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Arnie Says Goodbye

Friday, April 9, 2004
Richard Mudry

Augusta, Ga. - Playing before a bevy of family, friends and long-time Patrons, Arnold Palmer said an emotional goodbye to the Masters Tournament Friday with his record 50th Championship.

Palmer, 74, was given a hero's sendoff along the fairways of Augusta National Golf Club, receiving warm applause and hearty cheers from appreciative Patrons.

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The four-time Masters Champion was moved by the applause that greeted him on every tee, along every fairway and at every green.

With tears welling in his eyes periodically throughout the day, the charismatic golfer strolled down memory lane on his last competitive round over the 7,290-yard, par-72 layout. His score mattered not to those watching him bid adieu to a tournament that made him famous and that he helped grow as well.

"Augusta and this golf tournament has been about a part of my life as anything other than my family and most of you know that," he said afterward.

"I don't think I could ever separate myself from this club and this golf tournament. I may not be present, I may not be here, but I'll still be part of what happens here only because I want it to be. I've had such a great life and enjoyed it so much."

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Palmer's departure left tears in its wake, tears from Sam Saunders, who caddied for his famous grandfather during the 68th Masters, to his two daughters, many grandchildren and finance Kit Gawthorp.

Emotion?

Plenty, said Palmer.

"A lot," said Palmer, showing the facial strain of his emotional week. "Sometimes I just get tired and the emotion overrules and runs away with me. I'm not upset about it. You know if I can't handle it that's my fault."

Everywhere he walked along the rolling fairways this week, Palmer saw friends, most made over the course of his 50 years at The Masters.

Those tender moments were about the only thing that Arnold Daniel Palmer couldn't handle in his life.

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He handled victory or defeat with equal grace and dignity. He beat prostate cancer and returned to play the following year at The Masters. He handled the loss of his wife, Winnie, to cancer with the dignity one expected of a golf icon.

Palmer said he will return yearly to the Champions Dinner to remain a part of the Masters and will seriously consider a role as an honorary starter, perhaps as early as 2005.

But there will always be the memories, wonderful memories, for a man with a trunk full of them.

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"I've thought about how many times I've walked up that 18th fairway," he said, rewinding his reel of highlights back to 1955, his first Masters appearance.

"I can think of the four times that I won The Masters. I can think of a couple of times that I didn't win that I felt like I should have won. I can think of the fans that have support me and listened to them, and, of course, they all have something to say, or most of them have something to say about what I'm doing when I'm walking up that fairway."

Arnold Palmer never met a fan he didn't like or a fan that didn't like his blue-collar style.

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He never failed to sign an autograph or look a person in the eye whether he was on the fairway playing golf or in an entirely different arena of the business world.

He was a legend who walked among us, said Gary Player, himself a larger-than-life former Masters Champion.

"He gave of himself," said Player. "If you give to the fans, they give back. A lot of athletes are aloof. But Arnold was always aware of the man in the street."

And that can be no greater testimony for anyone.

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Woods Captures Fourth Masters

Sunday, April 10, 2005
Vartan Kupelian

AUGUSTA, Ga. - "This one is for you, Pop."

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With that, Tiger Woods dedicated his fourth Masters Tournament title to his father, Earl.

Woods made a 15-foot birdie putt, down the slope, on the first extra hole Sunday to defeat Chris DiMarco at Augusta National Golf Club.

Woods (71) and DiMarco (68) finished 72 holes tied at 12-under-par 276. Woods, two shots up with two holes to play, made bogey at the 17th and 18th holes. DiMarco forced the playoff with a clutch par putt on the 18th hole after his chip from off the front of the green nearly went in before hitting the cup and rolling away.

With the victory, Woods, 29, now has won nine major championships. His father was in Augusta but ailing and unable to attend the final round of the Masters.

"It was an exciting day to go out there and be able to compete at the level Chris and I did," Woods said. "To play as poorly as I did on 17 and 18 and have a chance to go into a playoff, then hit two of the best shots I hit all week, was pretty sweet.

"This entire week, I hit so many beautiful golf shots."

At one point in the tournament, Woods made 16 birdies in a 30-hole stretch. He said that made it one of his best performances of his career because of the venue.

"No golf course is as good as this," Woods said.

The 2005 Masters quickly became match play between the leaders as they distanced themselves from the field after two holes. Then they were left to deal with each other and it was a remarkable stretch duel.

"I was playing with one heckuva competitor out there," said Woods, complimenting DiMarco. "He's a fighter. What else can you say? The guy grinded his way around the golf course. He fought. He shot 68 today. That's some pretty good playing."

Woods birdied the first hole of the final round to extend his lead to four shots. Both made birdies on the second hold. The lead was three shots at the turn but a Woods bogey at the 10th made it two shots. DiMarco shaved another shot off his deficit with a birdie at the 11th - and then promptly gave it back with a bogey at the 12th.

Just as quickly, DiMarco bounced back, this time with a tap-in birdie after a terrific iron shot at the 14th hole. Both golfers made birdie at the 15th, DiMarco after laying up short of the pond and hitting a wedge to within a few feet.

At the par-3 16th tee, Woods' lead was one shot. It would soon grow to two when he holed a spectacular chip for birdie from behind the 16th green. The chip broke some 25 feet, trickled gently toward the hole and, for an instant, hesitated on the lip before falling.

"The earthquake hit and it went in," Woods said.

It was a shot that will long be remembered.

But DiMarco wasn't done yet. Woods' two-shot lead disappeared when he bogeys at the 17th and 18th holes. DiMarco made two pars, including a clutch up-and-down on the final green.

Ironically, DiMarco, who gave Phil Mickelson a great read on the winning putt last year, had the favor returned when he got an expert read off Woods' par putt that didn't fall. DiMarco made no mistake with his chance and made the putt to force the playoff.

Woods took control Sunday morning when he tied a Masters record with seven straight birdies.

Woods, resuming the third round that was suspended due to darkness Saturday, reeled off four straight birdies beginning at the 10th hole. He had birdied the final three holes on the front nine Saturday before play was called.

Woods shot 7-under-par 65 for a 205 total, 11-under-par, and began the fourth round with a 3-shot lead over DiMarco.

DiMarco, the 36-hole leader, slipped to a 74 and was at eight-under-par. DiMarco, who had made no bogeys in his previous 44 holes, started the morning with a double-bogey 6 at the 10th hole and couldn't recover.

For much of the morning, it looked like Woods would shatter several more records but he dropped two shots on the final five holes. Woods' birdie barrage matched the Masters record set by Steve Pate in 1999. Ironically, Pate birdied the same seven holes - beginning with the seventh and continuing through the 13th.