If you throw in some 25 TPC courses to which all PGA Tour members have access, the total exceeds 100 and there may be more, since not every club sent him a card or did more than notify him of the bestowal. They accounted for most of Arnold’s 76 different club memberships, many prominent, a few rather obscure, from around the world. Both boxes contained a variety of cards-paper, plastic and a lone metal one-reflecting memberships in a wide range of organizations, mostly for the vast number of golf and country clubs to which he belonged. One was a silver box he received as winner of his first Masters in 1958-engraved with the signatures of all of that year’s contestants-another was acquired by the Eisenhower Trophy for Arnold’s victory in the 1962 Palm Springs Desert Classic. Several crafted boxes rested on the front edge of Arnold Palmer’s cluttered desk for many years in his memorabilia-laden hometown office in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Palmer’s former personal assistant Doc Giffin recalls some of Palmer’s most notable affiliations At the last count we believe Arnold Palmer was a member at 76 golf clubs around the world.
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