Inducted, 2002

Arlen Peacock and the Utah State Amateur Championship are good friends. Peacock not only won the event twice, but was runner-up once, medallist once, advanced to match play 13 times, and was semifinalist five times. As he advanced in years he moved from the playing side of the tournament to the administrative side and in that capacity served as tournament chairman twice and the rules chairman five times.

He served on the Board of Directors of the Utah Golf Association for nine years, including two years as the UGA President in 1996 and 1997.

While he has a remarkable record as a player and an administrator, he is best known as Utah's Gentleman Golfer. He is a superlative competitor and sportsman at the same time and admired throughout the state by thousands of golfers for his gracious manner.

As a player he was runner-up at the Utah State Am in 1968 to Tom Christensen. At that time he was 35 years old and the news media thought that because of his age it was his last chance to win the title. But Arlen only got better.

In 1972 he proved the pundits wrong by claiming the championship at Patio Springs, now known as Wolf Creek Resort. In that tournament he edged Jimmy Blair in the semifinals and downed Steve Sharp in the finals, 2-up. Five years later, at 44, he won the title again, this time at Logan Golf and Country Club, and against a foe who would become one of Utah's most famous golfers, Jay Don Blake. Blake was only 18 at the time and was still learning the game and one of his lessons was from Peacock who ran off a skein of six straight birdies from the 16th through the 21st holes to jump to a 5-up lead. The six straight birdies remains a Utah State Am record. Peacock won the match, 7 and 5.

That State Am championship earned Arlen his most memorable golfing experience as it resulted in an invitation to play in a special exhibition match at The Country Club with the world's most famous golfing duo, Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus. Joining them was another two-time State Am champion, Don Branca.

He also won many other amateur tournaments throughout the state, participated in many USGA national tournaments, and was well known as a four-ball partner with his cousin Dick Peacock. He represented Utah in the Pacific Coast Amateur at Pebble Beach and was a PCA trustee for seven years. He was both a player and captain for the Utah Shootout Team in the matches with Arizona.

In addition to golf, he was also an outstanding in baseball and basketball. He played professional baseball in the New York Yankee chain in Idaho and Georgia as a pitcher, and was an outstanding player in the Utah semi-pro circles. He was inducted into the Army in 1952 and was stationed in Germany where he played on the 19th Group Battalion basketball team in the USARA finals.

He was the city circulation manager for the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News for 38 years and was a surgical tech at the LDS Hospital for 13 years. He was also chairman of the NAC Employees Credit Union for 25 years.

He was born August 7, 1932, in Salt Lake City, graduated from South High in 1950, attended the University of Utah and graduated from Radio Institute Electronics School in 1955. He married his childhood sweetheart, Mary Clark, and they have three children, Craig, Kurt, and Brent, and Kyle (deceased after three days).