CLUB LIFE Governors Club September 2015 Volume 3, Number 9 On September 5, 1990, Jack Nicklaus played the inaugural round of golf on his Governors Club Signature Golf Course. On September 29, 2015, Jack Nicklaus will be here once again in celebration of 25 years of Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf at Governors Club. See story on page 3. The Golden Bear Returns to Governors Club Excitement is building among the Members and staff leading up to the Governors Club Silver Anniversary Celebration on September 29. Golf Legend Jack Nicklaus and his wife Barbara will be the guests of honor as Governors Club celebrates 25 years of Jack Nicklaus Signature Golf. Jack will speak to Members and guest dignitaries at the Silver Celebration Dinner, and a limited number of Members will have the opportunity to personally meet and mingle with Jack at the Signature Cocktail Party prior to the dinner. From the Club’s inception, Jack Nicklaus and the power of the Nicklaus brand have been a major source of pride for the Club and an important and significant factor in the creation, marketing, and promotion of Governors Club. Jack and Barbara Nicklaus’s participation in the Anniversary Celebration strengthens the Club’s connection with the Nicklaus brand that will resonate with golfers across the country and around the world for years to come. Jack and his design team created the beautiful and challenging championship course enjoyed today by Members and guests. When the spectacular original 18-hole course opened on September 5, 1990, Jack played the inaugural round. On September 22, 1994, he was in attendance for the grand opening of the Mountain Course. Jack is coming back! Jack Nicklaus named by GolfWorld Magazine as its Jack is a five-time winner of the PGA Newsmaker of the Year 2005, punctuating Player of the Year Award, was the PGA No name is more synonymous with a year in which he played his final British Tour’s leading money-winner eight times greatness in the sport of golf than the Open, his final Masters Tournament, and and runner-up six times. He played on name Jack Nicklaus, and no single person led the United States to a thrilling victory six Ryder Cup teams, captained two has changed the face of the sport more in The Presidents Cup. other Ryder Cup teams, and served as than Jack Nicklaus—the player, the U.S. captain for the 1998, 2003, 2005, In 2001, Jack was honored with the first- designer, the philanthropist, and the and 2007 Presidents Cup teams—going ever ESPY Lifetime Achievement Award, good-will ambassador. unbeaten in his final three captaincies. and he became the first golfer—and only Jack, 75, was named “Golfer of the the third athlete—to receive the Vince The legacy Jack has left as a player can be Century” or “Golfer of the Millennium” Lombardi Award of Excellence. In 2003, rivaled only by the legacy he is leaving as by almost every major golf publication in he was honored with the Muhammad Ali a golf- course designer, businessman and the world. He was also named Individual Sports Legend Award. philanthropist. Male Athlete of the Century by Sports Illustrated, and one of the 10 Greatest Jack’s competitive career spanned five (continued on page 4) Athletes of the Century by ESPN. decades, and his legend has been built with 120 professional tournament On March 24, 2015, the Golden Bear victories worldwide and a record 18 received the Congressional Gold Medal, professional major-championship titles the highest honor the United States (six Masters, five PGA Championships, Congress can bestow on a civilian. Jack four U.S. Opens, three British Opens). He becomes one of only seven athletes to is one of only five golfers—Gene Sarazen, receive this prestigious honor. Ben Hogan, Gary Player, and Tiger Woods In November 2005, the Golden Bear was the others—who have won all four of honored by President Bush at the White golf's modern majors, an achievement House with the Presidential Medal of often referred to as the career “Grand Freedom, the highest honor the Office of Slam.” Jack remains the only player to the President can award any U.S. civilian. have completed the career Grand Slam Jack is one of only two golfers to receive on both the regular and senior tours. His both the Presidential Medal of Freedom eight majors on the senior circuit, now and the Congressional Gold Medal. At the called the Champions Tour, remains a end of 2005, Jack was unanimously record. Jack Nicklaus (continued) Jack was named GOLF Magazine’s International Olympic Committee voted to spoken before the U.S. Congress on the Architect of the Year in 2014, GolfWorld’s add golf to the 2016 Olympic Program. character-building aspects of The First Architect of the Year in 1993, and in 1999, In October 2010, Jack became the first Tee. American inducted into the Asia Pacific Golf Digest named him the world’s leading In July 2013, Jack received the Golf Hall of Fame on the same night active designer. In February 2005, the Golf Ambassador of Golf Award at Firestone Nicklaus Design was named Golf Course Course Superintendents Association of Country Club on the eve of the WGC- Architect of the Year in Asia Pacific for the America recognized Jack with its highest Bridgestone Invitational. The Ambassador third straight year and fourth time in eight honor, The Old Tom Morris Award. In of Golf Award is presented annually to years. In just over a four-week period 2001, he was named recipient of both a person who has fostered the ideals of ending in May 2008, Jack received three the Donald Ross Award (American the game on an international level and Lifetime Achievement Awards in three Society of Golf Course Architects) and the whose concern for others extends beyond different countries, as he was honored by Donald Rossi Award (Golf Course Builders the golf course. Barbara was the 1990 the China Golf Association, then received Association of America), and was honored Ambassador of Golf Award recipient. with the International Network of Golf’s the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Achievement in Golf Course Design Award Award, and, finally, was presented the Because of the contributions Barbara and for 2000–2001. KPMG Golf Business Forum’s Lifetime Jack have made to golf and to community, Achievement Award on May 13 in Dublin, they were honored twice in 2007—the Jack has been involved in the design of Ireland, before close to 350 industry first being The Boys Scouts of America more than 290 courses open for play leaders and developers representing more Distinguished Citizens Award, and then worldwide, and his thriving business, than 30 countries. the Francis Ouimet Lifelong Contributions Nicklaus Design, more than 385 courses to Golf Award, which drew close to 2,200 In January 2008, Jack was recognized for open for play around the world. Nicklaus people to Boston to set a record for a his global impact through design as well Design courses are represented in 39 sports function in New England. countries, 39 states, and no fewer than as his philanthropic efforts at home, when 125 Nicklaus Design courses have hosted he was presented with The Woodrow Residing in North Palm Beach, Fla., over 816 professional tournaments Wilson Award for Corporate Citizenship. since 1965 and in the same home they worldwide or significant national amateur With its Woodrow Wilson Awards, the have lived since 1970, Jack and Barbara championships. As many as 100 Nicklaus Woodrow Wilson International Center for Nicklaus are parents to five children and Design courses have appeared in various Scholars recognizes leaders in business grandparents to 22. national and international Top-100 lists. and public service from around the world The firm currently has projects under and across the political spectrum. The “Biography”(March 2015) Retrieved from construction or under development in 18 Woodrow Wilson Award for Corporate http://www.nicklaus.com/wp-content/ different countries. Citizenship is given to executives who uploads/2015/03/Bio-2015.pdf exemplify a commitment to the common Since 1962, Jack has added the moniker good—beyond the bottom line—and of “businessman” to his lengthy résumé. who demonstrate that private firms He is co- chairman of the privately held should be stellar citizens in their own Nicklaus Companies. For a record six neighborhoods, as well as in the world. consecutive years (2004–09 ), Golf Inc. magazine ranked Jack “The Most Powerful Jack and his wife, Barbara, have a long Person in Golf,” due to his impact on history of involvement in numerous various aspects of the industry through charitable activities, from junior golf to his course design work, marketing and children’s hospitals to several scholarship licensing business, his ambassadorial foundations. Jack and Barbara are the role in promoting and growing the game guiding light for the Nicklaus Children’s worldwide, and his involvement on a Health Care Foundation, which supports national and global level with various numerous pediatric health-care services charitable causes. He was also named in South Florida, as well as nationally, and “Golf Development Newsmaker of the has raised more than $33 million in just 10 Year” for 2005 by Golf Inc., and the Robb years. In October 2010, Jack and Barbara Report once named Jack the “Leading were inducted into the Ambassador David Power Player” in the golf market. Jack was M. Walter International Pediatric Hall of also the “Global Ambassador,” along with Fame. women’s golf legend Annika Sorenstam, On the golf side, Jack is a Trustee of for golf’s unified campaign to gain The First Tee and a national chair of the inclusion into the Olympic Games, a goal organization’s “More Than A Game” realized October 9, 2009, when the capital campaign.