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Old July 5th, 2007, 06:26 PM
green15 green15 is offline
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Re: You got any autographs?

I got Arnold Palmer and Lee Trevino to sign 8x10's at Administaff Small Business Classic 2 years ago. Stadler, Kite, Watkins, Dent, Irwin, Crenshaw.

I have Vijay, Couples, CH3, Elkington, Leonard, Toms, Loren Roberts, Olazabal, Clarke, Todd Hamilton, Jacobson, Axley, Crane, Damron, Glover, Tway, Frazar, Bohn, Maruyama, Padraig Harrington, and bunches more, mostly guys that come to Shell Houston Open. I have a flag signed by about 30 guys from last years Funai Classic at Disney.

I took my son (4) to the Shell this year and he wanted to get a flag signed, so he got about 20 including Harrington, Toms, Elkington. Brandt Snedeker and Parker McLachlin went out of there way to make him feel special - not only did they sign his flag, but gave him golf balls, and signed gloves, high fives and talked to him like a friend. There are a lot of really good guys on Tour.

My wife and I went to Administaff 3 years and had gotten some signatures, and were walking back to the parking lot when we saw Palmer drive up. He smiled and gave that signature thumbs up. He parked about 5 spots from where we were walking, so we waited for him. He took a while gathering and selecting his clubs for the day while his security "entourage" gathered.

They brought him a cart and once he loaded up, he drove right up to us and waved. My wife asked if he would sign, and the security guards, quickly jumped in front of her. He stopped and told them that she didn't look too dangerous and waved her over. He looked at the course map (what she had gathered signatures on) and said "look at how messy these signatures are! How can you tell what they say?" As he looked at the names you could see him kind of chuckle to himself and then he finally said, "wow, I have played with some of these guys for a really long time!"

He ended up signing his name very neatly and deliberately and offered her a handshake and a thank you for attending the tournament. Just one more verification that he is truly the class act that he appears to be on TV.
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