Jack Nicklaus: Memories and Mementos from Golf’s Golden Bear.

NICKLAUS, Jack with David Shedloski.

$125.00

Item Number: 145103

New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 2007.

First edition of the ‘Golden Bear’ of Golf’s autobiographical collection of memoirs and facsimiles. Quarto, original golden boards, illustrated with collectible facsimiles selected by Jack Nicklaus himself as his favorite pieces of memorabilia, each housed in an unopened protective pocket. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Sticker to the front panel, ‘Includes 10 rare removable collectibles from the Jack Nicklaus Museum.’ Front jacket photo by Walter Iooss, Sports Illustrated. Rear jacket photo of the conclusion of Nicklaus’s final round, in the 2005 British Open, at St. Andrews Scotland by AP, Wide World Images.

Jack Nicklaus is a man with seventy-three PGA Tour victories, a man who was voted Individual Male Athlete of the 20th Century by Sports Illustrated in 1999 and who had the honor of receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005. 'Memories and Mementos from Golf's Golden Bear' offers stories, personal and professional, straight from the Bear's mouth, accompanied by rare color and black-and-white photographs from the Jack Nicklaus Museum in Columbus.