One spring morning nearly 30 years ago, as Arnold Palmer and I were working on his much-anticipated memoir, I asked him to tell me about the famous Bay Hill Shootout. At his invitation, I’d played in it twice, found it to be loads of fun and even collected 50 bucks as Arnie’s playing partner in my second exposure to the event.
So, as we sat in his cozy Bay Hill workshop (as usual, Arnie was rewrapping a club), I asked him what the daily Shootout meant to him. Here’s what the King said:
“One of my great pleasures is playing in the Bay Hill Shootout. When I’m home from the road, that’s usually where you’ll find me after a morning’s work in the office and a quick lunch – preparing to tee it up with a bunch of golfing cutthroats, friendly rogues, old friends, and generally all-around good guys.”