On the 50th anniversary of The Players Championship, one way to commemorate how golf has changed is to take a deep dive into our Golf Digest Archive to see how golfers have doubled as pitchmen over the years.
As long as golfers have been paid to play, we’ve seen them in ads in everything from golf clubs to golf clothes to luxury automobiles. Some of the greats even carry over from decade to decade because of their massive imprint in the game.
Throughout this journey of going through the archived magazines, I discovered a few trends. One was Arnold Palmer, who was appeared in advertisements in almost every decade. Different products were also more popular at certain times. The 1990s were almo
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