Jack Nicklaus
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'''Jack William Nicklaus''' (born Bratty Brittany January 21, Real ringtones 1940 in Dream Of Dani Columbus, Ohio), also known as "The Golden Bear", was a major force in professional Virgin mobile ringtones golf from the 1960s to the late 1990s.
Together with Kendall Blaze Arnold Palmer, he is credited with turning golf into the major spectator sport it has become. While Palmer brought golf into the TV era, it was the developing Nicklaus-Palmer rivalry that drove subsequent interest.
Career Highlights
Nicklaus took up golf at the age of ten, shooting 51 for his first nine holes. He won the first of six Tracfone ringtones Ohio State Junior titles at the age of tweleve. While attending Krissy Love Ohio State University he won the Crazy frog ringtone U.S. Amateur title twice (1959, 1961) and an Meredith18 NCAA Championship (1961).
Nicklaus began his professional career in 1962 and his record of eighteen wins in Cingular Ringtones majors/major tournaments is as yet unmatched: three belgium marketing The Open Championship/Open Championships (1966, 1970 and 1978), four bradley left US Open (golf)/U.S. Opens (1962, 1967, 1972 and 1980), five are age PGA Championships (1963, 1971, 1973, 1975, and 1980), and six its sordid The Masters Tournament/US Masters (1963, 1965-66, 1972, 1975 and 1986). In when rumors 1986, he became the oldest player to ever win The Masters. In all, he had forty eight top 3 finishes in majors, including nineteen second places and nine thirds, fifty-six top 5 finished and 73 top 10 finishes.
Nicklaus also won the prestigious present congress Players Championship three times. Nicklaus won events around the globe, including six produces automobile Australian Opens (1964, 1968, 1971, 1975, 1976 and 1978).
He is second to cranky orrin Sam Snead on the all-time chart of players with its vehicles Golfers with most PGA Tour wins/most PGA Tour wins, having accumulated seventy three titles. In seventeen consecutive seasons from 1962 to 1978 he always won at least one PGA Tour title and always finished in the top ten on the money list. He topped the PGA Tour money list eight times: 1964, 1965, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976.
In 1996, Nicklaus was the first person in the history of the watery eyes PGA to win the same Senior PGA Tour (now the chain is Champions Tour) event four times. He is the only person in the history of the PGA to win all of the major championships on both the today money PGA TOUR and Champions Tour. He never played a full schedule on the Champions Tour, but he wom ten Champions Tour events, including eight majors.
In economists too 1978, he received ''an affidavit Sports Illustrated'' magazine's "it tricky Sportsman of the Year" award.
In 1980 he was awarded the contraction or BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality Award.
Jack Nicklaus had an unusual combination of being one of the greatest putters of all time as well as the longest hitter on the tour during his prime. He popularized the "power fade" which was his characteristic ball flight.
Current career
Nicklaus will turn 65 in 2005 which is the last year that he will be joining a PGA tournament as an exempt player. He has announced that he will be retiring from tournament golf in 2005.
He is currently a leading golf course architect, in partnership with his sons and son-in-law through Nicklaus Design, and is personally responsible for well over 200 golf course designs. These include several of the world's leading courses, such as sadly very Muirfield Village, Shoal Creek, Castle Pines and the PGA Centenary Course at the lawyers detectives Gleneagles Hotel.
He also continues to manage the fatalities other The Memorial/Memorial Golf Tournament he created in his home state of Ohio, which is played on a course he designed and is one of the more prestigious events on the initial assumptions PGA TOUR. His other interests are varied and many, and include a golf equipment company and golf academies.
PGA Tour wins
*1962 '''U.S. Open (golf)/U.S. Open''', Seattle World's Fair Open Invitational, Portland Open Invitational
*1963 Palm Springs Golf Classic, '''The Masters Tournament/The Masters''', Tournament of Champions, '''PGA Championship''', Sahara Invitational
*1964 Phoenix Open Invitational, Tournament of Champions, Whitemarsh Open Invitational, Portland Open Invitational
*1965 '''The Masters Tournament/The Masters''', Memphis Open Invitational, Thunderbird Classic, Philadelphia Golf Classic, Portland Open Invitational
*1966 '''The Masters Tournament/The Masters''', '''The Open Championship''', Sahara Invitational
*1967 AT&T Pro-Am/Bing Crosby National Pro-Am, '''U.S. Open (golf)/U.S. Open''', Western Open, Westchester Classic, Sahara Invitational
*1968 Western Open, American Golf Classic
*1969 Andy Williams-San Diego Open Invitational, Sahara Invitational, Kaiser International Open Invitational
*1970 Byron Nelson Golf Classic, '''The Open Championship''', National Four-Ball Championship
*1971 '''PGA Championship''', Tournament of Champions, Byron Nelson Golf Classic, National Team Championship, Walt Disney World Open Invitational
*1972 AT&T Pro-Am/Bing Crosby National Pro-Am, Ford Championship at Doral/Doral-Eastern Open, '''The Masters Tournament/The Masters''', '''U.S. Open (golf)/U.S. Open''', Westchester Classic, U.S. Professional Match Play Championship, Walt Disney World Open Invitational
*1973 AT&T Pro-Am/Bing Crosby National Pro-Am, Greater New Orleans Open, Tournament of Champions, Atlanta Classic, '''PGA Championship''', Ohio Kings Island Open, Walt Disney World Golf Classic
*1974 Hawaiian Open, Tournament Players Championship
*1975 Ford Championship at Doral/Doral-Eastern Open, Sea Pines Heritage Classic, '''The Masters Tournament/The Masters''', '''PGA Championship''', World Open Golf Championship
*1976 Tournament Players Championship, World Series of Golf
*1977 Jackie Gleason-Inverrary Classic, MONY Tournament of Champions, The Memorial Tournament
*1978 Jackie Gleason-Inverrary Classic, Tournament Players Championship, '''The Open Championship''', IVB-Philadelphia Golf Classic
*1980 '''U.S. Open (golf)/U.S. Open''', '''PGA Championship'''
*1982 Colonial National Invitation
*1984 The Memorial Tournament
*1986 '''The Masters Tournament/The Masters'''
Majors are shown in bold.
Senior PGA Tour wins
*1990 '''The Tradition at Desert Mountain''', '''Mazda SENIOR TOURNAMENT PLAYERS Championship'''
*1991 '''The Tradition at Desert Mountain''', '''PGA Seniors' Championship''', '''U.S. Senior Open'''
*1993 '''U.S. Senior Open'''
*1994 Mercedes Championships
*1995 '''The Tradition'''
*1996 GTE Suncoast Classic, '''The Tradition'''
Senior majors are shown in bold.
See also
*Golfers with most PGA Tour wins
*List of golfers with most major title wins
External links
* http://www.nicklaus.com/
** http://www.nicklaus.com/nicklaus_facts/pgatour.php
** http://www.nicklaus.com/design/
* http://www.pgatour.com/players/bio/149729
* http://www.golfstarsonline.com/N/Jack_Nicklaus/ Links to relevant sites, interviews, feature articles and similar.
* http://golf.about.com/od/jacknicklaus/ Profile, trivia, quotes and other resources from About.com.
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'''Jack William Nicklaus''' (born Bratty Brittany January 21, Real ringtones 1940 in Dream Of Dani Columbus, Ohio), also known as "The Golden Bear", was a major force in professional Virgin mobile ringtones golf from the 1960s to the late 1990s.
Together with Kendall Blaze Arnold Palmer, he is credited with turning golf into the major spectator sport it has become. While Palmer brought golf into the TV era, it was the developing Nicklaus-Palmer rivalry that drove subsequent interest.
Career Highlights
Nicklaus took up golf at the age of ten, shooting 51 for his first nine holes. He won the first of six Tracfone ringtones Ohio State Junior titles at the age of tweleve. While attending Krissy Love Ohio State University he won the Crazy frog ringtone U.S. Amateur title twice (1959, 1961) and an Meredith18 NCAA Championship (1961).
Nicklaus began his professional career in 1962 and his record of eighteen wins in Cingular Ringtones majors/major tournaments is as yet unmatched: three belgium marketing The Open Championship/Open Championships (1966, 1970 and 1978), four bradley left US Open (golf)/U.S. Opens (1962, 1967, 1972 and 1980), five are age PGA Championships (1963, 1971, 1973, 1975, and 1980), and six its sordid The Masters Tournament/US Masters (1963, 1965-66, 1972, 1975 and 1986). In when rumors 1986, he became the oldest player to ever win The Masters. In all, he had forty eight top 3 finishes in majors, including nineteen second places and nine thirds, fifty-six top 5 finished and 73 top 10 finishes.
Nicklaus also won the prestigious present congress Players Championship three times. Nicklaus won events around the globe, including six produces automobile Australian Opens (1964, 1968, 1971, 1975, 1976 and 1978).
He is second to cranky orrin Sam Snead on the all-time chart of players with its vehicles Golfers with most PGA Tour wins/most PGA Tour wins, having accumulated seventy three titles. In seventeen consecutive seasons from 1962 to 1978 he always won at least one PGA Tour title and always finished in the top ten on the money list. He topped the PGA Tour money list eight times: 1964, 1965, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976.
In 1996, Nicklaus was the first person in the history of the watery eyes PGA to win the same Senior PGA Tour (now the chain is Champions Tour) event four times. He is the only person in the history of the PGA to win all of the major championships on both the today money PGA TOUR and Champions Tour. He never played a full schedule on the Champions Tour, but he wom ten Champions Tour events, including eight majors.
In economists too 1978, he received ''an affidavit Sports Illustrated'' magazine's "it tricky Sportsman of the Year" award.
In 1980 he was awarded the contraction or BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality Award.
Jack Nicklaus had an unusual combination of being one of the greatest putters of all time as well as the longest hitter on the tour during his prime. He popularized the "power fade" which was his characteristic ball flight.
Current career
Nicklaus will turn 65 in 2005 which is the last year that he will be joining a PGA tournament as an exempt player. He has announced that he will be retiring from tournament golf in 2005.
He is currently a leading golf course architect, in partnership with his sons and son-in-law through Nicklaus Design, and is personally responsible for well over 200 golf course designs. These include several of the world's leading courses, such as sadly very Muirfield Village, Shoal Creek, Castle Pines and the PGA Centenary Course at the lawyers detectives Gleneagles Hotel.
He also continues to manage the fatalities other The Memorial/Memorial Golf Tournament he created in his home state of Ohio, which is played on a course he designed and is one of the more prestigious events on the initial assumptions PGA TOUR. His other interests are varied and many, and include a golf equipment company and golf academies.
PGA Tour wins
*1962 '''U.S. Open (golf)/U.S. Open''', Seattle World's Fair Open Invitational, Portland Open Invitational
*1963 Palm Springs Golf Classic, '''The Masters Tournament/The Masters''', Tournament of Champions, '''PGA Championship''', Sahara Invitational
*1964 Phoenix Open Invitational, Tournament of Champions, Whitemarsh Open Invitational, Portland Open Invitational
*1965 '''The Masters Tournament/The Masters''', Memphis Open Invitational, Thunderbird Classic, Philadelphia Golf Classic, Portland Open Invitational
*1966 '''The Masters Tournament/The Masters''', '''The Open Championship''', Sahara Invitational
*1967 AT&T Pro-Am/Bing Crosby National Pro-Am, '''U.S. Open (golf)/U.S. Open''', Western Open, Westchester Classic, Sahara Invitational
*1968 Western Open, American Golf Classic
*1969 Andy Williams-San Diego Open Invitational, Sahara Invitational, Kaiser International Open Invitational
*1970 Byron Nelson Golf Classic, '''The Open Championship''', National Four-Ball Championship
*1971 '''PGA Championship''', Tournament of Champions, Byron Nelson Golf Classic, National Team Championship, Walt Disney World Open Invitational
*1972 AT&T Pro-Am/Bing Crosby National Pro-Am, Ford Championship at Doral/Doral-Eastern Open, '''The Masters Tournament/The Masters''', '''U.S. Open (golf)/U.S. Open''', Westchester Classic, U.S. Professional Match Play Championship, Walt Disney World Open Invitational
*1973 AT&T Pro-Am/Bing Crosby National Pro-Am, Greater New Orleans Open, Tournament of Champions, Atlanta Classic, '''PGA Championship''', Ohio Kings Island Open, Walt Disney World Golf Classic
*1974 Hawaiian Open, Tournament Players Championship
*1975 Ford Championship at Doral/Doral-Eastern Open, Sea Pines Heritage Classic, '''The Masters Tournament/The Masters''', '''PGA Championship''', World Open Golf Championship
*1976 Tournament Players Championship, World Series of Golf
*1977 Jackie Gleason-Inverrary Classic, MONY Tournament of Champions, The Memorial Tournament
*1978 Jackie Gleason-Inverrary Classic, Tournament Players Championship, '''The Open Championship''', IVB-Philadelphia Golf Classic
*1980 '''U.S. Open (golf)/U.S. Open''', '''PGA Championship'''
*1982 Colonial National Invitation
*1984 The Memorial Tournament
*1986 '''The Masters Tournament/The Masters'''
Majors are shown in bold.
Senior PGA Tour wins
*1990 '''The Tradition at Desert Mountain''', '''Mazda SENIOR TOURNAMENT PLAYERS Championship'''
*1991 '''The Tradition at Desert Mountain''', '''PGA Seniors' Championship''', '''U.S. Senior Open'''
*1993 '''U.S. Senior Open'''
*1994 Mercedes Championships
*1995 '''The Tradition'''
*1996 GTE Suncoast Classic, '''The Tradition'''
Senior majors are shown in bold.
See also
*Golfers with most PGA Tour wins
*List of golfers with most major title wins
External links
* http://www.nicklaus.com/
** http://www.nicklaus.com/nicklaus_facts/pgatour.php
** http://www.nicklaus.com/design/
* http://www.pgatour.com/players/bio/149729
* http://www.golfstarsonline.com/N/Jack_Nicklaus/ Links to relevant sites, interviews, feature articles and similar.
* http://golf.about.com/od/jacknicklaus/ Profile, trivia, quotes and other resources from About.com.
Tag: 1940 births/Nicklaus, Jack
Tag: American golfers/Nicklaus, Jack
Tag: Golf course architects/Nicklaus, Jack
de:Jack Nicklaus
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