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Article: A moment of character.(Jack Nicklaus golfer honoured)(In memoriam)
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- Arkansas Business
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- March 27, 2006
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HERE IS A QUICK TEST. WHAT do you think would move the Scots to put a foreign golfer on their 5 [pounds sterling] note? And that is not all. Last year, the venerable Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, governing body for the British Open and most of the rest of the game, did the unthinkable. It changed the rotation of courses that host The Open in order to allow that foreign golfer, Jack Nicklaus, to play his last hole of professional competitive golf at St. Andrews and wave goodbye from the famous Swilken Burn Bridge.
Why would the Scots give Jack Nicklaus a status previously accorded only to the Queen and the Queen Mother, to be pictured on currency while ...