Arnold Palmer won the first of his seven major championships at the Masters in 1958. Here is an excerpt from Man in the News column in The New York Times on April 7, 1958.

AUGUSTA, Ga., April 6 — Arnold Palmer, the new Masters golf champion has nerves of steel. Appropriately enough he comes from the steel area of Pennsylvania and Ohio. He was born in Youngstown, Ohio, Sept. 10, 1929, and now resides in Latrobe, Pa., when he’s not on the touring pro circuit.

It was at Latrobe, where his dad, M.J. (Deacon) Palmer, is the professional at the Latrobe Country Club, that Arnold first saw a golf club. He began to swing one at the objects he saw in his dad’s shop when he was about 8 years old.

Arnold always as a sturdy youngster and took to the game readily. He won the Pennsylvania State junior championship before going on to score with this elders in the State’s amateur title competition.