Jack Nicklaus - Media Guide

Masters Tournament,  Memphis Open Invitational,  Thunderbird Classic,  Philadelphia Golf Classic,  Portland Open Invitational.  1966  Masters Tournament,  British Open Championship,  Sahara Invitational.  1967  Bing Crosby National Pro-Am,  U.S. Open Championship,  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,  British 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,  Masters Tournament,  U.S. Open Championship,  Westchester Classic,  U.S. Professional Match Play Championship,  Walt Disney World 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 Classic.  1974  Hawaiian Open,  Tournament Players Championship.  1975  Doral-Eastern Open,  Sea Pines Heritage Classic,  Masters Tournament,  PGA Championship,  World Open Golf Championship.  1976  Tournament Players Championship,  World Series of Golf.  1977  Jackie Gleason-Inverrary Classic,  MONY Tournament of Champions,  Memorial Tournament.  1978  Jackie Gleason-Inverrary Classic,  Tournament Players Championship,  British Open Championship,  IVB-Philadelphia Golf Classic.  1980  U.S. Open Championship,  PGA Championship.  1982  Colonial National Invitation.  1984  Memorial Tournament.  1986  Masters Tournament. 

[with Arnold Palmer]. 1967 World Series of Golf, World Cup [with Arnold Palmer]. 1968 Australian Open. 1970 World Series of Golf, Piccadilly World Match Play Championship. 1971 Australian Open, World Cup [with Lee Trevino], Canada Cup [indiv]. 1973 World Cup [with Johnny Miller]. 1975 Australian Open. 1976 Australian Open. 1978 Australian Open. 1983 Chrysler Team Championship [with Johnny Miller].

fourth time as U.S. Captain, with a 2-1-1 record.

at Royal Montreal GC during the fall.

Game in early February when he won 12 skins and a career-best $340,000 at the Hawaii event...Made his 45th and final Masters appearance but did not make the cut...Also bid farewell to tournament golf with his final appearance at the British Open at St. Andrews (MC)...Made last appearance as a player at the Memorial Tournament in late May and missed the cut...Lone start on the Champions Tour came at the Bayer Advantage Classic, where he was T64 and also teamed with his son Steve in the pro-am portion of the event...Captained the victorious United States team in The Presidents Cup in suburban Washington, D.C. 2004: Finished solo sixth at the season-opening MasterCard Championship in Hawaii. Carded three consecutive rounds in the 60s at Hualalai, a first in a 54-hole Champions Tour event for him...Became the second-oldest player to make a cut on the PGA TOUR when he finished T63 at the Memorial after a final-round 71, his lowest score on the PGA TOUR in two years...Played in his 44th Masters, tying Sam Snead and Billy Casper for number of appearances in the tournament, but missed the cut...Also competed in the Nationwide Tour's BMW Charity Pro-Am at The Cliffs, along with sons Gary, Jackie and Michael. All missed the cut at The Cliffs in Traveler's Rest, SC. 2003: Was in contention for 36 holes of the Kinko's Classic of Austin before finishing T7 after an even-par 72 on Sunday...Played in his first Nationwide Tour event at the BMW Charity Pro-Am at The Cliffs and T45 in event near Greenville, SC. Appearance at The Cliffs with four sons marked the first time all five played together in a professional event...Captained the U.S. Presidents Cup team in the biennial matches in South Africa. 2002: Made just two official appearances due to persistent lower back pain. Played in April at The Countrywide Tradition and finished 69th. Arizona appearance was his first official event since July 2001 when he was forced to WD from the Ford Senior Players Championship with a hamstring injury. 2001: T4 at the U.S. Senior Open and finished fourth at the Siebel Classic in Silicon Valley. 1999: Underwent hip replacement surgery in January and played in only three official tournaments on the Champions Tour...Did not play until midway thru the year at the Bell Atlantic Classic. Carded two rounds of 70 on the weekend at Hartefeld National and finished 18th near Philadelphia. 1998: Hobbled by a painful left hip for the majority of the year...Closed with 68 at Augusta National and T6 at The Masters, four strokes back of eventual winner Mark O'Meara...Ended his remarkable run of 154 straight appearances in major championships when he chose not to compete in the PGA Championship at Sahalee CC. 1997: Broke Sam Snead's record for most rounds played at The Masters with his 147th on Sunday...Played his 10,000th hole at the U.S. Open at Congressional CC. 1996: Became the first player to win the same Champions Tour event four times when he claimed The Tradition. Victory in Arizona was his 100th as a professional and was his eighth senior major championship, the most by any player over 50. Shot 65 in the final round at Desert Mountain to best Hale Irwin by three strokes. Carded his third career double eagle on Saturday at The Tradition, his first since the 1965 Greater Jacksonville Open...Also claimed his only 54-hole event on the Champions Tour, rallying from five strokes back to edge J.C. Snead for the GTE Suncoast Classic title. 1995: Defeated Isao Aoki in a playoff to win his third Tradition title and, at the time, became only the fifth man to win the same tournament three times. 1994: Came from three strokes back of Bob Murphy to win the Mercedes Championships at LaCosta by a stroke. 1993: Claimed his second U.S. Senior Open title, holding off rival Tom Weiskopf by a shot at Cherry Hills CC near Denver. 1991: Made just five appearances on the Champions Tour, but won three official events, including his only PGA Seniors' Championship and first U.S. Senior Open title...Shot 17-under 271 at PGA National GC, the lowest 72-hole score on the Champions Tour that year, to claim the PGA Seniors' crown by six strokes over Bruce Crampton...U.S. Senior Open victory over Chi Chi Rodriguez came in an 18-hole playoff at Oakland Hills CC, 65 to 69, making him the first player ever to win USGA titles in five different decades and the first and only player to win all four of the Champions Tour's four major championships at the time...Also came from five strokes back to successfully defend his Tradition title by one over Jim Colbert, Jim Dent and Phil Rodgers. 1990: Played in just four official Champions Tour events but won twice, finished second once and T3 in his only other tournament...Four-stroke win over Gary Player at The Tradition made him the seventh ever to claim a title in their Champions Tour debut...Finished solo sixth at the Masters a week later, at the time, the best finish by a senior in a major since Sam Snead (T3 at1974 PGA Championship)...Cruised to a six-stroke victory at the Mazda Senior Tournament Players Championship in record-setting fashion by shooting a 27-under-par 261 at Dearborn CC, the lowest 72-hole total in Champions Tour history.

current PGA TOUR and Champions Tour events as well as Ryder Cup, PGA Championship and World Cups...Selected as Golf World's Golf Course Architect of the Year in 1993...The Golf Course Superintendents Association of America named him as the winner of its Old Tom Morris Award in February, 2005 at the GCSAA Education Conference...At age 10, carded a 51 in the first nine holes he played...Jack Nicklaus Museum on campus of Ohio State, his alma mater, opened in May 2002....Named 1999 Father of the Year by Minority Golf Association...Named co-chair with Juli Inkster of The First Tee's Capital Campaign, More Than A Game, in November 2000...With wife Barbara, opened and dedicated the Nicklaus Childrens Hospital in West Palm Beach, FL on Nov. 1, 2004...Received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush in November, 2005 at a White House ceremony...In 2006, was named the "Most Powerful Person in Golf" for the third year in a row by Golf, Inc. Magazine...Honored by the sousaphone section of The Ohio State University Marching Band at its 2006 game against Minnesota by being selected to dot the "i" in script "Ohio" at halftime. Became just the fifth non-band member to be accorded that honor. The others: Ohio State President Novice G. Fawcett, actor/comedian Bob Hope, Ohio State football coach Woody Hayes and OSU ticket director Bob Ries.