Golf legend Arnold Palmer sadly passed away today at the grand old age of 87. An icon of the game of golf his influence was even felt on my childhood in remotest Lancashire during the Sixties, when one Christmas I received a huge golf toy.
It wasn't any old thing either. It was the Arnold Palmer Pro Shot golf set by Marx. An amazing toy, it has a miniature Arnold at the end of a golf club contraption. By turning the handle you could get mini Arnold to play shots for you! It was a stroke of genius.
You can get an idea of what it was like to use on this You Tube clip.
Did you have this set readers?
Arnold Palmer RIP.
Just this Sunday past [25/09/2016], I was clearing out the Attic of my Late Parents home, and I came across the Pro Shot Golf set, complete in the box! - I've yet to check through each individual piece, but it still worked when I last used it in 1971...
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How coincidental is that Bill! A great find. I saw one in a junk shop recently too. I'd forgotten just how big the box was! Its huge!
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