“If you want to beat your head against the locker, or break a club”: Jack Nicklaus gives valuable advise after his long career
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Jack Nicklaus has had a long career, and a valuable one at that. During the Jack Nicklaus Award ceremony where five players were honoured Nicklaus spoke about his sportsman spirit when he was younger.
He admitted that he had never broken a club purposefully during competition. “In play? Zero,” Nicklaus said. “How many times have I broken one accidentally? I had a 3-wood that I used since 1958 … and used until the (1989) PGA Championship in Chicago. I hit a shot (into the water), took my club and put it in the bag and (it) hit the side of the bag. I didn’t mean to hurt anything,” said Nicklaus to dispatch.com.
Nicklaus only got to know that the 3-wood was in two pieces the next day of the competition.
Jack Nicklaus talks about the importance of sportsman spirit and the mistakes he made
The only other time Nicklaus broke the club was a time where his 3-wood snapped during a swing and all the sudden it wrapped around his back. The shot however, went right down the middle. However Nicklaus stressed on the fact that he had never broken a club angrily during a tournament.
“If you want to be a good sport, you finish the tournament and if a guy’s beaten you, he deserved to win. You shake his hand, say congratulations, and after you leave, you go back in the locker room and you’re by yourself, if you want to beat your head against a locker or break a club, then that’s the time to do it. Not on the golf course. The club didn’t have anything to do with it. It was … you,” said Nicklaus.
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