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Arnold Palmer

Enterprises, a multi-division structure encompassing much of his global commercial activity. Arnold is president and sole owner of Latrobe Country Club (PA) and president and principal owner of the Bay Hill Club and Lodge, Orlando, FL. In 1999 Arnold and a group of investors purchased the famed Pebble Beach golf complex on the California coast. Another important facet of his activities involves the Palmer Course Design Company. Since the mid-1960s, Palmer has put his stamp on more than 200 new courses throughout the nation and world. The golfing great has been the recipient of countless honors, symbolic plaques, trophies and citations, the epitome coming in 2004 when he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush at a White House ceremony. He has received virtually every national award in golf including the Hickok Professional Athlete of the Year and Sports Illustrated's Sportsman of the Year trophies. He played a major role in the fund-raising drive that led to the creation of the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Women in Orlando in the 1980s. He underwent successful prostate cancer surgery in 1997 and has become a strong advocate of programs supporting cancer research and early detection.

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