Open in 1960, and the British Open in 1961 and '62.
| In his second place finish in the U.S. Open in 1966, Palmer was the victim of the most notorious collapse in the history of the event. How many stokes in the lead was he with nine holes to play before blowing his lead? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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7. Palmer shot four over, to Billy Casper's three under, over that nine holes of golf to end the 72 hole event tied for the lead. Casper won an eighteen hole playoff the next day.
| Palmer is the co-holder of the record for most runner-up finishes in the U.S. Open. Along with his one victory in this event, how many times did he finish second? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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4. He finished second in 1962, 1963, 1966 and 1967.
| In 1961 Palmer was attempting to win the Masters in back-to-back years, something that had never been done before. He would lose that event by one shot after making a disastrous double bogey on the last hole of the event. What golfer won the tournament due to Palmer's collapse? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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Gary Player. After Palmer's 6 on the par 4 eighteenth it handed the title to Player, who became the first non-American winner of the Masters.
| Palmer had a great year in 1960. How many total wins did he have for the year, which would be his all-time high for a single season? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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8. It would be fourteen years before another golfer would win 8 tournaments in a year (Johnny Miller, 1974), and 40 years before any golfer won more events than that (Tiger Woods with 9 in 2000).
| In the summer of 1960, Palmer had already won the Masters and the U.S. Open, and he went to play the British Open for the first time in an attempt to win the 'Grand Slam' (all four majors in one year). What place did he finish in the 1960 British Open? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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2nd. Palmer finished second in this event in his only serious run at the grand slam.
| Entering the final round of the 1960 U.S. Open at Cherry Hills, Palmer found himself seven shots out of the lead. What did he shoot in that final round to win the tournament? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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65. When asked by sportswriter Dan Jenkins before the round what 65 would do, Palmer replied that that would put him in at 280, '... and 280 wins Opens.' He won by 2 shots over a 20 year old amateur, Jack Nicklaus.
| Palmer's first victory in a major championship came in the 1958 Masters, which he won by one stroke. It never would have happened had he not challenged an official's ruling and played a shot both from where the official told him to, and where he believed it should have been played (Palmer's assessment was later deemed correct and saved him two stokes). What did the official rule incorrectly on? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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An embedded ball. Palmer's tee shot on the 12th hole on Sunday embedded into the turf behind the green, and the rules official told him that he was not entitled to relief. Palmer played out the hole and made a double bogey, then redropped and played a provisional ball from the relief area he believed he was entitled to. Tournament officials later said that Palmer was correct and the par he made on the second ball stood.
1955. He won Canada's national championship in his rookie year in 1955.
| After watching Palmer win the U.S. Amateur Championship, what legendary golfer who was watching the final told the press that with his unusual swing and low hooking ball flight, Palmer would never amount to much of a golfer? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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Gene Sarazen. Sarazen would reflect on how wrong he was when he ranked the top twenty golfers of all time in 1984 for Golf Digest. He ranked Palmer fourth.
| Arnold Palmer first became known on a national level for winning the United States Amateur Championship. What year did he win this title? | Arnold Palmer - Golf's 'King'
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1954. He won the 1954 title at the age of 24, and turn pro soon afterward.
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