DUBLIN, Ohio – Jack Nicklaus is the greatest major champion the game of golf has ever known.
Throughout his stellar career, he got the best of the game’s best and all others to win golf’s four most important tournaments a record 18 times and finished runner-up 19 times. In all, he won 73 PGA Tour titles. As Tom Weiskopf said years ago, “Jack knew he was going to beat you. You knew Jack was going to beat you. And Jack knew that you knew that he was going to beat you.”
Obviously, a few players got the better of Nicklaus from time to time in the majors and many other tournaments. Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino, Tom Watson, Gary Player and Seve Ballesteros were among those who hoisted major championship hardware with Nicklaus looking on.
