1940-
Professional Golfer

Player of the Century.

For most of the past thirty years Jack Nicklaus has been considered golf 's greatest. His longevity has proved equal to Arnold Palmer's, and only Ben Hogan and Bobby Jones can be considered players in Nicklaus's league. But in numbers of major tournaments won, Nicklaus stands alone with twenty victories — a remarkable figure that does not include major titles won on the Senior Tour. He has won seventy times on the PGA Tour and has fifty-eight second-place and thirty-six third-place finishes. Nicklaus has finished top PGA Tour money winner and held the tour's low-scoring average eight times. He was named the PGA's Player of the Year in 1967, 1972, 1973, 1975, and 1976, and Golf magazine in 1988 celebrated American golf's centennial by naming Nicklaus the "Player of the Century." Upstart. Nicklaus began playing golf at the age of ten in his hometown of Columbus...