Welcome to the clubhouse with Shane Bacon.

I'm your host, Shane Bacon, a melancholy Monday here after news of the passing of Arnold Palmer.

Mr. Palmer was unlike anyone else that's ever touched a seven iron.

He changed the sport of golf for the better in his own way, making the British Open popular to American fans,

bringing us a 24-hour network dedicated solely to the sport of golf, playing the game

his own way, a unique way that translated to seven major championships and 62 PGA Tour wins.

Arnie wasn't just cool. He was the coolest. He was a man's man, a guy's guy, a golfer, watching old

highlights of Mr. Palmer's like stepping onto a Hollywood set where they're filming an

unlikely movie about an actor turned golfer. He was almost too cool to seem real. My dad,

I talked to this morning, you know, the guy that taught me the game of golf mentioned that

Arnold Palmer was his hero, you know, really a testament to the generation that got to watch

Arnold Palmer compete week in week out. It's so many cool events, so many amazing championships.

Such a run in his career, you know, in the late 50s and early 60s when he won those four masters.

He was an animal on the golf course, and of course such a gentleman off it.

I wanted to read this excerpt.

This is from Chasing Greatness, a great book about Oakmont.

And it's interesting.

This is actually about Arnold Palmer not winning the

1973 U.S. Open. But, you know, he struggled a bit late in his round. And it says, with the

round finally over, Palmer sitting in the locker room in his underwear with a cigarette in one

hand and a beer can in the other, spoke with the swarm of reporters. Many just as dispirited by his back

nine collapses Arnie's army. He said, I won this tournament once when I wasn't really supposed to,

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