And Introducing...

At the Country Club of Detroit—the final match of the 54th annual United States Amateur championship...there was Arnold Palmer , 24, a compact five foot eleven, seven months out of the Coast Guard , the son of the professional at the Latrobe Golf Club in Latrobe, Pa., an industrial town 40 miles from Pittsburgh . Palmer had learned to drive the club's tractor when he was seven, grown up with golf, attended Wake Forest College before and after his three-year hitch in the Coast Guard , and earlier this summer had won his first important tournament, the All-American at Tam O'Shanter.
—SI, SEPT. 6