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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