Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tennis vs. B.C. (at Palmer Dixon...
...future matches--primarily the April 12th showdown with leaguerival Columbia at the Palmer-Dixon facility across the river--it is vital that the team gets off to a good start in the doubles, as in four out of the five matches on this California trip the winner of the doubles point proceeded to capture the entire contest...
...Palmer and Woods have been well aware of each other for years, but the first time they really sat down was in 1994, when Woods was at Stanford University. Palmer was in Napa, California, for a senior tournament, and he invited Woods to lunch. The meal became something of a cause celebre when it was revealed that the millionaire had picked up the tab for the student. Stanford, fearing the NCAA would strip its star golfer of his amateur status, made Woods send Palmer a check for his half of the tab: $25. Story has it that Palmer kept...
...inspiring victory at the Mercedes Championships and a rare show of petulance after an inconsiderate photographer disturbed his concentration. The snit was perfectly understandable given his age and the demands newly placed on him--demands that can't be kept behind gallery ropes, demands that not even Palmer has faced. Woods, after all, carries the hope of both African and Asian Americans, not to mention Nike, and he must deal with much more media than Palmer ever did. And those demands will only increase as his tour proceeds back through golf history, from Palmer's Bay Hill to the Masters...
...part, Woods is well aware of the example Palmer has set for him. "Arnold has many qualities I look up to, especially the graciousness that comes from the gentleman he is." Hot as he is, Woods would also do well to display the warmth that Palmer often shows his public. When someone pointed out to him on the first tee Thursday that the price tag on his hat was still attached, a la Minnie Pearl, Palmer responded, "That's because I'm going to turn it back in when I finish...