This Day in Golf History--November 20

This date was a sad family event for the Arnold Palmer family in 1999. His wife, Winnie, died from a malignant tumor in the abdomen lining. Just over a week after winning the U.S. Amateur in 1954, Palmer had a chance encounter with Winifred (Winnie) Walzer on Monday, September 6, at the Shawnee Inn at the 9th Annual Bill Waite Memorial Tournament organized by bandleader Fred Waring in the Pocono Mountains. Arnold asked her to marry him at dinner on Friday, which would have been his 25th birthday. They were married on Monday, Dec. 20, 1954, in Virginia. She died in Latrobe, age 65, and a private memorial service was held two days later at Unity Chapel near Latrobe. She and Arnold had two daughters: Margaret (Peggy), born February 26, 1956, and Amy, born August 4, 1958. For their parents, their marriages produced four granddaughters, two grandsons, nine great grandchildren.