He has won The Open three times, including two on the famous “Old Course” in St. Andrews (Scotland) respectively in 1970 and 1978. Jack Nicklaus, the Golden Bear of golf will receive tomorrow from the Royal Burgh of St.
Andrews Community Council honorary citizenship and will thus become the third American to achieve this privilege after Benjamin Franklin in 1759 and Bobby Jones in 1958.
Jack Nicklaus, The Open
The award will come two days from the start of the 150th edition of The Open, the fourth and last Major of 2022 scheduled from 14 to 17 July.
Jack William Nicklaus (Columbus, January 21, 1940) is a former American golfer, also known by the nickname of “the Golden Bear”, and considered by many to be the greatest golfer of all time, thanks to the records he has achieved in the four major tournaments on the circuit.
Over the course of his 25-year career on the PGA circuit, Nicklaus achieved 18 Majors victories between 1962 and 1986. Subsequently, between 1990 and 1996, he won 8 editions of those same tournaments in the senior version.
Both records are still unbeaten. Nicklaus also tried his hand at other collateral activities related to the world of golf, such as designing courses, writing game manuals and creating his own tournament, which was then included in the PGA circuit, the Memorial Tournament.
He, Arnold Palmer and Gary Player are credited with making golf the hugely popular sport it has become today [2]. Nicklaus also presented 100 Greatest of All Time, a five-hour one-hour television series produced and aire by the Tennis Channel, US television channel, in March 2012.
Nicklaus is the grandfather of Nick O’Leary, an American football player who plays the role of tight end for the Las Vegas Raiders of the National Football League. Jack Nicklaus credits himself with 20 major wins because he believes the US amateur championship he won in 1959 and 1961 still counted as a major at the time.
The modern definition of the four major tournaments, on which the table below is based, was introduced by Arnold Palmer in 1960.
