1964 ARNOLD PALMER GETS A GREEN JACKET

You heard of the sports fan that jumps the bandwagon, he follows the teams that win, like after the Broncos won the Super Bowl last week, although he was a fan of the Panthers, for half of 2015, he buys a Broncos cap and jersey. Fake, fake, fake, fake. Like Elaine Benes on Seinfeld when she told Jerry she never had an orgasm with him. Funny ___! 

Well when I was a kid, my favorite golfer was the guy that won the Masters. Haha, I was a bandwagon jumper at a young age. Well, here's something me and Arnold Palmer have in common. I was born in 64, and that's the year Arnold won a green jacket at Augusta National. Check out his scores that year.

RD. 1- 69
RD. 2- 68
RD. 3- 69
RD. 4- 70
F at -12 

But what's really interesting is this, he won like $20,000. Is that like 4 million today? I don't know but that's some historic stuff here folks. Arnold Palmer was the designer of the Bay and Village Golf Courses just 10 miles from my house at Kapalua. He's a legend for sure. That year he beat the likes of Dave Marr by 6, Jack by 6, well he just kicked everybody's ass that year. 

1964 he became the first four-time winner at Augusta National. And he didn't have adjustable drivers back then, in fact they used restricted flight golf balls. Haha. You ever looked at Arnold Palmer? He could have been a western cowboy actor killing Indians and fist fighting with John Wayne. But he's a good commercial actor.

Ron Sambrano
Golf Blogger