Arnold Palmer putter

The Wilson Arnold Palmer line begins in 1962 with two closely related releases carrying Palmer's name: the Wilson Arnold Palmer putter and the Wilson Designed By Arnold Palmer putter. Both share the same year on record, and the maker's page, via wilson8802.blogspot.com, treats them as a pair worth distinguishing from what came later rather than from each other.

That same source lists the Designed By Arnold Palmer edition as produced across 1962 to 1963, giving this half of the pair a short window that extends just past its debut year. What the record is careful to state, for both the 1962 putter and its Designed By counterpart, is that neither should be read as identical to the Wilson 8802 as it appeared in 1964 or in later vintage runs. That distinction is made twice, once for each release, which suggests it mattered to whoever kept these notes: these are Palmer-era originals, not to be folded into the 8802 lineage that followed.

Taken together, the two releases read less as a line stretching across decades and more as a tight cluster at a single moment, 1962 into 1963, before the naming and design language shifted toward the 8802. Anyone working from this record should treat the "Arnold Palmer" name here as belonging to that early moment specifically, not to the models that came after it.