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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2203 

To provide for the award of a gold medal on behalf of Congress to Jack 

Nicklaus, in recognition of his service to the Nation in promoting excellence, good sportsmanship, and philanthropy. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 23, 2013 

Mr. TIBERI (for himself and Mr. ROONEY) introduced the following bill; which 

was referred to the Committee on Financial Services 

A BILL 

To provide for the award of a gold medal on behalf of 

Congress to Jack Nicklaus, in recognition of his service 

to the Nation in promoting excellence, good sportsmanship, and philanthropy. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 

4 Congress finds the following: 

5 (1) Jack Nicklaus is a world-famous golf pro6 fessional, a highly successful business executive, a 

7 prominent advertising spokesman, a passionate and 

8 dedicated philanthropist, a devoted husband, father, 


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1 and grandfather, and a man with a common touch 

2 that has made him one of the most popular and ac3 cessible public figures in history. 

4 (2) Jack Nicklaus amassed 120 victories in pro5 fessional competition of national or international 

6 stature, 73 of which came on the Professional Golf 

7 Association (in this Act referred to as the ‘‘PGA’’) 

8 Tour, and professional major-championship titles. 

9 His record 18 professional majors, the first of which 

10 he won 50 years ago with his win at the 1962 U.S. 

11 Open as a 22-year-old rookie, remains the standard 

12 by which all golfers are measured. He is the only 

13 player in golf history to have won each major cham14 pionship at least three times, and is the only player 

15 to complete a career ‘‘Grand Slam’’ on both the reg16 ular and senior tours. He also owns the record for 

17 most major championships as a senior, with eight. 

18 (3) Jack Nicklaus’ magnetic personality and 

19 unfailing sense of kindness and thoughtfulness have 

20 endeared him to millions throughout the world. 

21 (4) Jack Nicklaus has been the recipient of 

22 countless athletic honors, including being named In23 dividual Male Athlete of the Century by Sports Illus24 trated, one of the 10 Greatest Athletes of the Cen25 tury by ESPN, and Golfer of the Century or Golfer 


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1 of the Millennium by every major national and inter2 national media outlet. He received the Muhammad 

3 Ali Sports Legend Award and the first-ever ESPY 

4 Lifetime Achievement Award. He became the first 

5 golfer and only the third athlete to receive the Vince 

6 Lombardi Award of Excellence, and is also a five7 time winner of the PGA Player of the Year Award. 

8 He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame 

9 at the age of 34. 

10 (5) Jack Nicklaus has received numerous hon11 ors outside of the world of sports, including several 

12 golf industry awards for his work and contributions 

13 as a golf course designer, such as the Old Tom Mor14 ris Award, which is the highest honor given by the 

15 Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, 

16 and both the Donald Ross Award given by the 

17 American Society of Golf Course Architects and the 

18 Don A. Rossi Award given by the Golf Course Build19 ers Association of America. Golf Inc. Magazine 

20 named him the Most Powerful Person in Golf for a 

21 record six consecutive years, due to his impact on 

22 various aspects of the industry through his course 

23 design work, marketing and licensing business, his 

24 ambassadorial role in promoting and growing the 

25 game of golf worldwide, and his involvement on a 


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1 national and global level with various charitable 

2 causes. 

3 (6) Jack Nicklaus has been involved in the de4 sign of more than 290 golf courses worldwide, and 

5 his business, Nicklaus Design, has close to 380 

6 courses open for play in 36 countries and 39 States. 

7 (7) Jack Nicklaus served as the Global Ambas8 sador for a campaign to include golf in the Olympic 

9 Games, which was achieved and will begin in the 

10 2016 Olympic program. 

11 (8) Jack Nicklaus was honored by President 

12 George W. Bush in 2005 by receiving the Presi13 dential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor given 

14 to any United States civilian. 

15 (9) Jack Nicklaus has a long-standing commit16 ment to numerous charitable causes, such as his 

17 founding, along with wife Barbara, of the Nicklaus 

18 Children’s Health Care Foundation, which provides 

19 pediatric health care services throughout South Flor20 ida and in other parts of the country. The Founda21 tion has raised close to $24,000,000 since it was 

22 formed in 2004, and has provided health assistance 

23 and services to more than 4,000 children and their 

24 families through— 


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1 (A) Child Life programs (supporting thera2 peutic interventions for children with chronic 

3 and acute conditions during hospitalization); 

4 (B) Miami Children’s Hospital Nicklaus 

5 Care Centers (to offer a new option to Palm 

6 Beach County-area families with children who 

7 require pediatric specialty care); and 

8 (C) Safe Kids Program (aimed at keeping 

9 children injury-free and offering safety edu10 cation in an effort to decrease accidental inju11 ries in children). 

12 (10) In October 2012, the Miami Children’s 

13 Hospital Nicklaus Outpatient Center was opened to 

14 provide pediatric urgent care, diagnostic services, 

15 and rehabilitation services in Palm Beach County. 

16 (11) Jack Nicklaus also established an annual 

17 pro-am golf tournament called ‘‘The Jake’’ to honor 

18 his 17-month-old grandson who passed away in 

19 2005, and it serves as a primary fundraiser for the 

20 Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Foundation. The 

21 event alone has raised well over $43,000,000 over 

22 the last several years. 

23 (12) Nicklaus has been a tireless supporter of 

24 numerous junior golf initiatives, working with the 

25 PGA of America Junior Golf Foundation over the 


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1 course of four decades, including the establishment 

2 of the Barbara and Jack Nicklaus Junior Golf En3 dowment Fund and the PGA-Nicklaus First Tee 

4 Teaching Grants. He also is a spokesperson for sev5 eral PGA of America and USGA growth-of-the-game 

6 initiatives. He continues to support several scholar7 ship foundations, other children’s hospitals, and 

8 other causes, including spinal-cord research, pan9 creatic cancer issues, and Florida Everglades res10 toration. 

11 (13) In 2013, Jack Nicklaus, with the support 

12 of the National Park and Recreation Association 

13 (NRPA), launched the Jack Nicklaus Learning 

14 Leagues, taking team-concept golf to our parks sys15 tem for children, ages 5 to 12. A non-profit founda16 tion called Global Outreach for Learning Foundation 

17 (GOLF) was created to underwrite the program. By 

18 the end of 2013, they hope to have the program in 

19 more than 100 locations and reach close to 25,000 

20 children. 

21 (14) Jack Nicklaus continues to manage the 

22 Memorial Tournament in his home State of Ohio, in 

23 which contributions generated through the aid of 

24 over 2,600 volunteers are given to support Nation25 wide Children’s Hospital and close to 75 other CenVerDate Mar 15 2010 17:16 May 31, 2013 Jkt 029200 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2203.IH H2203

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1 tral Ohio charities. This has garnered more than 

2 $5,700,000 for programs and services at Nationwide 

3 Children’s Hospital since 1976, so that Central Ohio 

4 will continue to have one of the best children’s hos5 pitals in the United States. 

6 (15) Jack Nicklaus serves as an honorary 

7 chairs of the American Lake Veterans Golf Course 

8 in Tacoma, Washington, which neighbors a Veterans 

9 Administration hospital and is designed for the reha10 bilitation of wounded and disabled veterans. 

11 Nicklaus has donated his design services for the im12 provement of the course, and raised contributions 

13 for the addition of nine new holes (the ‘‘Nicklaus 

14 Nine’’), the construction of the Rehabilitation and 

15 Learning Center, and the upgrade of the mainte16 nance facilities. The course is considered the only 

17 one in the United States designed solely for the use 

18 of disabled veterans. It served over 30,000 veterans 

19 and their families in 2011 to use the healing powers 

20 of golf to help them rehabilitate and recreate. The 

21 hope is that American Lake will serve as a pilot pro22 gram for the more than 150 Veterans Administra23 tion hospitals nationwide. 

24 (16) Jack Nicklaus serves as a spokesperson 

25 and Trustee for the First Tee program, which brings 


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1 golf to children who would not otherwise be exposed 

2 to it, and teaches them valuable, character-building 

3 life lessons through the game of golf, and is a na4 tional co-chair of the organization’s More Than a 

5 Game campaign. 

6 (17) Jack Nicklaus remains active in tour7 nament golf, although he retired from major cham8 pionship competition in 2005, when he played his 

9 final British Open and his final Masters Tour10 nament, and led the United States to a thrilling vic11 tory in the President’s Cup. He consults often with 

12 the PGA Tour, and no fewer than 95 Nicklaus 

13 courses have hosted a combined total of almost 700 

14 professional tournaments. In 2013 alone, Nicklaus 

15 courses will host 17 PGA Tour-sanctioned events. 

16 His Muirfield Village Golf Club in Ohio will be 

17 hosting the Presidents Cup in October 2013, making 

18 it the only club in history to have hosted all three 

19 of the game’s most prominent international team 

20 competitions—the Ryder Cup, Solheim Cup and 

21 Presidents Cup. It is also expected that his course 

22 at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea in New 

23 Songdo City, South Korea, will be named the host 

24 venue for the 2015 Presidents Cup—the first time 


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1 that country has hosted an international team com2 petition of this stature 

3 SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. 

4 (a) AUTHORIZATION.—The Speaker of the House of 

5 Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Sen6 ate shall make appropriate arrangements for the presen7 tation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal of appro8 priate design to Jack Nicklaus in recognition of his service 

9 to the Nation in promoting excellence and good sports10 manship. 

11 (b) DESIGN AND STRIKING.—For the purpose of the 

12 presentation referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary 

13 of the Treasury shall strike a gold medal with suitable em14 blems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by the 

15 Secretary. 

16 SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 

17 Under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treas18 ury may prescribe, the Secretary may strike duplicate 

19 medals in bronze of the gold medal struck pursuant to 

20 section 2 and sell such duplicate medals at a price suffi21 cient to cover the costs of the duplicate medals (including 

22 labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, overhead ex23 penses) and the cost of the gold medal. 


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1 SEC. 4. NATIONAL MEDALS. 

2 The medals struck under this Act are national medals 

3 for purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code. 

4 SEC. 5. FUNDING. 

5 (a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 

6 authorized to be charged against the United States Mint 

7 Public Enterprise Fund an amount not to exceed $30,000 

8 to pay for the cost of the medals authorized by this Act. 

9 (b) PROCEEDS OF SALE.—Amounts received from the 

10 sale of duplicate bronze medals under section 3 shall be 

11 deposited in the United States Mint Public Enterprise 

12 Fund. 

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