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From Player To Builder

Filed in archive Golf Courses on April 23, 2007

From Player To Builder
Wyndandsea Project, Ucluelet, British Columbia

Jack Nicklaus doesn't play much golf anymore. It's a shame that the greatest player to tee it up has hung it up, seemingly for good.

Apparently, Jack doesn't even play recreationally more than once a month.

But he does design golf courses. Plenty of them. 300 to date.

He's in the throes of tackling his 301st on Vancouver Island. Jack is no stranger to British Columbia with three existing gems and the aforementioned Vancouver Island project plus one more on the drawing boards.

My colleague, Robert Thompson, golf columnist with the National Post newspaper, fellow blogger and writer, spent a day with Nicklaus on the wild and wooly west coast of Vancouver Island.

Robert writes about Jack at the age of 67, his faltering golf swing, his burgeoning design business and his thoughts on this year's President's Cup. Jack is again captaining the American squad.

Robert's very interesting story can be found here!


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