Jack Nicklaus

Jack William Nicklaus (born January 21, 1940), also known as "The Golden Bear", is a professional golfer, and is widely regarded as the greatest golfer of all time, with his records in Major championships owing to this. During his PGA Tour career, Nicklaus accumulated a record 18 professional majors in a career lasting 25 years from 1962–1986. Later on the Champions Tour, the senior version of the PGA Tour, he won 8 of the Champions Tour majors in a career spanning from 1990–1996. These records both still stand today.
Nicklaus has also taken part in many off-course activities, including golf course design, golf instruction book writing, and running his own tournament on the PGA Tour, the Memorial Tournament. Together with Arnold Palmer and Gary Player (The Big Three), he is credited with turning golf into the major spectator sport it has become. While Palmer brought golf into the television era, it was the developing Nicklaus-Palmer-Player rivalry that drove subsequent interest.