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Nicklaus
Amateur career
Nicklaus is born in Columbus, Ohio, the son of a pharmacist. He grew up in the suburb of Upper Arlington, and attended Upper Arlington High School. Overcoming a case of poliomyelitis in Benin his childhood, he took up golf at age 10, the shooting of a 51 at the Scioto Country Club for his first nine holes ever played.
Nicklaus won the first of five consecutive titles from Ohio State Junior at the age of 12 years. At 13, he has broken 70 at Scioto Country Club for the first time. Nicklaus won the Tri-State High School Championship (Ohio / Kentucky / Indiana), at the age of 14 with a round of 68 and also recorded his first hole in one in a tournament the same year. At 15, Nicklaus shot a 66 at Scioto Country Club, which was the amateur course record and qualified for his first Amateur Championship United States. He won the Ohio Open in 1956, at age 16 highlighted by a series of phenomenal third 64, in competition with professionals. In all, Nicklaus won 27 events in the region of Ohio since the age of 10-17 years.
In 1957, Nicklaus won the U.S. National Jaycees Championship after losing last year in a playoff. Nicklaus has also participated in his first of 44 consecutive U.S. Opens this year, but missed the cut. In 1958, at age 18, he participated in his first PGA Tour event in Akron, Ohio binder for 12th place and made the cut at the U.S. Open before tying for 41st. Nicklaus also won two Trans-Mississippi Amateur in 1958 at Prairie Dunes Country Club and 1959 at Woodhill Country Club with wins last match of 9 and 8 and 3 and 2, respectively. Also in 1959, Nicklaus won the North and South Amateur at Pinehurst, North Carolina, which is generally seen as the most prestigious amateur side of U.S. Amateur Championship and has participated in three tournaments the PGA Tour with his best result being another 12th place showing at the Buick Open.
During his studies at Ohio State University, he won the amateur championship of the United States twice (1959, 1961), and a NCAA championship (1961). In the 1959 U.S. Amateur winner, Nicklaus beat two-time defending champion Charles Coe in the final game 36-1-hole with a birdie on the final hole. It is important not only because of the proven ability Coe as an actor, but Nicklaus became the youngest champion, can the modern era and second only to Robert A. Gardner, who won in 1909. In 1961, Nicklaus became the first player to win the individual title at the NCAA Championship and the U.S. Amateur the same year. It was followed by Phil Mickelson (1990), Tiger Woods (1996) and Ryan Moore (2004). Nicklaus also won the NCAA Big Ten Conference Championship this year with a total of 72 holes of 283, just now claiming the Western Amateur in New Orleans, Louisiana. In his second and last win U.S. Amateur in 1961, Nicklaus convincing defeat Dudley Wysong 8 and 6 at Pebble Beach in the championship game of 36 holes.
The public in 1960 the United States, Nicklaus shot a two under par 282, placing second by two strokes to Arnold Palmer, who won the tournament with a final round charge from 65 to six under par. This is the lowest score ever shot by an amateur at the U.S. Open and he did play the last 36 holes with Ben Hogan, who later remarked that he had played 36 holes with a kid who would have won by 10 strokes. Over the last 36 holes, Nicklaus was two under par and never fired a single round above par during the tournament. In 1960, Nicklaus also tied for 13 in the Masters and tied for fourth in all three planes of the 1961 U.S. Open Champion Gene Littler behind having played the last 54 holes in one. Each of these three majors Nicklaus finishes designated as low amateur. However, a Nicklaus-under-par 287 to tie for seventh in the Masters tournament in 1961, finished second this year to put amateur Charles Coe weak when he tied for second with Arnold Palmer at seven under par 281, one stroke behind champion Gary Player.
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