• Arnold Palmer, 79, attracts millions to the USGA — and has inspired a new museum, the Arnold Palmer Center for Golf History
"I'm chairman of the USGA members program. It's important for golf that the USGA have a large membership. In the long run, the USGA is probably the most important single body in golf. It brings many more people into the game and helps them understand it better. It teaches the rules and etiquette. It encourages young people coming into the game to give it the respect it deserves. "I was very pleased and proud this year to have been given the privilege of having the USGA 's new museum open in my name. It's like winning the Amateur, Open and Senior Open all at once. I don't think you can put into words how important it is to me as an individual. When I was a kid, it was my family, God, and the USGA. If there was a fire at the museum and I could only save one artifact? The Jim Chase word portrait. That is the most amazing thing I have ever seen in my life." —(Quotes compiled from staff and USGA reporting.)
At left, Palmer in his Latrobe workshop.
See our special section for Gigapan panoramic photos of Palmer's office and the newly renovated USGA museum.
Credit: Chris Stanford/Corbis Outline
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