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JULY 14, 2011
Golfers Bask in the Summer of Jack
By JASON GAY
Have a second? Want to introduce you to the hot new sensation in pro golf. He's had a few quiet years, but he's never fallen out of fashion. He's hit some memorable shots; he's even won a few tournaments you may have heard of. Check out his easygoing style?not even Mr. Rogers looked sharper in a sweater. And that blond hair?it still makes the teenagers go goo-goo!
Associated Press
Jack Nicklaus hits a ball from the rough during the 1966 British Open.
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Get ready for...Jack Nicklaus.
Oh right: you've already been introduced. You go back decades. It's Jack! He's an all-timer of the all-timers, the Golden Bear of Columbus, Ohio who won 18 majors including the 1986 Masters at an age better suited for reading Ludlum in a hammock. A man who carried on the mantle passed by Bobby Jones and Ben Hogan and his great rival, Arnold Palmer; who helped elevate golf to new heights of visibility and prosperity.
Nicklaus is 71 years old, and hasn't played a professional round since 2005, when he concluded his glorious career at the British Open at St. Andrews. But lately, there's been a conspicuous Jack renaissance, a re-appreciation. Nicklaus is stirring headlines, getting shout-outs in interviews, whispering advice to the top new players in the game. Golf may have a nascent superstar in the 22-year-old Rory McIlroy?who leads the field as the British Open begins Thursday at Royal St. George's in Sandwich, England?but this feels like the Summer of Jack.
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpscXioFMEU"]Nicklaus: Tiger's Not Going Away - YouTube[/ame]
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Golf | Memorial Tournament: Stricker, Nicklaus chat at luncheon
By Bob Baptist
The Columbus Dispatch Tuesday April 17, 2012
Kyle Robertson | DISPATCH
As golf great Jack Nicklaus looks on, his wife, Barbara, hugs Beau Hefner, 5, after awarding him the Nicklaus Youth Spirit Award at the second annual Legends Luncheon. Yesterday’s event in the Ohio Union on the Ohio State campus raised $275,000 for the Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Foundation and Nationwide Children’s Hospital alliance. Beau has battled leukemia for eight months, and the award recognizes his determination and unwavering optimism. Also yesterday, the U.S. House recommended that Jack Nicklaus receive the Congressional Gold Medal for his humanitarian work.
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZAYnSB1Hws"]The Big Show Interview with Jack Nicklaus on 97.1 The Fan - YouTube[/ame]
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This is one thing Congress has gottten right.......
Jack Nicklaus to receive honor
WASHINGTON -- The House has voted to bestow the Congressional Gold Medal on golfing great Jack Nicklaus.
Nicklaus was cited for his golfing achievements, including a record 18 major championships, and his humanitarian work. Nicklaus heads the Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation and has raised more than $12 million to support pediatric health services.
The Congressional Gold Medal is awarded to prominent military leaders, public servants, athletes and artists. It was last given in 2010 to Japanese-American World War II veterans. Rep. Joe Baca, D-Calif., sponsored the bill.
Nicklaus golfing contemporary Arnold Palmer received the award in 2009. The legislation now goes to the Senate for a vote.
http://espn.go.com/golf/story/_/id/7821664/house-votes-award-gold-medal-jack-nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus to receive honor
WASHINGTON -- The House has voted to bestow the Congressional Gold Medal on golfing great Jack Nicklaus.
Nicklaus was cited for his golfing achievements, including a record 18 major championships, and his humanitarian work. Nicklaus heads the Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation and has raised more than $12 million to support pediatric health services.
The Congressional Gold Medal is awarded to prominent military leaders, public servants, athletes and artists. It was last given in 2010 to Japanese-American World War II veterans. Rep. Joe Baca, D-Calif., sponsored the bill.
Nicklaus golfing contemporary Arnold Palmer received the award in 2009. The legislation now goes to the Senate for a vote.
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnX7McCWHH4"]Jack Nicklaus Memorial Press Conference - YouTube[/ame]
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No. 1 Player of All Time: Jack Nicklaus
By Connell Barrett, Editor-at-Large, GOLF Magazine
Published: Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Walter Iooss Jr./SI
ONE-DERFUL: You voted Jack the greatest player of all time!
There was no World Golf Ranking until 1986, when his prime was behind him, so Jack Nicklaus never officially claimed the top spot. But that's okay. He can settle for the honor of No. 1 Player of All Time, according to more than 3,000 votes cast on Golf.com.
Nicklaus reached sublime heights as a player, with 18 major wins. And the father of five did it as the consummate family man. (One afternoon in the late 1970s, he jetted from Ohio to Florida to catch one of his sons' high school football games, then flew back for the third round of the World Series of Golf.) Since bidding farewell to competitive play in 2005, Nicklaus has embraced the role of golf's No. 1 Ambassador, designing dozens of courses and growing the game in far-flung places like China and the former Soviet Union; he also played a pivotal role in the campaign to make golf an Olympic sport in 2016. Not to mention that everyone from Rory McIlroy to Ernie Els seeks his counsel.
Although he's spent his adult life in the spotlight, were you aware of the 72-year-old icon's passion for tennis? Or that he keeps bugging Arnold Palmer to go fishing? Or that he came this close to throwing away a legendary career to become...a pharmacist? You may think you know the Golden Bear, but as this candid conversation shows, you don't know Jack.
Jack, our readers named you the No. 1 player of all time. Not bad for an Ohio kid who almost became a pharmacist.
I thank them for their vote of confidence. My record [18 major wins, 73 Tour wins], and what I did over time and against my competition, it's generally determined and voted on by other people, like your readers. And that's very nice. But all I ever wanted was to be the best I could be.
You won majors in three different decades. Your first win was the 1962 U.S. Open, and your last was the 1986 Masters. If 1962 Jack played 1986 Jack in match play, who would win?
That's hard to answer, because in '86 I don't know what I would have played like the week after I won the Masters. Now, if you take Jack from 1980 vs. Jack from 1962, I would say '80 Jack wins because he would be more experienced, a better player. I was more powerful in '62. I think my nerves would not have been much different year to year -- I always had pretty good nerves. But my experience in 1980 was far greater than it was in 1962.
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Read more: http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/jack-nicklaus-no-1-player-all-time#ixzz251yrjWTF
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Fifty years ago, big-hitting Jack Nicklaus won his first of six green jackets
By Connell Barrett, Editor-at-Large, GOLF Magazine
Published: Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Jack Nicklaus wins 1963 Masters at Augusta National
James Drake/SI
Towering tee shots helped the young Bear grab his first coat at Augusta National.
Shortly before Jack Nicklaus walked out of the Augusta National clubhouse for the final round of the 1963 Masters, a friend asked the 54-hole leader, "How do you feel today, Jack? Big and strong?"
"Yeah, big and strong and tough and mean," Nicklaus replied.
The well-mannered 23-year-old was laughing when he said it, but that's how he played Augusta that week: ripping drives 40 yards past his rivals, routinely reaching par 5s in two, and reading greens as though they'd come with Cliffs Notes. By day's end, Nicklaus had withstood a charge from a 50-year-old Sam Snead to win his first green jacket and his second major, having defeated Arnold Palmer 10 months earlier in a U.S. Open playoff . The young Bear had his first coat, establishing himself as his era's player to beat. His dominance was "as overwhelming and inevitable as nightfall," Alfred Wright wrote in Sports Illustrated. "He is obviously too strong, too determined, too skillful to be sidetracked or delayed."
Fifty years later, Nicklaus has few memories from his maiden Masters win. What stands out is the soggy third round that taught him the value of tenacity. "I played with Mike Souchak, who was leading by 1, and it was pouring rain," recalls Nicklaus, 73. "No one thought we were gonna finish." Back then, if inclement weather canceled the day's play, "you washed out the whole round," Nicklaus says. "But they didn't call it. At the 18th green, I looked at the leaderboard, and I saw several 1s and 2s. I'm color-blind, so I said to my caddie, Willie Peterson, 'How many of those numbers are red?' He said, 'Just you, boss.'" Nicklaus was leading, at 2-under. "That surprised me, because all I did was persevere, and I ended up in the lead. Souchak shot a 79 because he didn't think we'd finish. I shot 74, which is not exactly tearing up the course, but to learn that patience at 23 was something I was proud of."
Winning also taught Nicklaus how best to prepare for a major, though the lesson didn't sink in right away. "In 1962, I played [the Greater Greensboro Open] the week before and didn't play well at the Masters," he says. "In '63, I didn't go to Greensboro and I won the Masters." He would repeat the pattern in the coming years, falling short at Augusta when he played the week prior (1964) and grabbing the green jacket when he used that week to practice on the course (1965 and '66). "Nothing against Greensboro, but I figured out that going to a course early is essential if you want to consistently win big championships."
Young Jack had another edge: brute strength. "I had a power advantage over other players, and that was a tremendous advantage to have at Augusta, where you could just whale on it. And I had the ability to add another 30, 40 yards if I needed it. I took advantage of my power advantage more there than I did on any other course."
A half century and five more green jackets later, Nicklaus is asked if the Masters is his favorite major. "My national championship is No. 1, but the Masters is very special?like Wimbledon is to tennis. I always had a love affair with Augusta, and when you love something, you play pretty well."
Read more: http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/j...s-50-years-ago-augusta-national#ixzz2NnlUkYzv
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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
Jack Nicklaus a switch-hitting catcher?
Jack Nicklaus told Golf Digest that if he hadn't gotten into golf, he would've been a switch-hitting catcher: "If I never had gotten into golf, I think I'd have been a baseball player. My first love was baseball. I was a catcher. I was a good, strong hitter -- a switch hitter -- with a good arm. But baseball was a sport where I needed someone else to throw the ball back, and you're waiting on a dusty field for other kids to show up. Heck, I could go to the golf course and practice whenever I wanted to practice, and I didn't have to rely on someone else. That's what ran me out of baseball."
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