In 2019, the golf legend nicknamed “
The Golden Bear” Jack William Nicklaus reaches 79 years old. He retired from the world of professional golf in 2005. Nowadays, he swerves to be one of the designers of world-class golf courses along with his sons through the Nicklaus Design company.
The record holder of youngest U.S. Open winner. who has not been broken up to now, has been around with reputable experience in the professional golf since 1961.He holds a record of winning PGA Tour 18 times throughout his career. He won the Champions Tour 8 times between 1990 and 1996. With the length of his career and playing experience throughout the world, he was able to learn, explore, and recognize various characteristics of the golf courses. Therefore, it is not strange if now his designed golf courses are used in various parts of the world.
Of the dozens of his designed golf courses, there are two golf courses he really likes. Those are Muirfield Village Golf Club, Dublin, Ohio and Sebonack Golf Club, Southampton, N.Y.
Always being worked on and tweaked by Jack Nicklaus and his team, Muirfield Village is a dream realized for Jack, who wanted to bring a great club to his hometown of Columbus. The club has been a worthy venue to the Memorial Tournament on the PGA Tour since 1976 and also hosted the 1987 Ryder Cup and 2013 Presidents Cup. Muirfield Village ranks 15th on our latest 100 Greatest, making it as high as eighth in 1985.
This neighborhood of Long Island already had two of the world’s best courses, National Golf Links of America and Shinnecock Hills, but the addition of Sebonack, sitting on 300 acres on the Peconic Bay, with clear views of National and Shinnecock, clinched this stretch of golf as one of the best in the world. Jack Nicklaus and Tom Doak collaborated on their 2006 design, as Ron Whitten put it, they were “on the same team, but not necessarily on the same page.” Nonetheless, the end result is a great addition to the eastern edge of Long Island, forever a golf mecca.