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Americans played very well and deserved their win.
They were the favourites this time round and showed why.
Europe blew it at the end if the 2nd day after closing the gap and then never recovered.
Well done the american team.
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Arnold Palmer appeared in two feature films in his life. One was the 1963 Bob Hope comedy CALL ME BWANA, in which he appeared as himself, and the other was the 1975 comedy RETURN TO CAMPUS, in which Palmer played a character named "Spike Belfry."
Producer Harold Cornsweet made RETURN TO CAMPUS with private money raised from former classmates at Shaker Heights High School in Cleveland, Ohio, and Ohio State University in Columbus. Cornsweet also wrote, directed, and played a small part in the film, which cost $350,000 to produce. Like the film's main character “Hal Norman" (played by Earl Keyes), Cornsweet was a former Ohio State University football player who left school in 1941 because of World War II.
Cornsweet premiered RETURN TO CAMPUS on 30 April 1975 in Columbus, Ohio, but he planned a second premiere—billed as a “world premiere”—in Cleveland, with the title changed to "The Buckeye Bomber Returns to Campus." However, by the time the film screened on 8 October 1975, the title reverted to RETURN TO CAMPUS, according to the 27 October 1975 issue of Boxoffice. Among attendees was former actor and California governor Ronald Reagan. Cornsweet emphasized the film’s “G-rated, entertaining commercial” appeal “with no violence, dope, drinking, obscene language, cheap sex or crime.” Distributor American Films picked up the film a year later.
Following Cornsweet's death in October 1977, DeLuxe General Incorporated in Hollywood, CA, advertised a public sale in order to satisfy a lien of $9,858 against his estate. Sold were “six 35mm mounted cans of action (picture) negative [and] six mounted cans of soundtrack.” The buyer was not identified, and the film has not been seen since.
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Does anybody remember the reference to Palmer that Bond's caddy makes in the golf game in "Goldfinger"?
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from today's (print) NY Times--
It Takes a Small Army to Equal Arnie
There will never be another Arnold Palmer. But many of his endearing qualities can be
found in the men competing at the Masters. Together they form golf’s composite King.
By KAREN CROUSE
The first major event after a patriarch’s passing can be rough on his family. As the golf community gathers at Augusta National Golf Club for the Masters this week, Arnold Palmer’s absence from the tournament he dearly loved and won four times will be acutely felt.
“It will never be the same,” said Curtis Strange, a two-time United States Open winner who attended Wake Forest on a scholarship named after Palmer, the most famous Demon Deacon golfer. “The tournament will go on and players will come and go, but there will be a void.”
Palmer played in 50 Masters tournaments and hit the ceremonial first shot nine consecutive years after that. About five and a half months before his death in September at 87, he was an honorary non-hitting starter at the 80th Masters in 2016. Palmer sat at the back of the tee box and watched the drives of Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus.
“I think everybody was happy to see Arnold out on the tee,” Nicklaus said, “and I think Arnold was happy to be on the tee.”
No single player will ever replace Palmer, who mixed seemingly antithetical qualities to the same pleasing effect as iced tea and lemonade: humility and showmanship; kindness and competitiveness; accessibility and nobility. But many of the qualities that endeared him to royalty and commoners alike live on in the men who will vie for the green jacket that Palmer donned in 1958, 1960, 1962 and 1964.
While there will never be another Arnie, this year’s Masters contains many of his kindred spirits. Together they form golf’s composite King.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/sports/golf/masters-arnold-palmer.html?hpw&rref=sports&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region
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