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Happy 80th Birthday Mr. Arnold Palmer!

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alf174 Great Member

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A few minutes early but:

To the King, I hope you are around for many more. Thank you for everything you've given the game of golf.

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." Woody Allen
My regular pasture.


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really thought there'd be more excitement in this thread :x grats arnie

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alf174 Great Member

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A living legend, he is.

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." Woody Allen
My regular pasture.


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My favorite golfer of all time.Arnie is the man!!

I watched the Arnie tribute on the golf channel the other day. Exellent show. I'm sure they will be running it all week so if you haven't seen it you have to check it out.

Happy 80th Arnie!!

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alf174 Great Member

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Quite the amazing career he continues to have.

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." Woody Allen
My regular pasture.


alf174 Great Member

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really thought there'd be more excitement in this thread :x grats arnie

me too, i guess because the younger players did not have much exposure to him.

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." Woody Allen
My regular pasture.


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He seems like a genuinely good person. A person who is jumbled by his accomplishments and grateful for the people who adore him. He has always had a sense that giving back is the right thing to do and he has done that. He seems like the kind of person who didn't take things for granted and feels a social responsibility to help others in need. From all account, Arnold Palmer is a great human being and that's about as great an accomplishment a person could ever have.

Everyone loves him for a reason.

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One of the Greats. A man who helped build golf into the game it is today.

His charm and good looks gave the game a certain panache. He is my favorite all-time golfer.

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alf174 Great Member

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A.P. with the other great of their era, J.N.

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." Woody Allen
My regular pasture.


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This is a little late but HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the King (even though he does NOT like that title)!! I have had two good experiences with Arnie:

1. I saw him at a Skins Game in Syracuse around 2004, with Peter Jacobsen, Sally Dee (she is from Syracuse and used to play on the LPGA Tour), and one other player. When the other three arrived at the 10th tee, they had to wait, and wait, and wait for Arnie to get there. Arnie was signing autographs for many people as he walked from the 9th green. Peter joked about it, and said, "Well, he is the King, and he is entitled to be late and hold all of us up. But, ladies and gentlemen, he is the King because he does take time to sign autographs for you." Jacobsen has always expressed admiration for Arnie.

2. In September of 2006, Arnie played in a Skins Game at the Turning Stone Resort with John Daly, Natalie Gulbis, and Country star Kix Brooks. Arnie played from the back tees with Big John, while the other two played the whites. They put on a great show. At the end, I was involved in a conversation with Arnie and Ray Halbritter, the Representative of the Oneida Nation. I cannot disclose the details, but let me say this: Arnie is definitely a real businessman. No wonder he still receives the endorsement contracts, agreements to design golf courses, etc. that he does secure. On the course, his mind is on golf and the fans, but when he walks off the 18th green, his mind is usually focused on business.

Mitch Pezdek------Dash Aficionado and Legend in My Own Mind


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Happy Birthday Arnie...

And happy rebirth day to Seve Ballesteros, who returns after brain cancer surgery to say he will play in the 2010 British Open! Something tells me Arnie is very proud of him.

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