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The memory of Arnold Palmer in the foreground
When we talk about golf or the stars of golf, no one will forget "The King" Arnold Palmer. Formed part of golf's "Big Three" along with Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, who are widely credited with popularizing the sport around the world.
It had previously made-for-TV golf, golf live TV from Monday to Friday, television golf all day on weekends and only one TV channel for golf â € "all decisions on ad space more valuable golf visors â €" was not the case of love at first sight that has things rolling.
This is how Frank Chirkinian, who pioneered golf television, remember.
"The television camera is invasive, who knows everything, "he says." The camera fell in love with Arnold Palmer. Today, Arnold is still loved by the camera. It's an amazing relationship .
Chirkinian, who produced the TV golf for four decades after joining CBS Sports in the same year â € "1958 â € "which Palmer won the Masters for the first time, recalls her first reaction when he saw Palmer in the air:" He threw his cigarette to the ground, climbed pants. It was, 'My God, who's that? ""
That enthusiasm was reinforced by what might be the offer more fundamental handshake in U.S. history sports marketing.
In 1959, Mark McCormack was a young lawyer in Cleveland who had first found Palmer once while playing college golf for William & Mary, Palmer played for Wake Forest. He was interested in creating a sports management company and â € "through that handshake 1959 â €" got Palmer as its first customer.
The company grew to become IMG, which became the dominant sporting power marketing. Palmero in a speech tribute to McCormack after his death in 2003, said he had "Maybe millions" of handshakes, but could not "think of one that has meant more to me and my career," to which one to McCormack.
"They say time is everything," says Johnny Miller, lead golf analyst for NBC, whose career highlights were winning the U.S. 1973 Open after teeing off in the final round six shots behind the leader, which included Palmer. "And Arnie was the perfect opportunity to play golf on television."
Perfect, because the TV sports â € "and sports marketing, after the TV exposure â €" really took off in the decade 1960. And Miller, who decided in his youth with a "game" to copy specific impulse Palmer, Palmer remembered as the man perfect leader for TV: "The way we played was running and manly. Never made excuses, never acted like a crybaby, he was very gracious in defeat."
And, suggests Miller, Palmer senses of marketing: "I knew it was important to make friends with people, make eye contact, never turn for an autograph. Phil Mickelson has Arnie copied more than anyone else (on tour today) and he is the man to other tour players should be copied, not target = "_blank"> Tiger Woods. "
Chirkinian Palmer suggests style provides viewers new golf television. "It seemed like a non-elitist, a worker type, as was then seen as a country club sport and the spectators, he said, "His swing is very similar to mine, dammit."
Palmer, like other rare athletes like Michael Jordan and Muhammad Ali, which can add millions of viewers with TV ratings, did not enter full-time broadcasting. NBC golf reporter Roger Maltbie, which Palmer calls "my hero is my hero growing up and until today," he recalls listening to Palmer, who helped found The Golf Channel when at times appeared as a TV analyst: "Arnold has never said anything in his entire career to offend anyone, and that's my memory of him on television."
It is also a pretty good description of how a sports superstar has to come through to become a marketing superstar. IMG has grown into the largest U.S. distributor and TV sports producer and now a model and CEOs, and athletes.
While Nick Faldo, now CBS's lead golf analyst, said in 1995 at the British Open last Palmer: "Had there been no Arnold Palmer in 1960, (this) could have been a small shed on the beach instead of this healthy environment. You can not say what the man has done for the game. That is all. "
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