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Jack "The Golden Bear" Nicklaus (18 Time Professional Major Champion)

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Hello my name is Jack: Nicklaus opens up on grandkids, Ohio State's mistake, his push for 12-hole PGA rounds & cancer
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By Chris Baldwin
October 19th, 2010

The greatest golfer in history wears a standard-issue name tag, same as everyone else at the cocktail reception. It reads "Jack" in big type with the "Jack Nicklaus" underneath, as if anyone needs to be reminded this is the man who won 18 majors and not some retired computer programmer from Pearland.

That's Jack though. If everyone else is sporting a name tag, darn if he's going to be the one to rock the boat. Or the fancy hor d'oeuvres plates at Tony's. He's in a side room of Houston's institution for River Oaks socialites and the city's most influential, but this Jack is anything but caught up in his own iconic power.

Try giving Michael Jordan a name tag at an event today and see what he does. Try putting one on Tiger Woods 20 years from now ... just be sure to duck the vile speeding your way.

Sports legends don't conform to normalcy. They don't willingly place themselves on the same level as the crowd ? even if this particular crowd is a very select, small group of major donors to University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, the No. 1-rated cancer hospital in the United States. They don't do freaking name tags.

Only Jack Nicklaus is, making it seem like the most regular thing in the world. Later in his approximately 36 hours in Houston, Nicklaus takes the stage in a giant ballroom at the Hilton Americas-Houston with Jim Nantz and ruminates on golf today in M.D. Anderson's "A Conversation With a Living Legend" ? a luncheon-centered fundraiser that will rack up $470,000 for the hospital ? for a packed crowd. But it's this quieter event on Monday night, when Jack is most apparent.

"We've got a middle school volleyball game to get to on Tuesday night," Nicklaus says. And the man who still rules golf as a course designer/influencer/savant (the 70-year-old Nicklaus has been named the Most Powerful Person in Golf for six straight years by Golf Inc. magazine) isn't kidding. Long before the last clap is heard at the luncheon Tuesday afternoon, Nicklaus is plotting a way to get the wheels on his private jet back on the ground of a Palm Beach, Fla. runway as quick as he can.
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu1_5M2aB-Y"]YouTube - JACK NICKLAUS ON TIGER WOOD[/ame]
 
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Nicklaus and Watson rise to the occasion yet again.
By Vartan Kupelian, PGATOUR.COM Correspondent

http://www.pgatour.com/2011/s/02/02/kupelian_insider/


There are very few people in this world that I would just absolutely love to meet......Jack is one of those people. A true ambassador for the game of golf and The Ohio State University.
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Gotta love Jack rocking the red sweater vest in that pic . . .
 
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYEPBLh3MbU"]YouTube - Jack Nicklaus: Five Of Six[/ame]

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Nicklaus' '86 charge unmatched
One amazing finish
Friday, April 01, 2011
By John Boyette | Sports Editor

With Amen Corner, the allure of possible eagles on the two par-5s, stern finishing holes and limited television coverage, Masters Tournament fans have been conditioned to believe that the tournament, and the excitement, doesn't truly start until the final groups reach the 10th tee Sunday afternoon.

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Jack Nicklaus celebrates as he watches his putt drop for a birdie on the 17th hole at the Augusta National on April 13, 1986. The shot gave him the lead and ultimately his 6th Masters title. (File/Staff)

It's not true.

Since Jack Nicklaus roared from behind to win the 1986 Masters with a closing 30 on Augusta National Golf Club's final nine, no one has matched the Golden Bear's exceptional charge, which featured an eagle and five birdies. Nicklaus' charge set the standard, and expectations, for the Sunday finish.

The closest has been Phil Mickelson, who made five birdies en route to 31 in his first Masters victory in 2004. In his third Masters win, in 2010, Mickelson made four birdies to shoot 32 on the inward nine.

Most golfers who are in or near the lead tend to play the first nine with a bit more caution, Mickelson said.

"There's a lot more birdie holes on the back nine than there are the front," Mickelson said after his 2010 win. "The front, they are a lot tougher pin positions and more severe greens, and you have to be careful.

"If I can make the turn at under par, I feel like there's a 3- or 4-under-par round on the back."

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http://www.augusta.com/stories/2011/04/01/mas_611048.shtml

25 years later, Jack Nicklaus' final triumph at Masters burns vivid
1986 Masters victory, at age 46, capped iconic legacy
By Jeff Shain, Orlando Sentinel
April 2, 2011

The query began innocent enough. After all, it's been a quarter-century.

If someone were to ask what club you hit at No. 17?

Jack Nicklaus didn't even wait for the question to finish. "Pitching wedge, 110 yards," he said.

In quick fashion, Nicklaus recounted every club selection made over his final seven holes of the 1986 Masters. "But outside of that, I can't remember," he concluded, drawing laughs from the assembled media.

Hey, nobody else recalls much of that Sunday front nine. The back nine, though, remains vividly etched in millions of memories.

For those who cared even the slightest about golf, they remember where they were when the Golden Bear charged one more time, winning his sixth green jacket at age 46.

"It was basically a miracle happening in front of our eyes," recalled Ernie Els, then a 16-year-old who had to talk his parents into staying up past his bedtime in South Africa.

"To be the best and then for many years not be the best ? and then come out of the woodwork and show guys that, 'Hey, I'm the best out here.' That was quite something."

It had been six years since Nicklaus had won a major championship, two years since he'd won any PGA Tour stop. A prominent Atlanta sportswriter summed up the aging legend's chances as "done, gone."

That's what made Nicklaus' record-tying 30 on the back nine so riveting.

"One of the greatest back nines you've ever seen," recalled Tiger Woods, a mere cub of 10 at the time. It also led to Nicklaus' 18th win in a major ? a record that only Woods, with 14 majors, approaches.

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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/sports/golf/os-masters-jack-nicklaus-0403-20110402,0,623093.story
 
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The Bear's last big roar
25 years ago, Nicklaus stunned the golf world by seizing a Masters he was 'too old' to win
Sunday, April 3, 2011
By Rob Oller
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

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"The noise level was deafening...It's almost like you could hear the golfing gods cheering." -- Sandy Lyle, Nicklaus' playing partner that day.
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The roars began in the hollows of Augusta National Golf Club, climbed toward the clubhouse and kept on going. Down Magnolia Lane. Past the gravel parking lots. Across the Georgia state line. Through Texas, California and into Ohio.

A gallery numbering in the millions raised the decibel level of an entire nation as golf fans watching at home called friends.

"Are you watching this? Can you believe it?"

Jack Nicklaus was winning the 1986 Masters. At age 46.

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http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/sports/stories/2011/04/03/the-bears-last-big-roar.html?sid=101
 
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Nicklaus' sixth green jacket was his best
Robert Lusetich
Updated Apr 5, 2011
AUGUSTA, Ga.

It will be remembered as the greatest Masters.

Twenty-five years ago this week, in the 50th edition of golf?s rite of spring, Jack Nicklaus defied all the odds to win his sixth, and last, green jacket.

The triumph will live forever, but not just because the Golden Bear closed with six birdies and an eagle over the final 10 holes.

Numbers on a scorecard wasn?t what reduced seasoned broadcasters Pat Summerall and Ken Venturi to tears on the afternoon of April 13, 1986.

It was the grander context, the magnitude of what it stood for, that spoke to us all.

Who among us can?t relate to a man trying to recapture his spring in his autumn years?

Nicklaus arrived at Augusta National with long shadows stretching across a magnificent career.

He was 46, more than a decade removed from his last victory at the National, and competing in an era where, unlike now, technology offered no relief to professionals in their twilight.

?Forty-six doesn't resonate today as that bad, simply because of equipment,? he said recently. ?But in those days, I was playing wood driver, playing a wound golf ball.

?You didn't reduce a golf course to nothing like you can today.?

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http://msn.foxsports.com/golf/story/Jack-nicklaus-sixth-green-jacket-was-his-best-040311

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHkQ8jfSt5g"]YouTube - Jack Nicklaus Masters 1986[/ame]
 
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Come on, Jackson!
By Rick Reilly
ESPN.com

The scariest question I ever had to ask was 25 years ago, on the Wednesday of what would become the most unforgettable Masters week ever.

I was greener than an Augusta fairway then. I was 28 and had never covered a Masters, never written golf for Sports Illustrated and never met my idol, Jack Nicklaus.

Nicklaus meant more to me than golf. He was one of the few people I could talk to my dad about. For most of my first 20 years, the two things my dad did best were booze and golf. He was scratch at both. Sunday mornings, though, came down mean and hungover. You'd tiptoe until you heard him leave for the course.

But on one Sunday in April, he wouldn't go play golf. He'd watch the back nine of the Masters. And I could sit there and watch it with him.

Tribute To Jack

ESPN "Yes Sir: Jack Nicklaus and the '86 Masters" is a documentary, narrated by Jack's son and caddie Jackie, that looks back at one of the most memorable events in golf history. Watch preview

His favorite player was Jack. So my favorite player was Jack. He wore yellow shirts because Jack wore yellow shirts. We might not have one single other thing to talk about, but we could always talk Jack. "C'mon, Jackson!" he'd coo to the TV. Now here I was having to ask our hero the unthinkable. Shaking, I stopped him just outside the Champions Locker Room in the Augusta National clubhouse.

"Uh, Mr. Nicklaus, we hear you're broke."

Stare. Blink. Gulp.

Nicklaus took me into that sacred room and explained that he wasn't really broke. He was just overextended on some golf-course projects.

That figured. Nicklaus was 46 and trying to fit golf in as a hobby between business and kids. In seven tournaments that year, he'd made $4,404. He was 160th on the money list.

He hadn't won a major in six years. The Golden Bear was rusted through. If anything, it seemed as if he had given up. He wasn't even using his usual Augusta caddie, Willie Peterson. Instead, he was using his 24-year-old son, Jackie.

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJOIrt1vQIA"]YouTube - Where were you when Jack won in '86?[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_tv4vOxdg4"]YouTube - Masters Moments: Nicklaus Becomes Youngest Champion[/ame]
 
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I am a huge Nicklaus fan. I have been trying to find a print of Jack during his Ohio State days or of him dotting the "i". Anyone know where I can find such a print. It doesn't have to be framed, I can have that done later.
 
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Today marks the 25th anniversary of Jack Nicklaus' historic 1986 victory at the Masters. In this video, the Golden Bear birdies the 17th hole to take the lead in the final round and, at age 46, won his sixth Masters.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqisX1ESLT8"]YouTube - Jack Nicklaus birdies 17th for lead - 1986 Masters[/ame]
 
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