Jack William Nicklaus (born January 21, 1940 in Columbus, Ohio), also referred to as "The Golden Bear", was the major inflict within broker golf from the 1960s to the late 1990s, and is look upon a greatest linksman ever.

Together by owning Arnold Palmer, he is credited with turning golf game into a major spectator sport it has become. When Arnold daniel palmer brought golf game into a TV era, it was a underdeveloped Nicklaus-Palmer contention that drove subsequent interest.

Career Highlights
Nicklaus took higher golf game at a age of tenner, shooting 51 for his number 1 nine holes. He won a foremost of 6 Ohio State Junior titles at the age of 12. When attending Ohio State University he won the U.S. Amateur title twice (1959, 1961) and an NCAA Championship (1961).

Nicklaus began his agency career around 1962 and his record of eighteen wins around major tournaments is as yet unmatched: leash Open Championships, four U.S. Opens, five PGA Championships, and six Masters. He is one of sole 5 golf player to wwithin entirely foursome todays majors in a career, & a 1st of lone 2 (the more existence Tiger Woods) to have won altogether quadruplet majors additional than it used to be that. Around 1986, he became a oldest streaming video player to ever win A Masters. Altogether, he got 48 top-Three ends around majors, including 19 2nd pages & nine thirds, 56 top-Five ends & 73 top-10 ends.

Nicklaus's sextet wins at a Masters come around 1963, 1965, 1966, 1972, 1975 & 1986. His win tally occurs as record & he was besides runner-second best fourfold. In the Seventies he finished in the top x each year. He appeared in a event 45 days & processed the cut 37 days.Within 1998, at the age of 58 he finished an telling sixth.

He won a U.S. Open around 1962, 1967, 1972 & 1980, & is attached by using Ben Hogan, Bobby Jones and Willie Anderson for most wins. He is a exclusively streaming video player to waround the title within iii different decades, & likewise got quatern runner-second-place finish in his 42 appearances. He processed a cut 35 days.

Nicklaus won a British Open within 1966, 1970, 1978, & was runner-second best vii days. He manufactured a cut inside 32 away from either 38 appearances, & from 1966 to 1980 he never finished worse than sixth.

His 5 wins at a PGA Championship come within 1963, 1971, 1973, 1975 & 1980. He is attached sustaining Walter Hagen for most wins. He manufactured a cut Twenty-seven days around 37 ends & was runner-second best fourfold. His 1971 triumph mass produced him a number 1 streaming video player to win a career Grand Slam twice, an accomplishment which was matched by Tiger Woods at the 2005 British Open.

Nicklaus besides won a prestigious Players Championship three times. He won cases about a world, including sixer Australian Opens (1964, 1968, 1971, 1975, 1976 and 1978).

He is 2nd to Sam Snead on the all-period chart of players by using most PGA Tour wins, having accumulated seventy-3 titles. Inside 17 sequentially seasons from either 1962 to 1978 he universally won at least of these PGA Tour title & universally finished in the top 10 on the money listings. He topped a PGA Tour money listings eight days: 1964, 1965, 1967, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1976.

Around 1996, Nicklaus was a foremost human in the history of the PGA to win a equivalent Senior PGA Tour (nowadays the Champions Tour) event four times. He is a just individual in the history of the PGA to win completely of the major championships in two the PGA TOUR and Champions Tour. (Although he never won a Senior British Open, it was not recognized as a major in the United States until 2003, after he experienced stopped swimming a Champions Tour.) He never played the to the full schedule on the Champions Tour, however he won ten Champions Tour cases, including eight majors.

Around 1978, he received Sports Illustrated magazine's "Sportsman of the Year" award. Inside 1980 he was awarded a BBC Sports Personality of the Year Overseas Personality Award.

Around July 2005, the Royal Bank of Scotland announced that Nicklaus's image would be printed in the favorite issue of both million £5 notes. Apart from either HM The Queen, he is the only dwelling individual to exist as featured in the Scottish banknote [http://www.rbs.com/media03.asp?id=MEDIA_CENTRE/PRESS_RELEASES/2005/JULY/12_NOTE].

Jack Nicklaus got an unusual combination of existence one of a greatest putters ever besides when a yearn hitter on the tour when you took his prime. He popularized a "power fade" which was his characteristic ball flight.

Current career

Nicklaus turned 65 inside January 2005, which is a previous season that he will be joining the PGA tournament as an exempt streaming video player. He announced that he would retire from either tournament golf game within 2005 at The Open Championship at The Old Course at St Andrews. A super fact that a 2005 Open was scheduled at A Old Course may be seen as a tribute to Nicklaus. Many years earliest, a organizers of A Open, The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews (R&A), had scheduled the 2006 Open for The Old Course. Nevertheless, caring that Nicklaus' exemption to play in a Open would begin out when A 2005 Open, The R&A moved The Old Course up in the rotation one year to give Nicklaus an opportunity to play his last Open there.

He is presently the leading golf course designer, around partnership by having his sons & boy-inside-law across Nicklaus Project, & is personally responsible overflow 200 golf course designs. These include many of the globe's leading courses, like Muirfield Village, Shoal Creek, Castle Pines and a PGA Centenary Course at a Gleneagles Hotel.

Nicklaus too continues to handle a Memorial Golf Tournament he created in his page state of Ohio, which is played in a course he designed & is one of the supplementary prestigious cases on the PGA TOUR. His more interests come varied & numbers of, & include the golf game devices company & golf academies. There is a Jack Nicklaus Museum on the campus of Ohio State University in his home town of Columbus, Ohio. [http://www.nicklausmuseum.org/]

Final Tournament

Nicklaus played forgoing lot preparatiin within April 2005 at a Masters, a year when the drowning demise of his 17-year-old grandboy Jake (kid of his son, Steve) on March One, 2005. He & Steve played golf game when therapy for their grief charted a dying. When times of swimming, it was Steve world health organization suggested his pa go to to The Masters. He manufactured that his endure appearance in the tournament.

Nicklaus finished his career at St. Andrews on July 15, 2005. He played by having Luke Donald and Tom Watson in his final round. On the Eighteenth hole, Nicklaus finished his career sustaining the bang by putting the birdie. He finished a spherical at possibly par & missed a cut at score of +3. When hitting the final tee-shot of his career, he strolled to the Swilcan bridge on the Eighteenth & waved to the crowd (world health organization gave a tenner-microscopic standing ovation) prior to posing for commemorative photographs using his boy & tea caddy, Steve, too when Donald & Watson.

PGA Tour wins
1962 U.S. Open, Seattle World's Fair Open Invitational, Portland Open Invitational 1963 Palm Springs Golf Classic, 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, Memphis Open Invitational, Thunderbird Classic, Philadelphia Golf Classic, Portland Open Invitational 1966 The Masters, The Open Championship, Sahara Invitational 1967 Bing Crosby National Pro-Am, U.S. Open, Western Open, Westchester Classic, Sahara Invitational 1968 Western Open, American Golf game Classic 1969 Andy Williams-San Diego Open, 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 Bing Crosby National Pro-Am, Doral-Eastern Open, The Masters, U.S. Open, Westchester Classic, U.S. Broker Match Play Championship, Walt Disney Globe Open Invitational 1973 Bing Crosby National Pro-Am, Greater New Orleans Open, Tournament of Champions, Atlanta Classic, PGA Championship, Ohio Kings Island Open, Walt Disney World Golf game Classic 1974 Hawaiian Open, Tournament Players Championship 1975 Doral-Eastern Open, Sea Pines Heritage Classic, The Masters, PGA Championship, World Open Golf game 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, PGA Championship 1982 Compound National Invitation 1984 The Memorial Tournament 1986 The Masters Majors come shown within 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.

Other wins
1959 U.S. Amateur Championship 1961 U.S. Amateur Championship, NCAA Championship (individual) 1962 World Series of Golf (U.S. - non so the PGA Tour event) 1963 World Series of Golf (U.S. - non so the PGA Tour event), Canada Cup (team event with Arnold Palmer & single event) 1964 Australian Open, Canada Cup (team event with Arnold Palmer & single event) 1966 PGA Team Championship (sustaining Arnold Palmer), Canada Cup (team only, by owning Arnold Palmer) 1967 World Series of Golf (U.S. - non so the PGA Tour event), World Cup (with Arnold Palmer) 1968 Australian Open 1970 World Series of Golf (U.S. - non so the PGA Tour event), Piccadilly World Match Play Championship 1971 Australian Open, World Cup (team event with Arnold Palmer & single event) 1973 World Cup (with Johnny Miller) 1975 Australian Open 1976 Australian Open 1978 Australian Open 1983 Chrysler Team Championship (sustaining Johnny Miller) 1991 Senior Skins Game 1999 Wendy's Three-Tour Challenge (with Tom Watson and Hale Irwin), Office Depot Father-Son Challenge (with Gary Nicklaus), Diners Club Matches (with Tom Watson) 2000 Hyundai Team Matches (using Tom Watson)

Results in major championships

DNP = did non play
WD = withdrew referable injury
CUT = missed a half way cut
"T" indicates the tie for the place.