Arnold Palmer own MacGregor Tommy Armour IMG 5 putter given to Tony Jacklin 1967 For Sale

Arnold Palmer\'s own Magregor \'Tommy Armour IMG 5 Ironmaster\' blade putter given to Tony Jacklin in 1967On a visit with Arnie, he picked up serveral of Arnies putters took a fancy to this one and kept it. It is noted the Arnie played with putters on this style, could it be a putter he used to win tournament golf matches? Only research will discover this. It has some lead weight to the back, looking at the images it has seen many golf links sadly not by Tony Jacklin, like all his putters he never re-discovered his putting touch and were soon discarded to his garage where it has remained for 40 years. He has put on the most awful new style grip! Tony Jacklin (born July 7, 1944 in Scunthorpe England) was the most successful British player of his generation. He was also the most successful European Ryder Cup captain ever, having been the Captain on four occasions, a record. Tony won two majors. In 1969, he became the first British player to win The Open Championship for 18 years. The following season he won the U.S. Open. It was the first victory by a British player in that tournament since 1920, and as of 2008, it remains the only one by any European in the post-World War II era. Tony won eight events on the European Tour between its first season in 1972 and 1982. He also won tournaments in Europe pre the European Tour era and in the United States, South America, South Africa and Australasia. Tony Jacklin may be best remembered for his involvement in the Ryder Cup and bringing it back from obscurity. He was a playing member of the \'Great Britain and Ireland\' team in 1967, 1969, 1971, 1973, 1975 and 1977, and of the first European team in 1979. Except for a tie in 1969 in which Jack Nicklaus famously conceded a putt to tie the game and the match. As the non-playing captain of Europe in four consecutive Ryder Cups from 1983 to 1989, he had a 2.5 - 1.5 winning record, captaining his men to their first victory for 28 years in 1985, and to their first ever victory in the United States in 1987. Tony was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2002. He retired from tournament golf in 2004 at the age of sixty, having won a number of events at senior level.
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Arnold Palmer is many things to many people...world famous golf immortal and sportsman, highly-successful business executive, prominent advertising spokesman, skilled aviator, talented golf course designer and consultant, devoted husband, father and grandfather and a man with a down-to-earth common touch that has made him one of the most popular and accessible public figures in history.His popularity and success have grown with the tremendous golf boom in this latter half of the century to heights few ever anticipated. Certainly each contributed to the other, a fact given recognition when he was named \"Athlete of the Decade\" for the 1960s in a national Associated Press poll. Before, during and after that great decade, the famous golfer amassed 92 championships in professional competition of national or international stature by the-end of 1993. Sixty-one of the victories came on the U.S. PGA Tour, starting with the 1955 Canadian Open.Beside the magnificent performance record, his magnetic personality and unfailing sense of kindness and thoughtfulness to everybody with whom he comes in contact have endeared him to millions throughout the world and led to the informal formation of the largest non-uniformed \"military\" organization in existence - Arnie\'s Army. Seven of his victories came in what the golfing world considers the four major professional championships. He won the Masters Tournament four times, in 1958, 1960, 1962 and 1964; the U.S. Open in spectacular fashion in 1960 at Cherry Hills Country Club in Denver and the British Open in 1961 and 1962. He came from seven strokes off the pace in the final round in that U.S. Open win and has finished second in four other Opens since then. Among the majors, only the PGA Championship has eluded him. He has finished second in the PGA three times.Arnold PalmerArnie\'s springboard to professional fame and fortune was his victory in the U.S. Amateur Championship in 1954. He turned professional a few months later. His hottest period was a four-year stretch from 1960 to 1963 when he landed 29 of his titles and collected almost $400,000 at a time when the purses were minute by today\'s standards. He was the leading money-winner in three of those years and twice represented the U.S. in the prestigious Ryder Cup Match, serving in 1963 as the victorious captain.It was also during this period that his rapidly-growing business interests got their start, through the impetus of Palmer himself and with the guidance and efforts of his business manager, Mark McCormack, and his wide-ranging organization. Arnold is president of Arnold Palmer Enterprises, a multi-division structure encompassing much of his global commercial activity that is centered in Cleveland. He has been involved in automobile and aviation service firms in his Latrobe (PA) hometown, Charlotte NC, and elsewhere around the country for many years.Arnold is president and sole owner (since 1971) of Latrobe Country Club and president and principal owner of the Bay Hill Club and Lodge, Orlando, FL, which he and a group of associates acquired on lease in 1970. Bay Hill hosts the annual Nestle Invitational on the PGA Tour. Arnold also is tournament professional and member of the Board of Directors of Laurel Valley Golf Club, Ligonier, PA, with which he has been affiliated since its founding in the late 1950s.Arnold PalmerHe is a major stockholder and member of the Board of Directors of ProGroup, Inc., Ooltewah, TN, (Chattanooga area), a sporting goods company which manufactures and markets various leisure-industry products focused on golf, including equipment bearing the Palmer name and design. Another important facet of his activities involves golf course design, management and teaching in businesses operating as Palmer Course Design Company, in which he is associated with Edwin B. Seay, past president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects; Arnold Palmer Golf Management Company, and the Arnold Palmer Golf Academy. Since the mid-1960s, Palmer has put his stamp on some 200 new courses throughout the nation and world. His modest business empire and tournament play keep Palmer on the move much of the year, most of the travel in his Cessna Citation VII jet aircraft with Arnold at the controls when aboard.Palmer was born on September 10, 1929, in Latrobe, a small industrial town in Western Pennsylvania at the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains some 50 miles east of Pittsburgh. He still spends the warm months of the year there, but makes his winter home in the Orlando area. He has numerous active and honorary memberships in clubs throughout the world, including famed St. Andrews in Scotland and prominent Oakmont in Pittsburgh.The golfing great has been the recipient of countless honors, the symbolic plaques, trophies and citations scattered throughout his personal, club and business worlds. He has received virtually every national award in golf and after his great 1960 season both the Hickok Athlete of the Year and Sports Illustrated\'s Sportsman of the Year trophies. He is a charter member of the World Golf Hall of Fame and a member of the American Golf Hall of Fame at Foxburg, PA, and the PGA Hall of Fame in Florida. He is chairman of the USGA Members Program and served as Honorary National Chairman of the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation for 20 years. He played a major role in the fund-raising drive that led to the creation of the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Women in Orlando in the 1980s. A long-time member of the Board of Directors of Latrobe Area Hospital, he established a major annual fund-raising golf event for that institution in 1992.Arnold PalmerThe saga of Arnold Palmer began when he was four years old, swinging his first set of golf clubs, cut down by his father, Milfred J. (Deacon) Palmer, who worked at Latrobe Country Club from 1921 until his death in 1976, much of that time as both golf professional and course superintendent. Before long, Arnie was playing well enough to beat the older caddies at the club. He began caddying himself when he was 11 and worked at virtually every job at the club in the ensuing years.The strongly-built young man concentrated on golf in high school and soon was dominating the game in Western Pennsylvania. He won his first of five West Penn Amateur Championships when he was 17, competed successfully in national junior events and went to Wake Forest University (then College), where he became No. 1 man on the golf team and one of the leading collegiate players of that time. Deeply affected by the death in an auto accident of his close friend and classmate, Bud Worsham, younger brother of 1947 U.S. Open Champion Lew Worsham, Arnold withdrew from college during his senior year and began a three-year hitch in the Coast Guard. His interest in golf rekindled while he was stationed in Cleveland. He was working there as a salesman and playing amateur golf after his discharge from the service and brief return to Wake Forest when he won the U.S. Amateur in 1954 following his second straight victory in the Ohio Amateur earlier that summer.It was during this period that he met Winifred Walzer at a tournament in Eastern Pennsylvania. They were married shortly after he turned professional in the fall of 1954 and Winnie traveled with him when he joined the pro tour in early 1955. The Palmers have two daughters - Peggy Palmer Wears, of Durham, NC, and Amy Palmer Saunders, of Windermere, FL; four granddaughters, Emily (1127/81), Katherine Anne (912182), Anne Palmer (9/14184) Saunders and Nicola Wears and a grandson, Samuel Palmer Saunders (7130187). Arnold\'s brother, Jerry, who succeeded their father as course superintendent at Latrobe CC, and sisters, Mrs. Lois Jean Tilley and Sandra Sarady, live in the Latrobe area. Jerry is now general manager of Latrobe CC and all Palmer properties there. Their mother, Dons, passed away in 1979 after a long, brave battle against crippling arthritis.ACADEMIC HONORSHonorary Doctor of Laws, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NCHonorary Doctor of Humanities, Thiel College, Greenville, PAHonorary Doctor of Laws, National College of Education, Evanston, ILHonorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Florida Southern College, Lakeland, FLAWARDSGolfCharter member, World Golf Hall of Fame, Pinehurst, NC - 1974American Golf Hall of Fame, Foxburg, PAPGA Hall of Fame, Palm Beach Gardens, FL - 1980All-American Collegiate Golf Hall of Fame, Man of Year - 1984Ohio Golf Hall of Fame - 1992Phoenix Open Hall of FameBob Jones Award, U.S. Golf Association - 1971Walter Hagen Award, International panel of selectorsWilliam D. Richardson Award, Golf Writers Assn. of America - 1969Charles Bartlett Award, Golf Writers Assn. of America - 1976Herb Graffis Award, National Golf Foundation - 1978Gold Tee Award, Metropolitan (NY) Golf Writers Assn. - 1965Golf Digest \"Man of Silver Era\" - 1975Old Tom Morris Award, Golf Course Supt. Assn. of America - 1983Golfer of Century, New York Athletic ClubCommemorative Honoree, 1987 Golf Digest Commemorative Seniors TournamentGolfer of Decade (1958-67), Centennial of Golf, Golf Mag. - 1989American Senior Golf Association National Award - 1989Chicago District Golf Assn. Distinguished Service Award - 1989Ambassador of Golf Award, World Series of Golf - 1991Bing Crosby Award, Metropolitan Golf Writers Assn. - 1992Memorial Honoree, Memorial Tournament - 1993GeneralAssociated Press Athlete of Decade - 1960-69Hickok Athlete of Year - 1960Sports Illustrated Sportsman of Year - 1960Western Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County,Cambria County, North Carolina, Florida Sports Halls of FameWake Forest Hall of FameArthur J. Rooney Award, Catholic Youth Assn., Pittsburgh PADapper Dan Man of Year, Pittsburgh, PA - 1960Lowman Humanitarian Award, Los Angeles, CADistinguished Pennsylvanian - 1980Partner in Science Award, March of Dimes Birth Defects FoundationTheodore Roosevelt Award, National Collegiate Athletic AssociationBusiness Leaders Award, Northwood InstituteNational High School Sports Hall of FameGold Medal, Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters - 1988Sports Appreciation Trophy, Atlanta AC CC, Atlanta, GA - 1990Van Patrick Career Achievement Award, Dearborn, MI - 1990Eagle on World Award, Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New York - 1990Pathfinder Award, Youthlinks Indiana - 1992Outstanding American Award, Los Angeles Philanthropic Foundation- 1992National Sports Award, Washington, D.C. - 1993Sports Legends Award, Jr. Diabetes Foundation, Pittsburgh - 1993Humanitarian Award, Variety Club International - 1993\"Good Guy\" Award, American Legion National Commanders - 1993GOLF BOOKS AND VIDEOSArnold Palmer\'s Golf Book, 1961Portrait of Professional Golfer, 1964My Game and Yours, 1965 revised 1983Situation Golf, 1970Go For Broke, 1973Arnold Palmer\'s Best 54 Holes of Golf, 1977Arnold Palmer\'s Complete Book of Putting, 1986Play Great Golf, 1987-9 (book, videos)The Arnold Palmer Story, 1991 (video)
On July 17, 1969, Tony Jacklin stood on the 18th tee at Royal Lytham & St Annes in the last round of the Open Championship. Jacklin, who had turned 25 ten days earlier, wore a shrieking pair of trousers, a V-neck sweater over a roll neck shirt and a slight frown. He was leading the Open and he was about to hit the most important stroke of his young life.
The eyes of many golfers in the United Kingdom and a good few around the world were watching him on BBC television and in colour for the first time. With his trusted driver, he took a practice swing and one last look down the narrowing fairway, noting the bunkers on either side. There are many easier driving holes than the 18th at Lytham and not many that are more difficult.
“It is one of the hardest in golf because of the positioning of the bunkers,” Jacklin said. “There was one bunker across the fairway and if you took a 1-iron for accuracy you couldn’t clear that bunker. There were no two ways about it. You had to take a driver and it required the perfect shot. I remember Eric Brown taking a six there to lose the Open. I remember looking down the fairway and saying to myself: You’ve done this a thousand times. You can do it.
I thought to myself: ‘Wide and smooth, wide and smooth.’ Those were my swing thoughts and as I’m thinking it, I’m doing it. That is what is known as being in the moment. I was where I needed to be. I wasn’t ahead of myself.”
Jacklin took another practice swing and launched the ball into the air. It flew down the fairway to finish exactly where he had wanted it to. “Great! I thought to myself. Great!” In the television commentary box Henry Longhurst watched it take off, and said with true Longhurstian appropriateness and after a Longhurstian pause: “Oh! What a corker!”
Having reached his drive, Jacklin took only a moment or two to decide that he would not use his 8- iron for his second shot. Instead he would play an easy 7. His reasoning was that he had spent some time in the previous two winters hitting thousands and thousands of 7-iron shots as he strove to make his legs more dynamic. He was confident now that he could reproduce a good smooth swing, driving his legs powerfully, and he did just that, his ball ending four yards from the flagstick. “I don’t think people are aware of how the legs are meant to work” Jacklin said. “Most people do the reverse. They start the downswing with the arms and the legs never get engaged. I knew what I was doing [that day at Lytham].”
A few minutes later, and having had one shoe torn off in the rush of spectators to get to the green, he watched Bob Charles hole for a parfour before holing his for a similar four. He walked off the green, his right arm raised in salute at the applause that was cascading on him, the first British Open champion since Max Faulkner in 1951. A new national hero had been born.
Jacklin pocketed a cheque for £4,250. It was the start of a momentous run of form for Jacklin. Later that year he was the last man out for Great Britain & Ireland against the US in the Ryder Cup and he and Jack Nicklaus had a dingdong singles match that ended when Nicklaus conceded Jacklin’s two-foot putt for a half on the 18th hole at Royal Birkdale. This meant a tied match, 16-16. Nicklaus’s generous concession, while not being welcomed by Sam Snead, the US captain, received huge approbation around the world for being an act of real sportsmanship. Nearly 40 years later, Jacklin and Nicklaus combined to design a golf course near Bradenton in Florida called The Concession.
Jacklin found himself flying back and forth across the Atlantic as he tried to continue his career in the US while at the same time making himself available as the Open champion for tournaments on this side of the Atlantic. “The cabbies in London used to shout out when they saw me: ‘Hello, Tone. Not so good as last week.’ They were following my progress. They had a cabbies’ golf society.” Early in 1970 he was awarded the OBE, appeared on This is Your Life and became a regular contender, if not winner, in tournaments in the US.
Jacklin performed so well because he had an almost unbreakable confidence. “When I was 17 or 18 I said I wanted to be the best player in the world. It was simple. I am a great believe that if you haven’t put it in then when you want to summon it up, it won’t be there. You don’t know what to do. This [pointing to his head] is the greatest computer the world has ever seen. I knew that if I was to be the best in the world I was going to have to beat Arnold [Palmer], [Jack] Nicklaus and win majors. I had to learn to beat these guys and everything I did was to that end.”
No self doubts then, Tony? “Not really. Self doubt is every sportsman’s enemy but I was where I wanted to be. I certainly didn’t back off. I made mistakes. I didn’t win everything. I used to go home and analyse my performances. I was always thinking about what I needed to do better and so I took care of it.
I was a pro and that’s what pros do. After every round you have to figure out what you felt like when you were doing this and whether that was right or wrong. It is a process. This is an impossible game, golf. I wasn’t trying to do anything that was beyond my capabilities. I would go back to the words that my father used to say. He was a simple chap, my father. And a great pal. He used to say when I was younger: “Tone, they’ve got two arms, two legs, and a head on their shoulders, just like you.” That might be one of the world’s greatest oversimplifications but it\'s true. That is all anyone has whether it is Bobby Jones, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus or whoever.”
In June 1970, the reigning Open champion entered the US Open at Hazeltine National golf club in Chaska, Minnesota, where he started with a birdie three and went on strongly from there. Dave Hill, the American pro, may have said all that Hazeltine needed was “80 acres of corn and some cows” and Lee Trevino may have said that “If anyone shoots 281 [seven under par] on this course then the Pope is a possum” but to Jacklin it was pure paradise. The weather for the first round was cold and windy.
Most players hated it but Jacklin loved it. It reminded him of the conditions he had experienced while growing up in England. Punching his irons low through the wind and helped by sinking two 40-foot putts and holing out from a bunker, Jacklin went round in 71. He was the only player under par. Nearly half the field recorded 80 or worse. Some chap called Nicklaus took 81. What happened to him?
“Most Americans don’t know how to play in a wind,” Jacklin said later. “They are not conditioned to it. I was. I might take any club at all from 160 yards – even a 2-iron. I practised that sort of thing all the time.”
Jacklin led by two strokes after 18 holes, three strokes at halfway, four strokes after three rounds and seven after four, the widest margin of victory for nearly 50 years. His winning score was 281, although the Pope is not a possum.
Jacklin placed the winner’s cheque of $30,000 in a pocket of his trousers and forgot it when he sent the trousers to be dry-cleaned. The next day he received a pair of neatly pressed trousers and a washed and laundered cheque on which the writing had faded. “We had to get the USGA [United States Golf Association] to write me out another,” Jacklin said with a smile.
Three British journalists were in attendance at Chaska: Henry Longhurst who, in addition to writing for the Sunday Times, was commentating for US television; Ben Wright of the Financial Times; and Leonard Crawley of the Daily Telegraph.
Crawley, a formidable figure with a florid face and a bushy moustache, often dressed in tweedy plus-fours. To the Americans, he was the epitome of a British upper-class eccentric. In the aftermath of Jacklin’s victory, Crawley tugged on his moustache and sat down in front of his typewriter to begin composing his report. He looked around the press room and said: “I have the whole of England at my feet, you know.”
So had Jacklin. For a few years thereafter his grinning face, with his teeth as regular and gleaming as a newly painted picket fence, peered out from advertisements. He commanded £3,000 for a day’s clinic, £2,000 in appearance money. Named the Lincolnshire poacher, he made a record. He had plenty to sing about. The former steam-fitter’s apprentice was a millionaire. He bought himself a lavender coloured Jensen Interceptor to go with the OBE he had been awarded for winning the Open. As football managers are wont to say, “the boy had done good.”
Winning two major championships in 11 months set Jacklin’s stock soaring. The most successful British golfer since Henry Cotton 30 years earlier, he had become as popular as a pop star. As a world-class golfer, he was the rock on which the foundations of the European Tour were laid, first by John Jacobs and later continued by Ken Schofield and George O’Grady. It all went back to that drive at Lytham that July day in 1969. If Jacklin hadn’t hit a corker, he might not have gone on to win and Jacobs would not have been able to use him at the start of the European Tour. But he did hit a corker. How good was it?
It was one to set alongside Gene Sarazen’s shot that was heard around the world when he holed his second shot on the par-five 15th at Augusta in 1935; one to compare with Bubba Watson’s miraculous recovery from deep in the trees to win the 2012 Masters; and with Sandy Lyle’s clean-as-a-whistle bunker shot on the 18th at Augusta National to set up victory in the 1988 Masters. Also with Seve Ballesteros’s bunker shot with a 3- wood to grab a half in his singles at the 1983 Ryder Cup. And remember Nick Faldo hit a 95-yard wedge shot followed by a five-foot putt that laid the foundations for European victory in the 1995 Ryder Cup at Oak Hill. But it is no exaggeration to say that Jacklin’s drive was the shot that did more than any other to help found the modern European Tour.
But now, looking back on those heady days 40 years ago, Jacklin admits he worked too hard at money-making ventures in the aftermath of these victories and his golf suffered. He remained a force in world golf only until 1972, when his chances of winning that Open were ended by a fluke chip-in on the 71st hole by Lee Trevino. That shot not only ended Jacklin’s tilt at victory in that Open at Muirfield but, he now admits, it ended his interest in golf.
“There is a burden of responsibility in being a champion,” Jacklin said. “I was the only one around at the time. I tried to be all thing to all men. It took time for me to realise I couldn’t be.
Plus IMG [the International Management Group, his managers] were great at coming up with financial deals and leaving it to you to say no. I wanted someone to tell me to say no to some of them. I never got that and the result was I did far too much. In the end I ran out of try.
Mark McCormack [IMG’s founder] was an opportunist. It was all about him. He was building his empire, his management business. I was a pawn in the game. He’d got Palmer, he\'d got Nicklaus. He had conquered America and when I won, above all else he wanted me in Britain to spearhead his British campaign and help get British clients. He used to say to me: ‘You’ve got to be in Europe, my boy’.”
Jacklin has very little good to say about McCormack. He advised him to invest in Lloyds and that ended badly. “Guys in the City barricaded themselves against their losses,” Jacklin said. “It was mugs like Henry Cooper and me who suffered.”
As Jacklin’s star waned, others came along to take over. Peter Oosterhuis, another Englishman, played full-time on the US tour and won one event. Then came Europe’s Big Five of Severiano Ballesteros from Spain, Bernhard Langer from Germany, Nick Faldo, Sandy Lyle and Ian Woosnam from the United Kingdom, who were all born between April 1957 (Ballesteros) and March 1958 (Woosnam). Less than a decade later came José Maria Olazábal, who was born in February 1966. They all followed the path blazed by Jacklin, all winning major championships in the US and all but Woosnam, Langer and Olazábal in Britain as well.
But Jacklin lead the way. He was the pathfinder, the first Briton to win two major championship in 11 months, the first man to take on the Americans, the first Briton to believe in himself in the US since The Great Triumvirate at the turn of the previous century. In truth, he was the right man in the right place at the right time. European golf owes a huge debt to Jacklin, not for what he did by leading the Ryder Cup team in the 1980s but for what he did in those golden months starting in July 1969 and ending in June 1970. For those 11 months he held the world of golf in his hands.