Arnold Palmer Autograph
date: label: date made
content: 1960
name: label: depicted (sitter); signer
content: Palmer, Arnold
notes: label: Description
content: Autograph of golfer Arnold Palmer, affixed to photographic image.
label: Description
content: Arnold Palmer (1929-2016) revolutionized the sport of professional golf. Beloved for an aggressive style and everyday origins, the charismatic son of a former Pennsylvania country club greenskeeper began his assault on golf's record books just as televised sports were emerging as a national sensation.
label: Description
content: A state champion in high school, Palmer played collegiately at Wake Forest University (1947-1951) and served in the U.S. Coast Guard (1951-1954,) winning two NCAA individual championships and the US Amateur Championship before joining the Professional Golf Association (PGA) in 1955.
label: Description
content: Over the following decades Palmer won 62 PGA events, 92 in total. Highlights included a 1960 U.S. Open victory and the 1961 and 1962 (British) Opens, where he was considered a groundbreaker for playing as an American. Palmer is perhaps best remembered for winning The Masters four times, 1958, 1960, 1962 and 1964.
label: Description
content: With a following of devoted fans known as <i>Arnie's Army</i> Palmer was one of the most marketable athletes of his generation. Inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2004 and a Congressional Gold Medal in 2009. Widely credited with popularizing the sport of golf in the United States, Palmer is seen as one of America's most influential sportsmen.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Golf
label: level of sport
content: Professional
label: Subject
content: Autographs
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Edwin A. Rowlands
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0347.19.01
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0347.19.01
label: accession number
content: 1983.0347
objectType: label: Object Name
content: autograph
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: adhesive (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 25.5 cm x 18.1 cm; 10 1/16 in x 7 1/8 in