Yeah, yeah, Tiger, at 37, is dating Lindsey Vonn, 28, who was in the SI swimsuit edition.
Arnie, at 82, is hosting Kate Upton, 20, at HIS tournament at Bay Hill. Yes, that Kate Upton, the SI Swimsuit COVERGIRL.
http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/...is-week-032013
Arnie is still my hero.
Arnold Palmer, your paradigm of octogenarianism!
Bonus points for being part of the best thing a UNC grad and Maryland grad ever did:
LOL, yea, there were always rumors that Arnie was not only playing golf in his heyday but was also "playing the field". Who knows how true these rumors were. I believe he liked to have a few beers with the other golfers and sportwriters after his round too. And the media in those days did not feel the need to expose the indiscretions of athletes (and politicians - imagine if JFK were around today?).
However, it is still hard to think of anyone in the public realm who had conducted himself in a more exemplary fashion than Arnie has over the years. Maybe Rod Laver in tennis?
In the 1960's, my late father ran into Arnie in a drugstore in Worcester, MA when Arnie was playing in a local tournament and he got Arnie to sign his autograph on a corner of the Wall Street Journal that my father had just bought. I had that fading, yellowing scrap of paper for decades, until it finally disintegrated.
Totally random aside, but my (now deceased) grandfather started a company that de-acidifies paper, which keeps it from falling apart. Most of their business is with university libraries and the Library of Congress, but they did have a consumer spray around for a few years (it was way too expensive to catch on).
http://www.ptlp.com/consumer.html
I hope no one takes this as an advertisement (I don't even think it's possible to get the consumer spray any more), more that there are all kinds of random companies out there with solutions for stuff like this.
Actually, the product is still available.