ORLANDO, Fla. — Arnold Palmer’s charisma and accessibility went together like iced tea and lemonade, so it was not hard to get an audience with the King. If Jason Day had not held on to win the Arnold Palmer Invitational last year, he could have visited Palmer in his office in the Bay Hill clubhouse on another day.
But for Day, a student of golf history, it meant everything to have an audience with Palmer on the 18th green at the end of play that Sunday, the way Tiger Woods and relatively few others had over the years.