(RNN) – Golfing legend Arnold Palmer, 87, died Sunday in Pittsburgh, according to the United States Golf Association.

Arnold Palmer, one of the greatest in the history of golf and known as The King,

Born in Pennsylvania in 1929, Palmer came by the game naturally as the son of a golf pro and greenskeeper who cut down some clubs and gave his son his first swing at the game.

“Hit it hard, boy,” Palmer recalled his dad saying. “Go find it and hit it hard again.”

Palmer broke 100 by the time he was 8 years old and the makings of a Hall-of-Fame career began to fall into place.