Arnold Palmer

Arnold Daniel Palmer (September 10, 1929 – September 25, 2016) was an American professional golfer who won 62 PGA titles from 1955 to 1973. In 1974 he was one of the inaugural inductees into the World Golf Hall of Fame.

Quotes

Maybe you'll fail most of the time, but until you've dared to try and have brought off an impossible shot from the rough or from the water, or have salvaged a hole by laying a monster of a 2-iron shot stiff against the pin, you will have missed golf's greatest playing thrill.
- My Game and Yours. 1965. p. 83.

I've always believed the British Open is one of the greatest championships in the world. As a kid I read about Bob Jones and Walter Hagen and other Americans who had won the British Open (or Open Championship, as they call it in Britain), and I remember the hero's welcome Ben Hogan received after returning home with the Claret Jug in 1953.
- Arnold Palmer: Memories, Stories, and Memorabilia from a Life on and Off the Course. Harry N. Abrams. 2004. p. 52. ISBN 1584793309.

I've made 20 aces in my lifetime, which doesn't sound like very many when you consider I've played golf since I was four years old, but the odds of making a hole-in-one are around 2,500-to-1 for a professional (and 25,000-to-1 for an amateur).
- A Life Well Played: My Stories. St. Martin's Publishing Group. 2016. p. 19. ISBN 1250085950.

... As Woods would do more than 30 years later, Palmer, a son of a golf pro at his hometown Latrobe Country Club, almost single-handedly stimulated TV coverage of golf, widening the game's popularity among a postwar generation of World War II veterans enjoying economic boom times and a sprawling green suburbia.
- Dave Anderson, (September 26, 2016)"Arnold Palmer Dies at 87; Face of Golf". The New York Times.