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Jack Nicklaus

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“Miami was Miami Children's, and we made an association with Miami Children's. And after a couple of years, they came back to us and they said, you know, we'd like to be a global hospital, so we'd like to use the Nicholas name. And it's fantastic to see what's happened with these kids. And I want to tell you one thing. It's far more important than a four-foot putt. And I enjoy it a lot more.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Haven't really done anything large, but we've raised a little over $100 million in the last 15 years. That's pretty impressive. Which is pretty good.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Now nationwide children's hospital. And they found a crayon at her windpipe. And they didn't have how in the world they did it, but they didn't have a pediatric bronchoscope. They wouldn't have an adult bronchoscope, broke the crayon up, dropped it her lungs. She got pneumonia. For about six days, she was touch and go. And as Barbara and I were sitting waiting for Nan whatever was going to happen, we just said, you know, if we ever are in a position to help on this, we want to be children. And then 15 years ago, the Honda tournament moved up from Fort Lauderdale to the Palm Beach area and fell named Fred Mills came to me, ran the charities. He said, Jack, what do you have in this area for children's charities? And I looked at Barbara and I said, you want to go for it. And she said, go for it. So we started our foundation. We've been the main beneficiary from Honda and several other events and so forth.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, we started, David, back with my daughter 1966. Our daughter Nan was 11 months old, and she started choking. And we never couldn't understand why we get her to the doctor and she'd be fine. Well, finally, the doctor says, we've got to get this gal down to the children's hospital. We went down to the Columbus Children's Hospital.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think so. Wade Brooks Kemp is going, he's going to do it before Tiger. I felt like I remember the last one the Tiger one prior to this was at Tory Pines in San Diego 10 years ago. And Tiger hit it all over the place and won the tournament. Now he had back fusion and his swing is much better now than it was then. He's now learned not to hit it hard because he doesn't want to hurt himself. And Tiger's short game is fantastic. Tiger's going to win a lot more tournaments. Whether he's going to win three or four more major tournaments, I don't know. But Tiger's 43 in the game of golf today is not very old.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh no. The guys are good friends. Arnold and I had a fierce rivalry. And we wanted, I mean, we blew more tournaments for ourselves trying to beat each other than worrying about the field. But we get off the golf course and we look at it and we say, yeah, we did it again. We both shot 75 while everybody else shot 65, but just the two of us tried to beat each other. But then we shake hands and say, okay, where are you going to dinner tonight? So that's, I love the golf kids today. I mean, I love watching when Gary Woodland finished, and I don't see on television, but you saw four or five of the other players or six of the other congratulate and Justin Thomas won the PGA two years ago, Ricky Fowler and Jordan Speeth were waiting for him once he finished on the 18th screen. The guys really support each other. And they've got enough money. They're not worried about the money. They know it's a game, and those guys are their friends and they enjoy.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Pretty good. You know, it's kind of a funny story because his name is GT, which is Gary Thomas after his father, he's a junior. And we're playing, we went out and played nine holes. And I said, I always ask the kids, because I have a different one, Caddy for me every year. The master's turn, I said, do you want to hit a ball? And I says, well, none of my cousins have ever gotten it on the green. I said, well, okay. I says, yeah. He says, I'd love to hit a ball. I said, okay, so fine. So I said, well, if you're not going to green, you may as well make a home one. He says, oh, okay, so he saw his dad was I had the master's dinner on Tuesday night. He said, he says, people, I'm people. He says, People thinks I'm going to make a hole in one. He says, really? He says, yeah, that's what he says. I'm going to knock it on the green. He may as well make a hole in one if the next day he knocks it right in the hole. And Gary Players, who is actually named after Gary, my son Gary, because Gary was such a great friend and such a great role model. And Gary was...”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that's a little bit of politics, too. You give me mine if I give you yours if you give me mine, that kind of routine, which is not golf”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, the ones I've played with, actually, Trump is probably the best player. Trump plays pretty well. He plays a little bit like I do. He doesn't really ever finish many holes, but he can hit the ball and he goes out and plays and he just enjoys it. And he's won several club championships and he can play. Gerald Ford, I played 50 rounds with Ford. I used to play with him at the AT&T every year. And Ford was about a 13 handicap, but he played to a 13 handicap. Clinton, I never knew what Clinton might do. Clinton, or he might play to a 30, but he had a nice golf swing. He enjoyed, but all these guys enjoyed playing golf. And I don't think any one of them really were very serious about the game, but they all enjoyed playing it. And I think that it's good for the game of golf to have the president of the United States say, you know, this is my game.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think I'll have to pick Tiger today. But through the years, I never got to play with Bobby Jones, even though I knew him and really, really loved the band. I would have loved to play with Jones, and I would have loved to, I played quite a bit of golf with Hogan. Hogan was fantastic.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's kind of funny because, yeah, I wanted to make the cut that day. And after I threw putted from the front edge of 17 trying to make Birdie, I got to the 18th hole and I hit the ball in about 14 feet behind the hole. Now, the pole had not gotten anywhere near the hole all day. And I knew that that putt because the tournament was over. I didn't know where I hit it, the hole was going to move in front of it. And that's what it did. I made my last putt. I started my professional or my career in major championships in 1957 with a birdie on the first hole I played. And I finished it on St. Andrews with a 14-foot putt with a breeze.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A family there. They were all there. My son Steve countied for me during that week. We stopped at what's called the Swilken Bridge, which is the bridge across the 18th Fairway. We didn't get a decent picture of Steve. Steve was crying too much. And Tom Watson was, he's crying. I mean, they're all emotional. I'm trying to figure out how to finish the golf tournament. They're crying on me. And so we had a great time, though. And it was fun. I loved it. I didn't want to finish on Friday, but I did finish on Friday.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, if I had one round of golf play, I'd probably go out to Pebble Beach, which we just left the U.S. open last week. I love Pebble Beach. The scene out there, I won the U.S. Amateur there, won the U.S. Open there, won three Crosbies out there. And I just love the place. But my two favorite places in the game are probably Augusta National and St. Andrews.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Who I think I'd like to work with. So I did that. I made 23 visits into that trip with Pete. And about six months before the turban, they came and told us we were going to have the Heritage Golf Classic there, which they've had there ever since since 1969. Arnold won the first tournament. I loved it. I had a ball. It was just tremendous.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I got into it by a follow-up name Pete Dye. Pete Dye has been sort of the premier golf course designer over the last 30 years or so. And Pete one day called me, and this was in the mid-60s. He said, Jack, I'd like to have you come out and see I'm doing a new course for Following Fred Jones. And I want you to come out and see what is. I said, what do you see, Pete? He says, I want you to critique it for me. And I said, Pete, I don't know anything about design. He said, oh, you know more than you think you know. I said, okay, so I went out and I looked through the golf person. We did things. And then he asked me a couple of things. I said, I don't know anything about that. He says, yeah, you do. Just tell me what you would like to see. And he did it. It piqued my interest and I got a call from Charles Fraser at Sea Pines Plantation down in Harbor Town in Hilton Island. And he said, Jack, I'd like to have you do a golf course first. I said, well, I don't know anything about it. I said, but I got a young guy who I'm working with fellow named Pete Dye.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, it's kind of funny because I really had really finished playing golf by then. I'd won two majors when I was 40 years old. And I really just enjoyed playing golf and I wanted to be part of the game. And I just sort of struck lightning in a bottle a little bit that week. And all of a sudden I got around to that last nine holes or last ten holes. And I remembered how to play. I mean, you get yourself in contention and all of a sudden, much like what tiger happened to tiger at the masters this year. When I saw the fellows start to fill up the creek at Ray's Creek, which is a 12th hole, and he took this pretty little shot out and cut it on the middle of the green, I said, tournament's over because he will remember how to play. And that's what I did. I remembered how to play and I remembered how to finish. And that was really fun being able to do that.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I birded nine, I birded 10, I birded 11. I messed up 12 a little bit, but then I buried 13. And then when I eagled 15 and birdied 16 and buried 17, yeah, I thought I could win because I was late.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I had to fight Arnold's gallery a lot, but I never had to fight Arnold. He always treated me with respect. He treated me like a fellow competitor. And so I didn't have those issues.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think your mind is a big part about it. I think you've got to believe in what you can do. You've got to learn to play within yourself. I think anybody in all walks of life, I don't care what business you're in, you need to work within yourself and you need to do what you can do, not what somebody else can do. And you start believing in that. And then I think winning breeds winning. So I was lucky my first year. I won the US Open, won the biggest tournament in golf. My first year out. And I believe that I could play. So all of a sudden they start coming in a little easier for me.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know that there's any record that I haven't achieved, but my record is good, but you can always be better. That's the neat thing about the game of golf. No matter how good you get at something, you can be better.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I wasn't real popular because I started beating Arnold. And I wasn't popular with myself because I was an Arnold Palmer fan. And Arnold was a good guy. We got to be very close friends. Our wives got to be very close friends. But he was, and he never really seemed to mind that I beat him more than he beat me. And I'm sure he probably did inside, but he never let me know it. He took me under his wing, and he's 10 years older than I was. He was great to me. So I have nothing but love for Arnold”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I didn't have any more goals or anything more to do in Amateur Gulf, and I wanted to be the best I could be at playing golf. So I said, the only way I could do that is to play against the best. The only way to do that is to play against the pros. So that's why I'd play pro.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, he was a speaker at the banquet of my first U.S. ambition when I was 15 years old. And at that time, he was gotten paralyzed as he went on, but he was still walking with Keynes at that time. And he saw me play coming in the last practice round. They said, young man, I'm going to come out and watch you play a little bit tomorrow. Here I'm a 15-year-old kid playing my first U.S. Abbott, the greatest player who had ever lived, as Bob Jones is going to come out and watch me play. And he came out and I immediately went bogey bogey, double bogey, lost my match, but it was a great experience. And I became a good friend. And he was great counsel. He was really a really good man.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I started college. I mean, most kids want to be what their dad was. So my dad was a pharmacist, so I went through pre-pharmacy. I hated afternoon labs. And so my dad taught me out of going before I went to pharmacy school and talked me into doing something else. So I started selling insurance. And I just love selling life insurance to my fraternity brothers. They really needed it. And so I did that for a while. And I did pretty well at it. And I was making good money. And I got married and had a first child. But I really wanted to play golf. That's what I did”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yep, my dad was sort of my best friend and my idol. I loved my dad, he just did everything with me. He just gave up everything for me.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He was a decent golfer as a kid, and then he quit for 15 years and was a pharmacist. And he broke his ankle playing volleyball. He ended up having three operations and had it fused. And the doctor said, Charlie, he says, if you don't want to end up in a wheelchair, you better straight walking again. So he took, we moved out to the suburb to Upper Arlington, to Sowda Country Club. He joined there, took me along to carry the bag because he couldn't make a game because he couldn't walk very far. That particular year, a fellow named Jack Grout came to Syota and the PGA Championship came to Syota that year. So I got all that in my first year of playing golf. And it just sort of got me charged up to learn a sport.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Golf is another sport at the time. But once I started into college, I won a national lesser than the National Tournament, but it got me on the Walker Cup team. And all of a sudden I was now one of the 12 best amateurs in the country. And then later that year, I won the National Amateur and I was ranked number one. And I said, hmm, maybe I'm better at this than I thought I was. And then I almost won the U.S. open the next year. And then I did win the U.S. Amina again the next year. And then I said, well, maybe I need to go play against the best if I want to be the best. So it was a process”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, that's a pretty good question. I try to think about that. It's a never-ending pursuit of unattainable goal is what it really is. But you could try all you want, and nobody has ever mastered the game, most all athletes in all other sports love to play golf because it's difficult. It's challenging for them. And it challenges them at whatever level they play. And I think that's why I enjoy it. That's why I enjoy it. I enjoy playing it because no matter how good I got, I can always be better.”
2019-09-10 · The David Rubenstein Show · Jack Nicklaus · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source