IRVING, TX – The Salesmanship Club awarded golf legend Arnold Palmer with the third annual Byron Nelson Prize at the HP Byron Nelson Championship Opening Ceremony on Tuesday.
The Byron Nelson Prize, sponsored by the T. Boone Pickens Foundation, is awarded to a person or organization in the golf world who exemplifies the ideals of “giving back” that Byron Nelson personified.
Mr. Palmer attended the Opening Ceremony to receive the Prize and spoke about the special honor that this award represented for him.
“Those things that Byron did over his life were pretty fantastic, and when he won 11 tournaments in a row, I was sitting on the edge of my seat watching and just waiting for it to happen again,” Palmer said. “Byron Nelson was a man that continued to contribute to not just the game of golf, but to life and to other people. He was a person that I had the highest respect for.”
The Salesmanship Club of Dallas awarded $100,000 to the charity of Palmer’s choice. Palmer directed this charitable contribution to the Arnold D. and Winifred W. Palmer Charitable Foundation.
“It is our great honor to award Mr. Palmer with the Byron Nelson Prize,” Salesmanship Club of Dallas President Frank Swingle said. “Mr. Palmer exemplifies the values of our namesake. He perpetuates Mr. Nelson’s legacy of integrity, competitive fire, and ‘giving back’ to the game he loved and to his community.”
The 2009 HP Byron Nelson Championship will be played May 18-24 at the TPC Four Seasons Resort Las Colinas in Irving, Texas. For details, visit hpbnc.org.
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