Jack Nicklaus
Jack Nicklaus
Jack William Nicklaus, nicknamed "The Golden Bear", is a retired American professional golfer. He is widely regarded as the greatest golfer of all time, winning a total of 18 career major championships, while producing 19 second-place and 9 third-place finishes in them, over a span of 25 years. Nicklaus focused on the major championships, and played a selective schedule of regular PGA Tour events, yet still finished with 73 victories, third on the all-time list behind Sam Sneadand Tiger Woods...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGolfer
Date of Birth21 January 1940
CityUpper Arlington, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Tee your ball high...air offers less resistance than dirt.
The importance of my legacy is not the golf course, it's what my life is, and what my life is intended to be. The game of golf is a game. My family is my life.
Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.
It takes hundreds of good golf shots to gain confidence, but only one bad one to lose it.
Golf is not, and never has been, a fair game.
I've had a lot of majors where I didn't play well until the last round. Keep yourself in contention; that's the name of the game. I usually ended up shooting a good round and all of a sudden, somehow, I won.
I don't think you would have missed that putt, but in these circumstances, I would never give you the opportunity.
You have to love something and have a passion for it to be disciplined. My commitment was purely to golf
Golf is game of respect and sportsmanship; we have to respect its traditions and its rules.
This is a tournament. The others are all championships.
Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
A big part of managing a golf course is managing your swing on the course.