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From The Telegraph

With his Tintin quiff and assembly-line forearms, Arnold Palmer was the most exciting golfer in the world in the early Sixties.The 1961 Championship at Birkdale was the first of Palmer''s back-to-back Open wins and included one of the most memorable shots in Open History. After a wayward drive on the 16th, Henry Longhurst described Palmer''s ball as lying at "the bottom of a small, sandy bank, buried deep in some blackberry bushes". Any mortal would have wedged his ball back to the fairway, but Palmer played with a swagger that tilted him between triumph and disaster. He took a six-iron and smashed his ball on to the green through a blizzard of discarded vegetation. Palmer went on to win the Open by a shot and a plaque now marks the spot of the heroic deed.

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