Arnold Palmer

"Maybe you'll fail most of the time, but until you've dared to try and have brought off an impossible shot from the or from the , or have salvaged a hole by laying a monster of a shot stiff against the pin, you will have missed golf's greatest playing thrill."

"I've always believed the is one of the greatest championships in the world. As a kid I read about and 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 received after returning home with the in 1953."

"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)."

"... As would do more than 30 years later, Palmer, a son of a golf pro at his hometown , almost single-handedly stimulated TV coverage of golf, widening the game's popularity among a ."