Arnold Palmer and Sam Snead will be among those honored at the national awards dinner of the Metropolitan Golf Writers Association tonight.

Arnold Palmer has been a blazing figure in golf over the past twelve months.

Until a few weeks ago, however, Arnold Palmer was some god-like creature who had nothing in common with the duffers.

Long after the erratic climate and the washed-out final round on Sunday have become meteorological footnotes, the 1961 Masters will be remembered as the scene of the mano a mano between Arnold Palmer and Gary Player.

As the world's top sportsman -- pro or amateur -- Sports Illustrated tapped golf's confident Arnold Palmer ( Time cover, May 2 ), who staged two cliffhanging rallies to win both the Masters and U.S. Open crowns, went on to win a record $80,738 for the year.

These included such names as Lilias Armstrong, Harold Palmer, Ida Ward, Hélène Coustenoble, Arthur Lloyd James, Dennis Fry, A. C. Gimson, Gordon Arnold, J. D.

In the 1960s, designers Mary Quant and Pierre Cardin worked with the company, whose products graced the heads of the rich and famous, including the Beatles and Arnold Palmer, and later Princess Diana.

* 1929 – Arnold Palmer, American golfer

* September 10 – Arnold Palmer, American golfer

Some of Bedrock's sports heroes include: football player " Red Granite " ( Red Grange ), wrestler " Bronto Crushrock " ( Bronko Nagurski ), golfer " Arnold Palmrock " ( Arnold Palmer ), boxers " Floyd Patterstone " ( Floyd Patterson ) and " Sonny Listone " ( Sonny Liston ), and baseball players " Sandy Stoneaxe " ( Sandy Koufax ), " Lindy McShale " ( Lindy McDaniel ), " Roger Marble " ( Roger Maris ) and " Mickey Marble " or " Mickey Mantlepiece " ( Mickey Mantle ).

Among its claims to fame, Latrobe is the home of the Latrobe Brewery ( the original brewer of Rolling Rock beer ), Saint Vincent College, and golfer Arnold Palmer.

* Arnold Palmer Regional Airport ( formerly known as Westmoreland County Airport )

* Arnold Palmer, professional golfer

* Arnold Palmer Regional Airport

Arnold Daniel Palmer ( born September 10, 1929 ) is an American professional golfer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of men's professional golf.

He learned golf from his father, Milford ( Deacon ) Palmer who had suffered from Polio at a young age, and was head professional and greenskeeper at Latrobe Country Club, allowing young Arnold to accompany his father as he maintained the course.

Palmer has had a diverse golf-related business career, including owning the Bay Hill Club and Lodge, which is the venue for the PGA Tour's Arnold Palmer Invitational ( renamed from the Bay Hill Invitational in 2007 ), helping to found The Golf Channel, and negotiating the deal to build the first golf course in the People's Republic of China.

This led to the formation of Palmer Course Design in 1972, which was renamed Arnold Palmer Design Company when the company moved to Orlando Florida in 2006.

The licensing, endorsements, spokesman associations and commercial partnerships built by Palmer and McCormack are managed by Arnold Palmer Enterprises.

Palmer now resides near his golf course, Arnold Palmer's Bay Hill Country Club and Lodge, in Orlando, Florida which was originally designed by Dick Wilson.

As a reaction against the nationalist school, who was identified as " servile " to the centralizing politics of Getúlio Vargas, in 1939 the Movimento Música Viva ( Living Music Movement ) appeared, led by Hans Joachim Koellreutter and by Egídio de Castro e Silva, defending the adoption of an international style, derived from the dodecaphonism of Arnold Schoenberg.

He is the author of several books, including Vindication of the Captors of Major Andre, defending the three American Patriots who captured the spy Major John Andre, which led to the discovery of the plot to surrender West Point to the British by Benedict Arnold.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Jerry Brown for not defending Proposition 8 in the federal judicial system.

When British General Benedict Arnold attacked Richmond, Virginia, Mitchell was defending Petersburg, Virginia when he was captured on May 10, 1781.

In the final round, he birdied five of his last six holes to shoot a 66 and overtake Cary Middlecoff and defending champion Arnold Palmer.

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

In this post he enhanced his reputation as a champion of new music, playing a number of new works, including Leoš Janáček's From the House of the Dead, Arnold Schönberg's Erwartung, Igor Stravinsky's Oedipus rex, and Paul Hindemith's Cardillac.

During his time as world featherweight champion, Attell was allegedly involved with gambler / gangster Arnold Rothstein.

This journey from night to day proceeds via an extraordinary third movement scherzo, marked schattenhaft ( shadowy ), which may have been what prompted Arnold Schoenberg to become a particular champion of the work.

Arnold Raymond Cream ( January 31, 1914 – February 25, 1994 ), better known as Jersey Joe Walcott, was a world heavyweight boxing champion.

However, Nicklaus ' one-under-par 287 tied for seventh in the 1961 Masters Tournament, and was second that year only to Charles Coe's low amateur placing, when he tied for second with Arnold Palmer at seven-under par 281, one shot behind champion Gary Player.

In 2009, Jay Cutler became the third Mr. Olympia in history ( the others being Arnold Schwarzenegger and Franco Columbu ) to reclaim the title and the only Mr. Olympia in history to reclaim the title after having it lost, by returning on stage and defeating the reigning champion Dexter Jackson who placed third in 2009.

New York gangster Arnold Rothstein supplied the money through his lieutenant Abe Attell, a former featherweight boxing champion.

Among the dead are John Dieckman, an international champion flyfisher and caster ; retired Admiral Richard Lansing Conolly, USN, the president of Long Island University and a two-time Deputy Chief of Naval Operations ; W. Alton Jones, a multi-millionaire former president and chairman of Cities Service Company and close personal friend of former General of the Army and President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower ; Arnold Kirkeby, a millionaire realtor and former head of the Kirkeby chain of luxury hotels ; Louise Lindner Eastman, whose daughter Linda Eastman would later marry Paul McCartney of The Beatles ; Irving Rubine, producer of the film The Guns of Navarone ; Emelyn Whiton, a 1952 Olympic sailing gold medalist ; and the Broadway stage manager Bob Paschall.

By that time, Eddy had been coached by Arnold Urquidez, and suffered the 1st round KO to the PKA world heavyweight champion Ross Scott in the previous year.

* Jersey Joe Walcott, born Arnold Raymond Cream, a world Heavyweight boxing champion -- often compared to former world Welterweight champion Barbados Joe Walcott, thus nicknamed Jersey Joe Walcott

Arnold became world champion when she outpointed Draine over ten rounds, taking a split decision victory.

Then on January 10, 1998 she faced IBA world Bantamweight champion Theresa Arnold for the vacant IWBF world Bantamweight title.

Jones became a world champion and, at the same time, the only person to defeat Arnold as a professional, with a seventh-round knockout win in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

In America, Harold Bloom has taken a more exclusive line in a number of works, as did F. R. Leavis earlier — both, like Arnold, being mainly concerned with literature, and unafraid to champion vociferously the literature of the Western canon.

A popular choice of venue, it drew rave reviews by the players, specifically the 1972 champion Gay Brewer, who called it the best course he had ever played in Canada, and Arnold Palmer, who suggested the Open be held there again the following year.

Arnold Taylor ( 15 July 1945 – 22 November 1981 ) was a South African boxer who became the WBA Bantamweight champion in 1973.

They had three children: daughter Lisa Halaby, who would ultimately become Queen Consort of Jordan ; son Christian, now a composer and guitarist ; and daughter Alexa, a University of Pennsylvania squash champion who was a bridesmaid at the 1986 wedding of Maria Owings Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Famous for his mass and strength, Reg Park was an early influence and lifelong mentor to champion bodybuilder and former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Arnold Hills was also a keen sportsman who was the English mile and three mile champion, and in his youth had played football and cricket ( he was Captain of the 1st XI ) for his school team Harrow.

Jay Cutler became the third Mr. Olympia in history ( along with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Franco Columbu ) to reclaim the title, and the only Mr. Olympia in history to reclaim the title after having lost it, defeating the reigning champion Dexter Jackson in 2009.