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Arnold Palmer takes WorldGolf.com blogger's advice, won't play Senior PGA Championship

Thursday May 18, 2006 | 06:40:24 121 words, 1223 views
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Arnold Palmer has taken retired WorldGolf.com blogger “Bangkok Al” Katz’s advice to heart and bagged out of this year’s Senior PGA Championship. What’s more, according to this story, he’s “kind of put all his golf on hold.”

In his “All the world’s a stage, and it’s time for Arnold Palmer to exit” blog entry, Al wrote, “We don’t need to recount what Palmer has meant to the game of golf. But watching him swing a golf club carries the whiff of tragedy now.”

And in his follow-up entry, “Stop televising Arnold Palmer, part 2″, Al wrote: “Let’s celebrate what [Arnold Palmer] was by dropping the curtain on the sad clown act he’s got now.”

Fans of the King were not amused.

Comments:

Comment from: Joe Soprano [Visitor] · http://www.classicgolfimages.com
Hey Al,

Regarding your comment that Arnold Palmer as a "sad clown". How wrong can any one person be. Arnold Palmer is an Icon. What Mr. Palmer has meant to the game of golf has long be documented. What he has meant to the human race is even more important. The hospital that bears his name in Orlando is one of the finest of its kind in the US. For those of us who have had the opportunity to get to know & spend any time with this gentle & humble man, it has been wonderful. His golf career was mostly over by the time I got involved in Golf, but after meeting him and seeing the way he treats people, I consider myself a card carrying member of largest NON-Military army. "Arnie's Army"
Permalink 2006-05-19 @ 09:33
Comment from: Steve Hosid [Visitor]
Golf is a lifetime sport and for as long as he decides to pull the next club from his bag Arnold Palmer embodies all that is right with Golf. From its competitive values to its contributions to communities, no other sport or athletes give back as much to the game and communities where its played. Arnold Palmer has passed that on to the young players of today.
The real fans, those that support the events with their dollars are the determining factor and Arnie draws the crowds wherever he plays...sometimes poking fun at himself along the way. Walk behind the crowds as I do in covering events and you'll hear a grandfather telling their grandchildren all about Arnold Palmer and it's not just references to past accomplishments. America took Arnie into is heart back in the sixties and we'r not ready to let him go.

Steve Hosid -Instruction editor PGA TOUR Partners..and a Proud member of Arnold Plamer's Bay Hill club in Orlando
Permalink 2006-05-19 @ 09:48
Comment from: arnold palmer advertising on golf channel [Visitor]
please someone change those ads on the golf channel!!
Permalink 2006-05-19 @ 12:42
Comment from: laura [Visitor]
Its better late than never. Good work Katz, atlast you made him realise.
Permalink 2006-05-24 @ 05:03

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