Jack Nicklaus

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• Tiger Woods ties for 32nd with his worst Open score

  said that for most golfers, the opportunity to win a major championship doesn't last very long."With exceptions such as Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player,'' Watson said, "the window is a small one -- five, six, seven years.''Tiger Woods virtually doubled that.   Read more »

• MASTERS WATCH: Tiger drought

  off the lead.Looks like it's time to start looking ahead to the U.S. Open in June, Woods' next chance to draw closer to Jack Nicklaus ' record of 18 major titles.___ANOTHER 10!This time No. 12 got Bubba Watson . Last year's Masters champion put up the second   Read more »

• A disconnect between Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus

  to the Big Three, just as all of golf used to be. Looking back on it, the beauty of the Arnold Palmer - Gary Player - Jack Nicklaus era was in the fact that they were in it together, sharing an intense triangular rivalry and friendship."We've been doing this   Read more »

• The real golf season starts Thursday with the first round of the Masters

  entrants in the year's first major championship scheduled to tee off at 8 a.m., just after Arnold Palmer , Gary Player and Jack Nicklaus get it going as honorary starters. Television ratings and online site views suggest that the start of the Masters represents   Read more »

Around the web

• Tiger Woods has lost his major edge

  without a Woods championship, people are starting to wonder when, or if, he’ll win another. The question isn’t if he’ll break Jack Nicklaus’ mark of 18 majors won. Now, it’s more a matter of if Tiger ever will get to 15. Until he putts like the Tiger of old, 37 m ago from Boston Herald Read more »

• Father Ken was teacher, analyst and Justin Rose's rock

  Don't you love 'em? Generally, one has the greater influence on their offspring. Jack Nicklaus resembled both the physique and mentality of Charlie, a pharmacist in Columbus, Ohio, and Earl Woods masterminded Tiger's career for the first 18 years to such an 6/17/13 from The Independent Read more »

• US Open 2013: No happy ending for Mickelson, but he isn't alone

  Sporting Gods tend to be cruel. Even seemingly chosen ones such as golf legend Jack Nicklaus do not get off easy. Nicklaus won a record 18 Major titles, but he was also runner-up in a record 19 others. What the Gods giveth, they also taketh away. So you have 6/17/13 from Firstpost Read more »

• Looks a Lot Like Tiger's in Denial

  doesn’t win a major, and especially when he looks as old and battered as he has here at Merion Golf Club in the U.S. Open, Jack Nicklaus could have a quiet little party, like some members of the ’72 Miami Dolphins when the last undefeated NFL team gets beaten. 6/17/13 from Real Clear Sports Read more »

• Phil suffers most painful near-miss

  keep feeling heartbreak." Mickelson is only one shy of the career record of seven runner-up finishes in the same major held by Jack Nicklaus from the British Open. The 18-time major winner was second at the British Open in 1964, 1967, 1968, 1972, 1976, 1977   from Times of India Read more »