 He also won the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998, and in 1974 was one of the 13 original inductees into the World Golf Hall of Fame.Palmer was born to Doris (Morrison) and Milfred Jerome "Deacon" Palmer (1905–1976) in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, a working-class steel mill town.He learned golf from his father, who had suffered from polio at a young age and was head professional and greenskeeper at Latrobe Country Club, which allowed young Palmer to accompany his father as he maintained the course.