Clubhouse Notes: How to Make or Get an Arnold Palmer
April 27, 2007 10:33 AM | 0 Comments
Everyone who ever dines out with me knows that ever since the infamous job interview several years ago, my non-adult beverage of choice is hands-down an Arnold Palmer. I have a dream/delusion that one day Arnold Palmer and I will sit down in a sun-drenched clubhouse and sip Arnold Palmers together. We will avoid the subject of golf, since I know so little about it and instead discuss politics or ailments or religion - uncontentious issues. But, back to the point: Recipes.
Here's how to make an Arnold Palmer: Combine 5 oz. lemonade with 5 oz. iced tea in a tall glass with ice. Very satisfying.
As for the alcoholic Hop, Skip & Go Naked, this drink, which is the #3 version on www.drinksmixer.com, is a blend of vodka, lemonade and Budweiser lager.
If you weren’t very good in chemistry or fractions, or are too lazy to create an Arnold Palmer for yourself, you do have some options. AriZona Beverages produces an Arnold Palmer Lite Half & Half, featuring black & white photos of the great golfer’s finest moments on its labels. Additionally, Innovative Flavors L.L.C. has produced “the original” Arnold Palmer Tee®
In the adult beverage category, PGA golfer David Frost of David Frost Wines has paid homage to Arnold Palmer by dedicating several of its premier wines as the Arnold Palmer Vintage, including the 1999 David Frost Cabernet Sauvignon Reserve, 1999 David Frost Merlot Reserve, 2000 Chardonnay and the 2001 Sauvignon Blanc. Each label features a portrait of Palmer painted by world-renowned artist LeRoy Neiman.
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From the Golf Archives
What Does Arnold Palmer Mean to the Sports Widow?
April 26, 2007 10:17 AM | 0 Comments
I have since learned from a quick check on www.pga.com that by the end of 1993, Arnold Palmer amassed 92 championships in professional competitions of national or international stature. He won seven majors between 1958 and 1964, including one U.S. Open, four Masters and two British Opens. His back-to-back triumphs in the 1961 and ’62 British Opens, brought this competition back into vogue for Americans. The only victory that eluded Palmer was the PGA Championship. In 1980, nearly two decades after his last major victory, he won the PGA Senior Championship, the first Senior Tour event he ever entered.
What Does Arnold Palmer Mean to the Sports Widow?
April 26, 2007 10:17 AM | 0 Comments
I have since learned from a quick check on www.pga.com that by the end of 1993, Arnold Palmer amassed 92 championships in professional competitions of national or international stature. He won seven majors between 1958 and 1964, including one U.S. Open, four Masters and two British Opens. His back-to-back triumphs in the 1961 and ’62 British Opens, brought this competition back into vogue for Americans. The only victory that eluded Palmer was the PGA Championship. In 1980, nearly two decades after his last major victory, he won the PGA Senior Championship, the first Senior Tour event he ever entered.
Iced Tee: My First Encounter with Arnold Palmer
April 25, 2007 1:44 PM | 0 Comments
While in Wapato Point in Lake Chelan, Washington, during Spring Break, I was reminded of one of many times in my life when it was clear that there is NO escape from sports, no safe haven for the Sports Widow. It was one of my more memorable job interviews several years ago, which began on a precarious footing.
I was being interviewed for a job over lunch at a seafood restaurant on Lake Union in Seattle. The job was way out of my league: Corporate, relatively high salary, generally reputable. I was convinced they would never hire a lunatic like me, but then, no guts, no glory. Furthermore, my prospective boss and interviewer is everything that I am not as a professional. She speaks in bullet points. I speak in tongues. She has unnaturally blond hair, but it is clearly a salon versus a drugstore creation. Her makeup is carefully applied (with no visible lines indicating where the foundation ends and her real face begins), and she is wearing an outfit that reminds me of one of the members of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Uniforms like this with epaulettes say, “I’m in charge.”
Challenges at the Putt Putt Golf Course
April 11, 2007 11:48 PM | 0 Comments
One of the joys of our Spring Break at Wapato Point in Lake Chelan, Washington, is the 19-station Putt Putt golf course. We play the course several times throughout the week, starting in the Kiosk where we make the tough choices about equipment: Which club is the right length? Which ball color best matches our outfits? that kind of thing. Then we all have to decide our strategies. For instance, my 12-year-old daughter Kit is a herder. She never waits for the ball to stop, but keeps it in constant motion until it tumbles into a hole. In contrast, 9-year-old Austin is quick and aggressive.
How I Became a Sports Widow
March 2, 2006 7:11 AM | 0 Comments
The only math formula I ever memorized was: Tragedy+Time=Comedy. When I apply this to my relationship with sports, believe me, comedy is the operative word.
