I. Don't be the slowest player In my casual games at Bay Hill, we get around in under four hours -- and that's in fivesomes. Evaluate your pace of play honestly and often, and if you're consistently the slowest one in your group, you're a slow player, period. Encourage everyone to move quickly enough so you find yourself right behind the group in front several times, both early and late in the round. Remember the

A transformative moment often requires a specific combination of conditions and a single event that acts as a catalyst. Think of Europe in 1914, a mix of ethnic tensions, political rivalries and expansionist conflict. Then, bam, the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand leads to a world war. In the America of 1958, the war-hero president, Dwight Eisenhower, loved golf and conducted business on the course. Economic expansion led to an emerging middle class, suburban

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- A double dose of royalty paraded into Greensboro on Wednesday.   On a rainy afternoon before to the PGA Tour's Wyndham Championship (you may remember it as the Greater Greensboro Open), The King and The King of Stock Car Racing met in the clubhouse of Sedgefield Country Club to kick off the tournament, exchange gifts and shake hands. Those hands have combined to win nearly 300 events, including seven major championships and

From The Pittsburgh GazzetteBy Gerry Dulac, Pittsburgh Post-GazetteArnold Palmer, one of three players from Western Pennsylvania to win a U.S. Open, had some advice for Greensburg native Rocco Mediate in his 18-hole playoff today with Tiger Woods, the world''s No. 1 player.Don''t give up.Palmer, 78, remembers the 1955 U.S. Open when Jack Fleck, a driving-range operator from Bettendorf, Iowa, beat the great Ben Hogan in an 18-hole playoff at the Olympic Club in San Francisco

From The New York TimesThe United States Golf Association dedicated the Arnold Palmer Center for Golf History at the U.S.G.A. Museum here Tuesday. On a picture-perfect afternoon, a living legend officially became an institution.Who better than Palmer to represent golf’s rich history, and what better way to honor a legend than to allow him to enjoy the fruits while he is alive.Keep reading....

From The Detroit Free PressTiger Woods is injured, and the PGA Tour seems to be on hold. This is the Tiger effect: He has created so much interest in his own game that, when he isn''t playing, it''s hard to get excited.This is not so terrible; it''s a price we pay for living in the same era as the most dominant golfer ever. But people often wonder what golf would be like if Tiger had

FromJack Nicklaus ought to be a fixture here, like the Hogan Bridge or Eisenhower''s Tree.The Masters misses him.Sure, he played the Par 3 Contest on Wednesday, but it''s not enough for the winner of a record six green jackets.It''s time for the Golden Bear to join Arnold Palmer for the ceremonial first tee shots to start the tournament next year. The problem goes beyond whether Nicklaus is ready to do so next year. I sense

From ESPN.comBy Ron SirakAUGUSTA, Ga. -- While watching Arnold Palmer''s ceremonial opening tee shot fade into the fog that delayed play for an hour in Thursday''s first round of the Masters, the movie "It''s a Wonderful Life" came to mind. Palmer is the George Bailey of golf.Keep reading....

From PGATour.comAUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) -- Fifty years after Arnold Palmer won the Masters for the first time, he settled over the ball Thursday morning and hit a ceremonial tee shot that went so far he never saw it land.Blame that on the thick fog that settled over Augusta National."Fifty years ago, it went a lot farther," Palmer said. "But the tee was a lot farther up."Keep reading....

From The Golf ChannelToday there are no worries. Today there is no race.“Today,” says Arnold Palmer, “I feel pretty good.”Yes, today is a good day for the 78-year-old golfing icon, one to relish where life’s locomotive has taken him and not worry about where it’s headed.Fifty years ago. That’s what Palmer is being asked to recall on this fine day. The first week in April, 1958, to be exact, back when he won his first

From ESPN.comBy Bob HarigAll these years later, it is necessary to remind yourself that in 1958 Arnold Palmer was not yet Arnold Palmer. Not the Arnie we have come to know as one of golf''s greatest champions and ambassadors. Not the Arnie who carried a sport on its back, helped usher in the television age, inspired the masses.Nope, back then, the son of a greenskeeper from Latrobe, Pa., was a well-regarded pro who had yet

From USGA.orgFar Hills, N.J. – We’re opening the doors to the new Arnold Palmer Center for Golf History in just a couple short months. It’s been three years of intense work, with a tremendous effort put forth by every individual on the project team. We’ll soon have a state-of-the-art facility that will allow us to better care for the USGA’s impressive collections of historical memorabilia. We’ll also have a new research center, new storage areas,

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From The LA TimesArnold Palmer was officially named host for the 2009 Bob Hope Chrysler Classic, the 50th anniversary of the tournament.Palmer, 78, a five-time winner of the event, said in a statement today that it was special to serve as the host of the tournament next January."I consider it a great honor to follow in the footsteps of Bob Hope as host," Palmer said.Keep reading....

From The ScotsmanREWIRING the connection between talent and success, Tiger Woods energised the debate over the possibility, however remote, of achieving a perfect season in golf when he holed a 24-foot putt on the last green at Bay Hill on Sunday to win his fourth event of 2008 in four starts and his seventh consecutive tournament in a row.Backed down to 10/1 to become the first golfer to win the professional Grand Slam – all

From ESPN.comBy Bob HarigORLANDO -- Arnold Palmer knew it was going in, and so did just about all those watching. With every eyeball at the Bay Hill Club fixed on Tiger Woods, a crowd of thousands around the 18th green holding its breath, the tournament on the line, the game''s best player did what you expected him to do.No way he was missing that putt, right?Forget the fact that Woods had not made a putt

From GolfweekBy RAY MCCARTHYAssistant EditorPGA Tour veterans aren’t lining up to serenade rookie Matt Jones with words of wisdom from their experiences playing down the stretch on Sundays.Jones just doesn’t need it.“Actually, he should probably be giving me advice,” 2006 U.S. Open champion Geoff Ogilvy said.Jones, an Australian countryman of Ogilvy’s, has vaulted to 44th on the 2008 PGA Tour money list and is 8-for-8 in cuts made, including this week’s Arnold Palmer Invitational.Keep reading....

From Sign on San DiegoBy Doug FergusonORLANDO, Fla. – Arnold Palmer has seen just about everything in his lifetime of golf, which began as the son of a golf course superintendent and progressed through 62 victories, seven major championships and a career as one of the game''s endearing figures.That changed a couple of months ago. The King never imagined needing a microscope in golf.Keep reading....

From PGATour.comBy Helen Ross, PGATOUR.com Chief of CorrespondentsORLANDO, Fla. -- One was sans-a-belt and polyester. He was a man''s man in an era where that meant having a couple of beers and a smoke in the 19th hole after the final putt dropped.The other man''s tastes run to fist-pumps, not hitched-up trousers, and he always wears red on Sunday. Those form-fitting shirts reveal a ripped body that never strays far from the workout room, too.Arnold

From ESPN.comBy Bob HarigORLANDO -- If the details can be worked out, Arnold Palmer will become the celebrity host of the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic in 2009 to celebrate the event''s 50th year.Palmer won the first tournament in 1960 and won the last of his 62 PGA Tour titles there in 1973. Three of the four courses used in the rotation for the tournament staged in Palm Desert, Calif., were designed by Palmer''s company. This

From YahooTiger Woods could become the first player to win a calendar grand slam of all four majors, said one of the game''s other greats Arnold Palmer.Palmer, who won two of the four events in a season three times in the early 1960s, said the world number one could do what he and others such as Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player never managed.Keep reading....  

From PGATour.comBy John MaginnesORLANDO, Fla. -- I wonder if Tiger felt a twinge of guilt when he passed the King on the all-time career wins list with his victory at the World Golf Championships-Accenture Match Play Championship.I seriously doubt it. Like all of us, though, Tiger reveres golf history and its great legends. The relationships he has forged with the two living legends of the game, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, are based on a

From The Rocky Mountain NewsORLANDO, Fla. -- John Daly woke up Wednesday morning to read that swing coach Butch Harmon fired him. Then he got a phone call when he was at the entrance to Bay Hill letting him know he had been kicked out of the Arnold Palmer Invitational for missing the pro-am."Hasn''t been a good day," Daly told The Associated Press. "This is the last thing I needed in my life. I feel

From Golf.comORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Ernie Els has had some peculiar travel habits this year. He flew 10 hours from London to Arizona to play in the Accenture Match Play Championship after saying he would not compete, then he decided against a 15-minute drive down Apopka-Vineland Road to play in the Arnold Palmer Invitational.Els withdrew from Bay Hill on Monday, and word was the tournament host was not pleased."As far as I''m concerned, Arnold Palmer

From The Orlando SentinelThe Bay Hill Club and Lodge finally can breathe a sigh of relief: Tiger Woods officially committed to the Arnold Palmer Invitational on Thursday as he looks to win his fifth consecutive PGA Tour event.Fred Couples and Davis Love III also are last-minute additions to a field that already included Phil Mickelson, John Daly, Ernie Els Vijay Singh, Jim Furyk and Sergio Garcia.The commitment deadline is 5 p.m. Friday. The tournament kicks