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Nicklaus ' failure to win a major in 1974 was offset somewhat by winning the inaugural Tournament Players Championship and being named one of the 13 original inductees into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
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Nicklaus and win
This gesture of sportsmanship by Nicklaus caused controversy on the American side, some of whom would have preferred to force Jacklin to attempt the putt for the small chance that he might miss, which miss would have given the United States team an outright win.
* British Open-Jack Nicklaus becomes the fourth player to win all four major professional championships.
* Masters Tournament-Jack Nicklaus shoots a Masters record 271 ( 17 under par ) to win by nine strokes.
He is one of five golfers ( along with Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, and Tiger Woods ) to win all the current major championships in his career, the Career Grand Slam:
The 1962 U. S. Open was both Nicklaus ' first major championship victory and his first professional win.
In 1968 and 1969, Nicklaus did not win a major tournament.
In 1961, Nicklaus became the first player to win the individual title at the NCAA Championship and the U. S. Amateur in the same year.
In his second and last U. S. Amateur win in 1961, Nicklaus convincingly defeated Dudley Wysong 8 & 6 at Pebble Beach in the 36-hole championship match.
The U. S. Open win placed Nicklaus on the cover of Time magazine.
This was not enough, however, to win the event ; Nicklaus placed second to Tony Lema.
Nicklaus finished this record win with a dramatic 238-yard 1-iron shot, uphill into a breeze and light rain, to the 72nd green ( an approximate 260-yard equivalent ) and holing a birdie putt to close out a final nine of 30 and final round of 65 to beat Arnold Palmer by four shots.
After Nicklaus won the 1967 U. S. Open, he did not win another major championship until the 1970 Open Championship at the Old Course at St Andrews.
Nicklaus also went on to capture the Piccadilly World Match Play Championship in 1970 with a 2 & 1 win over Lee Trevino in the championship match.
With a two-shot win at the 1971 PGA Championship in February over Billy Casper, Nicklaus became the first golfer to win all four majors twice in a career.
This victory was also Nicklaus ' 11th professional major, tying him with Walter Hagen, and made him the first player to win the U. S. Amateur and U. S. Open championships on the same golf course.
Nicklaus did not win the Grand Slam in 1972, however, as Lee Trevino repeated as the Open Championship winner ( Nicklaus finished second, one shot behind ), and Gary Player prevailed in the PGA Championship.
Nicklaus was also the first player to win over $ 300, 000. 00 in official money for a single season in 1972 at $ 320, 542 ; he eclipsed that threshold again the following year with $ 308, 362.
The 1976 Tournament Players Championship saw Nicklaus set a championship record of 19-under par 269 for his second win in this event which remained in place until Greg Norman's 24-under-par 264 assault in 1994.
The year also saw Nicklaus win for the first time his own Memorial Tournament, where he described the victory as the most emotional moment of his entire career, and nearly decided to retire from competitive golf.
Nicklaus and Woods are the only two players to win three " Career Grand Slams ".
Nicklaus considered his performance in the 1978 Open as the finest four days of tee-to-green golf he had ever produced, and was most proud that the win came at St. Andrews, his favorite place to play golf.
Nicklaus ' win was his fourth and final victory in the championship, tying him with Willie Anderson, Bobby Jones, and Ben Hogan.
Nicklaus and major
* Masters Tournament-Jack Nicklaus becomes the oldest Masters winner ( age 46 ), and wins his last major golf championship ( excluding the Senior PGA Tour ).
Els has now won major tournaments in three different decades, joining his countryman Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus, Lee Trevino, Billy Casper and other all-time greats.
In 1966, Nicklaus won the Masters Tournament for the second year in a row, becoming the first golfer to achieve this, and also won The Open Championship, completing his career slam of 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.
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.
Each of these three major championship finishes designated Nicklaus as Low Amateur.
In 1963 Nicklaus won two of the four major championships — the Masters and the PGA Championship.
It was of this round that Nicklaus said, " I had never before and have never since played quite as fine a complete round of golf in a major championship as I did in the third round of the 1965 Masters ".
Nicklaus finished second twice and fifth in the remaining three major championships for the year.
Nicklaus won the first two major championships of 1972 by three shots each in wire-to-wire fashion.
The U. S. Open was Nicklaus ' 13th career major and tied him with Bobby Jones for career majors ( although a different group of tournaments had been considered majors in Jones's time ).
Jones ' record of majors was soon broken when Nicklaus won the PGA Championship in August 1973 by four shots over Bruce Crampton for his 12th professional major ( surpassing Hagen's mark of 11 ) and 14th overall when using the old-style configuration of Jones ' day.
Although he had no major championship victories in 1974, Nicklaus still achieved four top-ten finishes in the four events, three of which were in the top four, and placed second on the official money list behind Johnny Miller.
Nicklaus won the 1978 Open Championship at St. Andrews to become the only player to have won each major championship three times.
In 1986, Nicklaus capped his major championship career by recording his sixth Masters victory under incredible circumstances, posting a six-under par 30 on the back nine at Augusta for a final round of seven-under-par 65.
Over the course of his 25-year span ( 1962 – 1986 ) of winning 18 major championships, Nicklaus finished second an astounding 18 times ( excludes the second place finish at the 1960 U. S. Open as an amateur ).
Later in the year, Nicklaus won the Senior Players Championship by six shots over Lee Trevino for his second win of the year, and also his second major of the year by shooting a record 27-under par 261.
The Big Three were once again reunited in Augusta for the 2012 Masters Tournament as Gary Player joined Palmer and Nicklaus to kickoff the 76th renewal of the major tournament.
Nicklaus and 1974
Nicklaus continues to manage the Memorial Tournament he created in his home state of Ohio, which is played at Muirfield Village, a course which he designed and opened in 1974.
The course was officially dedicated on Memorial Day, May 27, 1974, with an exhibition match between Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf.
Nicklaus was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of 1974 and the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 1995.
In 1974, Miller was the leading money winner on the PGA Tour with 8 victories, which considerably outpaced the rest of the field ; he amassed a then-record $ 353, 201 ( not exceeded until 1978 ), and unseated Nicklaus as the Tour's leading money winner for a season.
Opened in 1974, Nicklaus named it Muirfield Village ; it has hosted his Memorial Tournament, a top invitational event on the PGA Tour since 1976.
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