In The 1970s, Arnold Palmer Helped Start The Stratton Mountain Golf Academy

Vermont Public | By Mitch Wertlieb,

Published September 30, 2016 at 10:26 AM EDT

When golf legend Arnold Palmer died last Sunday, tributes and remembrances poured in from around the world. The loss hit home especially hard in places like Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where Palmer lived after retirement, and from locations like Augusta, Georgia where "The King," as he was known in the golf world, won four Masters tournaments over his amazing career.

One place you might not immediately think of in relation to Arnold Palmer is Vermont, but there is a connection.

Palmer founded the golf academy at the Stratton Mountain resort and use to visit the school. VPR spoke with Kimet Hand, the registrar at the Arnold Palmer Golf Academy in the early 1970s.

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Mitch Wertlieb

A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.

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