Jack Nicklaus was born on January 21 in 1940, and is widely regarded as one of the greatest professional golfers of all time, known as the Golden Bear. He has excellent records in many major championships, including 18 professional majors in a 25 year PGA Tour career, lasting from 1962 until 1986. He also won 8 tour majors between 1990 and 1996 with the Champions Tour. He still holds those records today. He has also taken part in numerous off course activities, including but not limited to golf instruction book writing, golf course design, running his own PGA Tour tournament and starting his own golf equipment company. Together with Arnold Palmer and Gary Player, these "big three" have been credited with turning golf into what it is today, which is a popular spectator sport.

Where He is Now -

Nicklaus retired from professional tournament golf in 2005. On March 1, 2005, his grandson Jake was killed in a drowning accident, and Jack began to play golf only as therapy for his grief with his son, Steve. Steve suggested, however, that he return to the Masters tournament, so he made the April 2005 Masters Tournament his final tournament. He played the Champions Tour Bayer Advantage Classic in Kansas in June of 2005 and that was his final competitive tournament. His professional career was finished on July 15 of that year with the Open Championship. While he is no longer playing professionally, Jack Nicklaus participates in golf course design, the publishing of golf instruction books, and his own golf equipment company that manufactures three distinctive lines of golf equipment.

Career Highlights -

During his career on the PGA Tour, Jack Nicklaus managed to accumulate a total of 18 major championships, which is still the record, as well as 73 different PGA Tour victories, second only to a golfer named Sam Snead. He also holds a record for having the most Masters wins, which is currently at 6. He played on six different Ryder cup teams, and captained the team twice as well. He is also known for topping the PGA money list a total of eight different times.

- Total of 73 PGA Tour win
- Total of 18 Major Championship Wins
- 6 Masters Wins
- 6 Different Ryder Cup Teams
- Eight Times Top on the Money List

Interesting and Inspirational Quotes -

"Confidence is the most important single factor in this game, and no matter how great your natural talent, there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work."

"I never hit a shot, not even in practice, without having a very sharp, in-focus picture of it in my head. First I see the ball where I want it to finish, nice and white and sitting up high on the bright green grass. Then the scene quickly changes, and I see the ball going there: its path, trajectory, and shape, even its behavior on landing. Then there is a sort of fade-out, and the next scene shows me making the kind of swing that will turn the previous images into reality."

"How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life."

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