Quotes of the Week: Remembering Palmer
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Sam Saunders
“I started thinking about all the years that I've played in the tournament, and I just started thinking about him driving around in the cart and watching me. 'And just to see it sitting there empty ... yeah, that's hard. I think we all feel that. I had my emotional moment, looked at it, and then got my head where it needed to be to play the next hole.'' – Arnold Palmer’s grandson, a PGA Tour player
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Charley Hoffman
“[I]t wouldn't be in the closet, it would be on the wall.'' – explaining what he would do – if he won - with the red cardigan sweater that has become the Arnold Palmer Invitational’s version of a Masters green jacket
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Alastair Johnston
“Last year, [Tiger] couldn’t come when he planned on coming. And he left a voicemail for Arnold Palmer that we still have on record that wasn’t just an explanation of why he couldn’t be here, but he took it upon himself to talk about Arnold Palmer, to Arnold Palmer, in his voicemail. It was one of the most meaningful monologues I’ve ever heard from anybody, but it represented Tiger’s view on Arnold Palmer and what he has done for him, the game of golf, and for a universe at large.”
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Rory McIlroy
"In this day and age, where you've got women that are the leaders of certain industries and women that are heads of state, and not to be able to join a golf course? It's obscene. Like, it's ridiculous. … And yeah, we'll go back and we'll play the Open Championship because they will let women members in, but every time I go to Muirfield now I won't have a great taste in my mouth."
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Anna Nordqvist
''They always say that home is where the heart is, and my heart is definitely still here. I always say I'm a West Coast girl and people remind me I'm from Sweden. But even though I live in Florida now, this definitely feels like home.'' – after the former Arizona State player took the lead in the Bank of Hope Founders Cup, played in Phoenix
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Cody Gribble
''The gator looked like he needed some exercise,.” – after swatting an alligator on the tail, causing the startled animal to jump into a water hazard at Bay Hill
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Ian Baker-Finch
''As a person and an honorary invitee, I'm disappointed because it was my favorite day of the year.” – on Augusta National’s decision to no longer invite “honorary invitees” – winners of other major championships – to pay in the Par-3 Contest
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Michelle Wie
“I have no idea. At this point, I can't describe anything I do while I putt.” – on her latest putting method
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The R&A
''It is extremely important for us in staging one of the world's great sporting events that women can become members at all of our host clubs. Muirfield is a truly outstanding Open venue and we very much look forward to taking the championship back there in future.'' – after Muirfield members reversed an earlier vote that had barred women from becoming members
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