The first 50
What they say is true: time really does fly when you’re having fun. Here we chart the rise and times of Kingdom magazine
Still going strong after all these years
2003 FEBRUARY
Kingdom publisher Matthew Squire begins talks with Ed Seay of Arnold
Palmer Course Design about a publication for the members of Palmerdesigned golf courses
MARCH
Tiger Woods wins the Bay Hill Invitational to become the first PGA Tour player to win the same tournament in four consecutive years since Gene Sarazen in 1930. Woods sets a tournament record with an 11-shot winning margin that stands to this day
APRIL
Agreement is reached with Arnold Palmer and work on the inaugural
issue of Kingdom begins
MAY
IMG founder Mark McCormack
dies, aged 73
SEPTEMBER
The 100,000th birth is recorded at the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children
NOVEMBER
The first edition of Kingdom
is published [above]
2004 JANUARY
Ground is broken on the Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women
& Babies in Orlando
APRIL
Palmer makes his 50th and final playing
appearance at the Masters
JUNE
Palmer receives the presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush at the White House [right]
NOVEMBER
Palmer leads the United States to a 14-10 victory over the Rest of the World in the final UBS Cup match
at Kiawah Island
2005 JANUARY
Palmer and Kathleen ‘Kit’ Gawthorp marry at Turtle Bay Resort in Hawaii
APRIL
Tiger Woods matches Palmer’s achievement of winning the Masters four times [below] (Palmer was the
first golfer to do so, in 1964)
2006 OCTOBER
Palmer announces his retirement
from competitive golf
2007 JANUARY
The Kingdom website is launched, originally at arnieskingdom.com before
later moving to kingdom.golf Apple launches the first iPhone
MARCH
The Bay Hill Invitational is renamed the Arnold Palmer Invitational
presented by MasterCard
APRIL
Palmer serves as honorary starter at the
Masters for the first time [right]
JULY
The Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve
in Latrobe, Pa. opens [top right]
2008 JUNE
The Arnold Palmer Center for Golf History opens at the USGA
Museum in Far Hills, N.J.
NOVEMBER
Palmer hosts the inaugural Kingdom Cup, held over two days at
Bay Hill Club & Lodge Barack Obama is elected President of
the United States for the first time
2009 SEPTEMBER 10
Palmer celebrates his
80th birthday
2010 JULY
Palmer receives an honorary degree from the University of St Andrews
2011 NOVEMBER
Palmer records his 20th hole-in-one on the 163-yard 7th hole of the Charger Course at Bay Hill
2012 APRIL
Palmer, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player—The Big Three—join forces as honorary starters of the Masters for the first time
SEPTEMBER
Palmer becomes the sixth sports person in history to receive the Congressional Gold Medal
2013 JANUARY
Kingdom magazine and TMC USA recognized by the Arnie’s Army Foundation [now the Arnold & Winnie Palmer Foundation] for raising more than $500,000 for the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando. TMC USA’s fund-raising efforts continue to this day.
MARCH
At the Arnold Palmer Invitational Tiger Woods extends his own record by becoming the only player on the PGA Tour to win the same tournament eight times
NOVEMBER
Kingdom’s 10th anniversary issue is published
2014 APRIL
Palmer celebrates the 60th anniversary of his fourth Masters victory (1964) at Augusta National [above]
2015 JULY
Palmer participates in the Champion Golfers’ Challenge on the Old Course, St Andrews, on the eve of The Open, and makes an emotional farewell to the major championship he twice won [left]
2016 APRIL
Palmer serves as honorary starter at the Masters for the last time
SEPTEMBER 25
Palmer dies at the age of 87
OCTOBER 4
A Life Well Played, a celebration of the life of Arnold Palmer, is held at the St. Vincent Basilica, Latrobe
NOVEMBER
The Tribute edition of Kingdom is published [left]
2017 JANUARY
Donald Trump is sworn in as President of the United States
MARCH
A bronze statue of Palmer is unveiled at Bay Hill, located
between the first and 10th tees of the tournament course, ahead of the Arnold Palmer Invitational
2018 MARCH
Bay Hill stages the Arnold Palmer Invitational for the 40th time and Rory McIlroy wins [left]
JULY
Women join men for the first time in the Arnold Palmer Cup, for college golfers, at the famous
Evian Resort in Switzerland
2019 APRIL
Tiger Woods wins his 15th major title at the Masters, 11 years after claiming his 14th major at the
2008 U.S. Open
MAY
Brooks Koepka completes an astonishing quartet of major victories at the PGA Championship. It is Koepka’s second PGA Championship title in as many years, following a pair of U.S. Open triumphs in 2017 & 2018
2020 NOVEMBER
The 50th edition of Kingdom
is published [left]