Arnold Palmer

Arnold Daniel Palmer (September 10, 1929 – September 25, 2016) was a professional golfer in the United States who is largely considered as one of the sport's finest and richest golfers in the world. He has won a number of events on both the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions circuit since 1955. Palmer, dubbed "The King," was one of golf's most popular figures and was regarded as a trailblazer, the sport's first celebrity in the television era, which began in the 1950s.

Palmer's social impact on golf was unrivaled among his peers; his humble beginnings and plain-spoken popularity helped shift the perception of golf from an elite, upper-class sport played at private clubs to a more populist sport played on public courses and accessible to the middle and working classes. During the 1960s, Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, and Gary Player were known as "The Big Three" of golf, and they are credited with popularizing and commercializing the sport around the world.

Palmer won 62 PGA Tour championships in a career that spanned more than six decades, from 1955 to 1973. He is only behind Sam Snead, Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, and Ben Hogan on the Tour's all-time victory list. From the 1958 Masters through the 1964 Masters, he won seven major titles in a six-year reign of terror. In 1998, he received the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award, and in 1974, he was one of the World Golf Hall of Fame's 13 initial inductees.

Net Worth: $700 Million