Who is Jack Nicklaus

Jack William Nicklaus, also nicknamed "The Golden Bear", is an American professional golfer. By winning a total of 18 career major championships while producing 19 second place and 9 third place finishes in major events on the PGA Tour over a span of 25 years, he is widely regarded as the most accomplished professional golfer of all time.

Jack Nicklaus selected the tournaments where he played carefully. He did not play that many tournaments because he wanted to focus on the Majors, but is still second on the PGA-tournament winning list, with 73 victories.

After winning two U.S. Amateurs in 1959 and 1961, and challenging for the 1960 U.S. Open, Jack Nicklaus turned professional golfer toward the end of 1961. The 1962 U.S. Open was both Nicklaus' first major championship victory and his first professional win. This win over Arnold Palmer began the on-course rivalry between the two exceptional men. In 1966, Jack Nicklaus won the Masters Tournament for the second year in a row, becoming the first golfer to achieve this, and he also won The Open Championship, completing his career slam of major championships.

At the age of only 26 years, Jack Nicklaus became the youngest golfer to win all majors at the time.

Between 1971 and 1980, Jack Nicklaus won a further nine major championships, and overtook Bobby Jones' record of 13 majors, and became the first player to complete double and triple career slams of golf's four professional major championships.

At the age of 46, Nicklaus claimed his 18th and final major championship at the 1986 Masters Tournament, becoming that championship's oldest winner. Jack Nicklaus joined the Senior PGA Tour (now known as the Champions Tour) in January 1990, when he became eligible, and by April 1996 had won 10 of the tour's tournaments, including eight of that tour's major championships, despite playing a very limited schedule. He continued to play at least some of the four regular Tour majors until 2005, when he made his final appearances at The Open Championship and the Masters Tournament.

Jack Nicklaus has also taken part in various off-course activities, including golf course design, charity work and book writing. Nicklaus also runs his own tournament on the PGA Tour, the Memorial Tournament. His golf course design company is one of the largest in the world. Nicklaus' books vary from instructional to autobiographical, with his Golf My Way considered one of the best instructional golf books of all time; the video of the same name is the best-selling golf instructional to date.

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