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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Both doors into the two-car garage at the lakefront townhouse located only a few hundred yards from the Bay Hill Club and Lodge clubhouse are open. The man inside, tinkering at a work bench, waves you in."I'm Arnold Palmer," he says. "Welcome to my garage."
This is the most famous garage in golf. To know Arnold Palmer -- and who in golf doesn't want to? -- you acknowledge he is the game's all-time leader in DIY (do-it-yourself) club repair. The game's icon turned 80 earlier this year, but he has always been old school. Palmer never just swung a golf club, he became one with it.
By Palmer's thinking, before you hit a golf club you should know how it was put together.
"It's very important," he says. "It's almost like playing the game. Of course, today most of the players take a set of clubs and dump them off at the company they play for and say, 'Here, fix these.' I don't think players, with very few exceptions, work on their clubs very much any more."
Palmer, of course, has always been golf's exception to the rule. That's why the game may never again see a personality quite like the King. It's also why Golf Channel asked Palmer to open his garage door to tape a segment for an upcoming series called "12 Nights at the Academy."
So here is the tinker master in his element, doors open and a club locked in a vice.
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Source: http://golf.fanhouse.com/2010/11/17/arnold-palmer-the-ultimate-tinkerer-shares-the-secrets-of-his/
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