{"id":8397,"date":"2016-09-26T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/09\/26\/how-arnold-palmer-hit-a-hole-in-one-with-his-signature-drink\/"},"modified":"2016-09-26T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T19:40:00","slug":"how-arnold-palmer-hit-a-hole-in-one-with-his-signature-drink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/how-arnold-palmer-hit-a-hole-in-one-with-his-signature-drink\/","title":{"rendered":"How Arnold Palmer Hit A Hole-In-One With His Signature Drink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2016\/09\/26\/495488450\/how-arnold-palmer-hit-a-hole-in-one-with-his-signature-drink?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">Tanya Ballard Brown<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2016\/09\/26\/495488450\/how-arnold-palmer-hit-a-hole-in-one-with-his-signature-drink?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/09\/26\/2873402289_bcbe09c380_o_sq-b70b19e1b7e400c6aa135c08b0b07460aa2c03de-s800-c15.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><button>Enlarge this image<\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>A fresh Arnold Palmer, waiting to quench someone&#8217;s thirst. <strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chaparral\/2873402289\/in\/photolist-wUxC5q-dVnqEw-5nUWoM-duWWiu\" target=\"_blank\">Chapendra\/Flickr<\/a><\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong> <span><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chaparral\/2873402289\/in\/photolist-wUxC5q-dVnqEw-5nUWoM-duWWiu\" target=\"_blank\">Chapendra\/Flickr<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As we mourn the <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/09\/25\/487961394\/golfer-arnold-palmer-who-gave-new-life-to-a-staid-game-dies-at-87\">golf great Arnold Palmer<\/a>, we acknowledge another contribution he made to our culture: the tasty and refreshing iced tea and lemonade beverage that carries his name.<\/p>\n<p>Over his long career, Palmer won seven majors, 62 PGA Tour events, the Masters, the U.S. Open and the British Open. However, it was his working-class background \u2014 Palmer&#8217;s dad was a greenskeeper and golf pro \u2014 as well as his humble spirit that helped the now-iconic sports figure grow famous. So the nonalcoholic concoction that Palmer stirred up fit with his plainspoken persona.<\/p>\n<p>But how did Palmer come up with the eponymous refreshment? In a 2013 episode of ESPN&#8217;s <em>30 for 30<\/em>, the sports hero explained how it just poured out of him one afternoon in his Pennsylvania kitchen. As he recalled, he asked his wife to make a big pitcher of iced tea and put a little lemonade in it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We mixed it up and I got the solution about where I wanted it and I put the lemonade in it, and I had it for lunch,&#8221; Palmer said.<\/p>\n<p>From then on, the golfer took a thermos of the drink with him when he teed up on the links.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>[embedded content]<\/div>\n<div><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Still, it wasn&#8217;t until the 1960s that the drink became known as the &#8220;Arnold Palmer.&#8221; As the golfing champion recounted in <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/35207861\">a 2012 interview with CNBC<\/a>, one time he was at a restaurant and ordered a glass of iced tea and a glass of lemonade and mixed them together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lady in the restaurant heard me do that and ordered a tea, and she says, &#8216;I want a Palmer.&#8217; She called it by name, and I said, &#8216;Boy, maybe I should do that,&#8217; &#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 2000s, Palmer went into business with the Arizona Beverage Co., marketing the drink <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drinkarizona.com\/product\/arnold-palmer-made-with-real-sugar\">with his name and labeling it &#8220;Half &amp; Half.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But even with that label there is no consensus on the recipe, as some insist it&#8217;s actually two-thirds tea to one-third lemonade.<\/p>\n<p>While Palmer in <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/WNT\/video\/arnold-palmer-mixes-arnold-palmer-18782168\">some interviews<\/a> declined to reveal the precise amounts of tea and lemonade he prefers, he did make it clear in that CNBC interview that tea should be the star of the drink.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iced tea has the dominant side, that dominates the drink,&#8221; Palmer said. &#8220;And if it doesn&#8217;t, it isn&#8217;t really right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2016\/09\/26\/495488450\/how-arnold-palmer-hit-a-hole-in-one-with-his-signature-drink?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"How Arnold Palmer Hit A Hole-In-One With His Signature Drink\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2016\/09\/26\/495488450\/how-arnold-palmer-hit-a-hole-in-one-with-his-signature-drink?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thesalt\/2016\/09\/26\/495488450\/how-arnold-palmer-hit-a-hole-in-one-with-his-signature-drink?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/09\/26\/2873402289_bcbe09c380_o_sq-b70b19e1b7e400c6aa135c08b0b07460aa2c03de-s800-c15.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><button>Enlarge this image<\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>A fresh Arnold Palmer, waiting to quench someone&#8217;s thirst. <strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chaparral\/2873402289\/in\/photolist-wUxC5q-dVnqEw-5nUWoM-duWWiu\" target=\"_blank\">Chapendra\/Flickr<\/a><\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong> <span><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/chaparral\/2873402289\/in\/photolist-wUxC5q-dVnqEw-5nUWoM-duWWiu\" target=\"_blank\">Chapendra\/Flickr<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As we mourn the <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/09\/25\/487961394\/golfer-arnold-palmer-who-gave-new-life-to-a-staid-game-dies-at-87\">golf great Arnold Palmer<\/a>, we acknowledge another contribution he made to our culture: the tasty and refreshing iced tea and lemonade beverage that carries his name.<\/p>\n<p>Over his long career, Palmer won seven majors, 62 PGA Tour events, the Masters, the U.S. Open and the British Open. However, it was his working-class background \u2014 Palmer&#8217;s dad was a greenskeeper and golf pro \u2014 as well as his humble spirit that helped the now-iconic sports figure grow famous. So the nonalcoholic concoction that Palmer stirred up fit with his plainspoken persona.<\/p>\n<p>But how did Palmer come up with the eponymous refreshment? In a 2013 episode of ESPN&#8217;s <em>30 for 30<\/em>, the sports hero explained how it just poured out of him one afternoon in his Pennsylvania kitchen. As he recalled, he asked his wife to make a big pitcher of iced tea and put a little lemonade in it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We mixed it up and I got the solution about where I wanted it and I put the lemonade in it, and I had it for lunch,&#8221; Palmer said.<\/p>\n<p>From then on, the golfer took a thermos of the drink with him when he teed up on the links.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>[embedded content]<\/div>\n<div><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Still, it wasn&#8217;t until the 1960s that the drink became known as the &#8220;Arnold Palmer.&#8221; As the golfing champion recounted in <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/35207861\">a 2012 interview with CNBC<\/a>, one time he was at a restaurant and ordered a glass of iced tea and a glass of lemonade and mixed them together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lady in the restaurant heard me do that and ordered a tea, and she says, &#8216;I want a Palmer.&#8217; She called it by name, and I said, &#8216;Boy, maybe I should do that,&#8217; &#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the early 2000s, Palmer went into business with the Arizona Beverage Co., marketing the drink <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.drinkarizona.com\/product\/arnold-palmer-made-with-real-sugar\">with his name and labeling it &#8220;Half &amp; Half.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But even with that label there is no consensus on the recipe, as some insist it&#8217;s actually two-thirds tea to one-third lemonade.<\/p>\n<p>While Palmer in <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/WNT\/video\/arnold-palmer-mixes-arnold-palmer-18782168\">some interviews<\/a> declined to reveal the precise amounts of tea and lemonade he prefers, he did make it clear in that CNBC interview that tea should be the star of the drink.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Iced tea has the dominant side, that dominates the drink,&#8221; Palmer said. &#8220;And if it doesn&#8217;t, it isn&#8217;t really right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}