Word: palmers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...army met the troops at high noon last Thursday. As Arnold Palmer walked toward the 10th tee in the first round of the Bay Hill Invitational, his still impressive gallery blended in with the huge horde following Tiger Woods, who was about to tee off on the first hole. As you might expect when once and future kings collide, many of the old Army loyalists deserted the 67-year-old Palmer in favor of the 21-year-old Woods, and, indeed, the phenom rewarded his faithful with a four-under-par 68, one shot off the lead. Palmer, meanwhile, struggled...
...have become routine for Woods. Those who stayed with Palmer witnessed something far more singular. His round came just nine weeks after he underwent surgery for prostate cancer, and Arnie's brush with mortality served to remind people of his immortality. As he walked up the 18th fairway, the eyes in the gallery were as misty, and the applause as thunderous, as the weather in Orlando, Florida, last week. "I felt wonderful," said Palmer. "I feel very lucky just to be out there playing. That's the important thing about it. I even made [38-year-old playing partner] Fulton...
Much more than coincidence links Palmer and Woods. They both live in the Orlando area, and, thanks to Mark McCormack's International Management Group, they are both richer than Croesus and maybe even Jack Nicklaus. They play with the same swashbuckling style. Woods was all over the course on Thursday, but as he said, "I got the ball in the hole somehow." Palmer's round came apart after he tried to hit the ninth green in two from a bad lie and pulled the ball out of bounds, leading to a triple bogey. "If I play in a tournament," says...
...there have been four popular bookmarks: Francis Ouimet, the 20-year-old amateur who defeated British greats Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in a playoff for the 1913 U.S. Open in Brookline, Massachusetts; Bobby Jones, whose 1930 Grand Slam earned him a ticker-tape parade in New York City; Palmer, who teamed with television to bring golf millions of new fans; and Woods, whose galleries are not only larger than anyone else's but considerably younger and more variegated...
...electric companies can match the Texas-size swagger of Enron, which vows to overpower its stodgy utility rivals. "What other industry in America still sends agents into your home to read meters just as they did in 1935?" asks Enron spokesman Mark Palmer. Enron is putting its money where its boasts are: gearing up for wireless metering and building a billing center near Columbus, Ohio, with the capacity to produce statements for no fewer than--count 'em--30 million customers...