Ranking Sacramento's best golfers ever – No. 1's a gimme, but then ... - Sacramento Bee
The list is not necessarily in order of most accomplished, although it’s hard to deny that a player is who his/her scorecard most often says he/she is. How does brilliance over a short period rate against consistency at a high level for a long time. “Verne Callison said he would be a 5 handicap if not for tournament golf,” said Bill Rider, a local golf historian of sorts, of our list’s No. 2 golfer. Callison won two United States Golf Association titles and the California State Fair Amateur a record seven times when those events had greater importance than they do today and before it made financial sense for most to pursue pro golf. Arinno was a local teenage sensation who’s still shooting in the 60s at age 68. Top-level tour pros, as the story goes, used to stop behind Arinno as he hit balls on the driving range, marveling at his fluid swing during his brief forays to the... Yet he had just one top-10 finish in 40 combined tournaments at golf’s highest levels. Some locals rate Arinno among the area’s very best ever. Taylor, whose swing featured an unorthodox wrist-cocking motion, used to knock heads in the late 1960s and early ’70s with Arinno and other top area players in weekday money games at Arbuckle, Sunset Whitney and El Dorado Hills. Source: www.sacbee.com
