Some key golf moments in Jack’s teenage years
- Age 10
- Shot 51 for nine holes the first time he played at Scioto Country Club.
- Broke 100 by the end of the summer.
- Won the Scioto Juvenile Championship.
- Age 11
- Shot a low round of 81.
- Age 12
- Youngest member of winning Scioto team in Columbus Junior Golf League.
- Age 13
- Broke 70 for the first time at Scioto.
- Made first national tournament appearance at USGA Junior Amateur in Oklahoma.
- Won Ohio State Junior Class B Division (golfers 15 and under) for first of three consecutive years.
- Age 14
- Made first hole-in-one (17th hole at Scioto).
- Won Ohio State Junior Championship.
- Age 15
- Shot 66 to set the amateur course record at Scioto.
- Made first U.S. Amateur start, meeting Bobby Jones for the first time.
- Became captain of the Upper Arlington High School golf team as a sophomore.
- Age 16
- Played exhibition match with Sam Snead at Scioto (Nicklaus shot 72 to Snead’s 68).
- Won the Ohio State Open Championship by eight shots, shooting a third-round 64 at Marietta Country Club.
- Said his father: “I really felt he could accomplish anything in golf he wanted after that victory.”
- Age 17
- Qualified for his first U.S. Open, missing the cut.
- Age 18
- Finished 12th at the PGA TOUR’s Rubber City Open at Firestone Country Club.
- Made cut in U.S. Open, tying for 41st.