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FILE - Arnold Palmer, center, is seen with his daughters, Peggy Palmer, left, of Durham, N.C., and Amy Saunders, of Orlando, Fla., inside the barn of the Winnie Palmer Nature Reserve, in Latrobe, Pa., during the dedication of the reserve June, 30, 2007. ( Kim Stepinsky/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review via AP, File)

Arnold Palmer's daughter reacts to Donald Trump's references to her father

One of the late golf legend Arnold Palmer's daughters calls Donald Trump’s references to her father’s genitalia "a poor choice of approaches” to honoring his memory

By MEG KINNARD
Published - Oct 21, 2024, 07:32 AM ET
Last Updated - Dec 16, 2024, 06:10 PM EST

One of the late golf legend Arnold Palmer's daughters calls Donald Trump's references to her father's genitalia “a poor choice of approaches" to honoring his memory, adding that she wasn't upset by the remarks.

“There’s nothing much to say. I’m not really upset,” Peg Palmer Wears, 68, told The Associated Press in an interview on Sunday. "I think it was a poor choice of approaches to remembering my father, but what are you going to do?”

On Saturday in Latrobe, Pennsylvania — the city where Palmer was born in 1929 and learned to golf from his father — Trump kicked off his rally in the campaign's closing weeks with a detailed, 12-minute story about Palmer that included an anecdote about what Palmer looked like in the showers.

“When he took the showers with other pros, they came out of there. They said, ‘Oh my God. That’s unbelievable,’” Trump said with a laugh. “I had to say. We have women that are highly sophisticated here, but they used to look at Arnold as a man.”

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