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Arnold Palmer Wins The Amateur – August 28, 1954

August 27, 2019 by Gerry

Arnold Palmer Wins Amateur 1954
Arnold Palmer Wins Amateur 1954

If you wanted to give it a touch of Hollywood coloration—and to do so proved irresistible to a large number of the spectators gathered for the event at the Country Club of Detroit—the final match of the 54th annual United States Amateur championship was a scenario writer’s dream come true: it brought together “a graying millionaire playboy who is a celebrity on two continents” and a “tanned, muscular young salesman from Cleveland who literally grew up on a golf course” and pitted them against each other in a “battle of the classes.” read more SI.com

Filed Under: This Day in Sports History Tagged With: 1954, arnold Palmer, august 28 in sports, golf, sports history in the 50s

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