Arnold Palmer won seven major championships in his career: four Masters, two British\u00a0Opens and one U.S. Open. Here is a look at the biggest wins in Palmer’s career.<\/p>\n
The Masters \u2022 1958<\/strong> The Masters \u2022 1960<\/strong> U.S. Open \u2022 1960<\/strong> British Open \u2022 1961<\/strong> The Masters \u2022 1962<\/strong> British Open \u2022 1962<\/strong> The Masters \u2022 1964<\/strong>
\nData<\/strong>
\nAugusta National Golf Club
\nAugusta, Ga.
\nScore: 284 (-4), 1-stroke win
\nNext closest: Doug Ford, Fred Hawkins
\nThe story<\/strong>
\n\u201cYoung Arnold Palmer,\u201d as the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette led with the next morning, was 28 when he won his first major. It was a win to remember for many, not just Palmer. Renowned Sports Illustrated golf writer Herbert Warren Wind coined the now-ubiquitous term \u201cAmen Corner\u201d for Augusta\u2019s 12th and 13th holes, the former of which saw Palmer involved in a controversial ruling. At the 12th \u2014 and in the final round, no less \u2014 Palmer appealed to officials for a relief because of what he believed was an embedded ball before making double-bogey. He replayed the hole, shot par,and later on word came down that officials would accept his 3 rather than his 5. Those two strokes proved to be the difference. For his efforts, the fifth-year pro from Latrobe earned $11,250, the first five-figure prize in Masters history.<\/p>\n
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\nData<\/strong>
\nAugusta National Golf Club
\nAugusta, Ga.
\nScore: 282 (-6), 1-stroke win
\nNext closest: Ken Venturi
\nThe story<\/strong>
\nTwo years after his first major win, Palmer did it again at the same place, and even shot two strokes better this time. Again, it was a one-stroke victory, and again, some controversy \u2014 but mostly clutch. Dow Finsterwald, who finished third, was penalized two strokes \u2014 the same number he finished behind Palmer in the end \u2014 after the second round, a self-reported violation for practicing putting on the green after a hole. But no one could deny Palmer\u2019s poise as he birdied the final two holes to edge Venturi, who was also right there in the mix in 1958 when he finished tied for fourth two strokes behind Palmer after leading through the first round. Two years later, Palmer led wire-to-wire, only the second to do so and first in 19 years. This Masters also was the second appearance and first time making the cut for a hotshot 20-year-old named Jack Nicklaus.<\/p>\n
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\nData<\/strong>
\nCherry Hills Country Club
\nEnglewood, Colo.
\nScore: 280 (-4), 2-stroke win
\nNext closest: Jack Nicklaus
\nThe story<\/strong>
\nTwo months after winning his second Masters, Palmer would capture his third major and only U.S. Open crown in one of the golf world\u2019s more memorable tournaments. Not only did Palmer, 30, storm back after trailing by seven strokes (it was eight through three rounds) and shoot 65 in the final round, but he also beat out promising youngster Jack Nicklaus, on the upswing of his career, and 47-year-old veteran Ben Hogan, on the decline of his own. Palmer, then, was perhaps at his pinnacle, winning back-to-back majors in which he played some of his best golf down the stretch. It is still the biggest final-round comeback in the history of the U.S. Open, an event he would never win again but would finish runner-up four more times, all in the next seven years.<\/p>\n
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\nData<\/strong>
\nRoyal Birkdale Golf Club
\nSouthport, England
\nScore: 284 (-4), 1-stroke win
\nNext closest: Dai Rees
\nThe story<\/strong>
\nAlready a two-time Masters champion, this was only Palmer\u2019s second Open appearance, coming off a runner-up finish the year before. He shot 70, 73, 69, 72 to become the first American winner of the Claret Jug since Ben Hogan eight years before. It was another comeback victory, and this time in rainy weather that followed windy and wet conditions the previous three days, even forcing the cancellation of play on Friday. That all made his third- and final-round performances, both on Saturday, and tournament score all the more impressive.<\/p>\n
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\nData<\/strong>
\nAugusta National Golf Club
\nAugusta, Ga.
\nScore: 280 (-8), playoff win
\nNext closest: Gary Player
\nThe story<\/strong>
\nAfter winning in Augusta in 1958 and 1960, Palmer figured he\u2019d make it an every-other-year kind of tradition. And, of course, it came in historic fashion. With Palmer, Gary Player and Dow Finsterwald tied after 72 holes, they went to the first three-way playoff in Masters history. Player was the defending champ, and Finsterwald had his own narrow miss in 1960. But Palmer had nearly won four consecutive Masters, finishing third in 1959 and tied for second in 1961, and he wasn\u2019t about to let another one slip away. He shot 68 in Monday\u2019s playoff round, besting Player\u2019s 71 and Finsterwald\u2019s 77 before a crowd of 16,000, per the next day\u2019s Post-Gazette.<\/p>\n
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\nData<\/strong>
\nRoyal Troon Golf Club
\nTroon, South Ayrshire, Scotland
\nScore: 276 (-12), 6-stroke win
\nNext closest: Kel Nagle
\nThe story<\/strong>
\nPalmer made it two years in a row at golf\u2019s oldest major, and two major wins in 1962. For the first time, he cruised to a relatively easy victory. Palmer shot 71, 69, 67, 69, pulling away from the Australian Nagle in the third round Friday morning before cementing his championship in the afternoon. \u201cI\u2019ve never played four rounds of golf like these in my whole life,\u201d he told The Associated Press after setting what was then the lowest four-round score in Open history. His 67 also was the lowest round at Troon\u2019s Old Course at the time.<\/p>\n
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\nData<\/strong>
\nAugusta National Golf Club
\nAugusta, Ga.
\nScore: 276 (-12), 6-stroke win
\nNext closest: Dave Marr, Jack Nicklaus
\nThe story<\/strong>
\nIt took another two years, but Palmer wasn\u2019t done at Augusta. In what would be his final major championship, Palmer, 34, shot under 70 in each of the first three rounds. He finished with a 70 and withstood Jack Nicklaus\u2019 final-round 67 to become the first player to win four Masters. Palmer\u2019s $20,000 prize was nearly double that of 1958, and it was his first major win since 1962 and first win at any tournament in six months. It would be his last hurrah in a sense, but it was certainly a satisfying triumph, and he told the AP it was \u201cprobably the single most exciting tournament win in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arnold Palmer won seven major championships in his career: four Masters, two British\u00a0Opens and one U.S. Open. Here is a look at the biggest wins in Palmer’s career.\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"coauthors":[10],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/arnold-palmer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2016\/09\/8lq00kc7-1.jpg?fit=1475%2C1261&ssl=1","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7WGNt-R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/arnold-palmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/arnold-palmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/arnold-palmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/arnold-palmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/arnold-palmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/arnold-palmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/arnold-palmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/arnold-palmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/arnold-palmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/arnold-palmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/arnold-palmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/arnold-palmer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}