Jack With No Pants

photo credit: SouthAsiaGolf   Jack Nicklaus decided to caddy for his son Gary at a PGA Tour qualifier in West Palm Beach, Florida. in 1997.  The Golden Bear showed up bare-legged in shorts-an infraction of the Tour’s dress code for caddies.  Not wanting to fail his son, Jack quickly slipped into a pair of rain pants while waiting for his wife, Barbara, to arrive with a pair of his slacks.  It was all to no avail.  Gary shot a 78 and failed to advance.

Winning the British Open in the early days of golf was no guarantee of future wealth.  Robert Ferguson-champion in 1880, 1881, and 1882- spent the latter part of his life so poor that he had to work as a caddie at Royal Musselburgh, the scene of one of his British Open victories.