113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 2203 

AN ACT 

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, 
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1 SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 

2 Congress finds the following: 

3 (1) Jack Nicklaus is a world-famous golf pro4 fessional, a highly successful business executive, a 

5 prominent advertising spokesman, a passionate and 

6 dedicated philanthropist, a devoted husband, father, 

7 and grandfather, and a man with a common touch 

8 that has made him one of the most popular and ac9 cessible public figures in history. 

10 (2) Jack Nicklaus amassed 120 victories in pro11 fessional competition of national or international 

12 stature, 73 of which came on the Professional Golf 

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

14 Tour, and professional major-championship titles. 

15 His record 18 professional majors, the first of which 

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

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

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

19 player in golf history to have won each major cham20 pionship at least three times, and is the only player 

21 to complete a career ‘‘Grand Slam’’ on both the reg22 ular and senior tours. He also owns the record for 

23 most major championships as a senior, with eight. 

24 (3) Jack Nicklaus’ magnetic personality and 

25 unfailing sense of kindness and thoughtfulness have 

26 endeared him to millions throughout the world. 
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1 (4) Jack Nicklaus has been the recipient of 

2 countless athletic honors, including being named In3 dividual Male Athlete of the Century by Sports Illus4 trated, one of the 10 Greatest Athletes of the Cen5 tury by ESPN, and Golfer of the Century or Golfer 

6 of the Millennium by every major national and inter7 national media outlet. He received the Muhammad 

8 Ali Sports Legend Award and the first-ever ESPY 

9 Lifetime Achievement Award. He became the first 

10 golfer and only the third athlete to receive the Vince 

11 Lombardi Award of Excellence, and is also a five12 time winner of the PGA Player of the Year Award. 

13 He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame 

14 at the age of 34. 

15 (5) Jack Nicklaus has received numerous hon16 ors outside of the world of sports, including several 

17 golf industry awards for his work and contributions 

18 as a golf course designer, such as the Old Tom Mor19 ris Award, which is the highest honor given by the 

20 Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, 

21 and both the Donald Ross Award given by the 

22 American Society of Golf Course Architects and the 

23 Don A. Rossi Award given by the Golf Course Build24 ers Association of America. Golf Inc. Magazine 

25 named him the Most Powerful Person in Golf for a 
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1 record six consecutive years, due to his impact on 

2 various aspects of the industry through his course 

3 design work, marketing and licensing business, his 

4 ambassadorial role in promoting and growing the 

5 game of golf worldwide, and his involvement on a 

6 national and global level with various charitable 

7 causes. 

8 (6) Jack Nicklaus has been involved in the de9 sign of more than 290 golf courses worldwide, and 

10 his business, Nicklaus Design, has close to 380 

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

12 (7) Jack Nicklaus served as the Global Ambas13 sador for a campaign to include golf in the Olympic 

14 Games, which was achieved and will begin in the 

15 2016 Olympic program. 

16 (8) Jack Nicklaus was honored by President 

17 George W. Bush in 2005 by receiving the Presi18 dential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor given 

19 to any United States civilian. 

20 (9) Jack Nicklaus has a long-standing commit21 ment to numerous charitable causes, such as his 

22 founding, along with wife Barbara, of the Nicklaus 

23 Children’s Health Care Foundation, which provides 

24 pediatric health care services throughout South Flor25 ida and in other parts of the country. The Founda-
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1 tion has raised close to $24,000,000 since it was 

2 formed in 2004, and has provided health assistance 

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

4 families through— 

5 (A) Child Life programs (supporting thera6 peutic interventions for children with chronic 

7 and acute conditions during hospitalization); 

8 (B) Miami Children’s Hospital Nicklaus 

9 Care Centers (to offer a new option to Palm 

10 Beach County-area families with children who 

11 require pediatric specialty care); and 

12 (C) Safe Kids Program (aimed at keeping 

13 children injury-free and offering safety edu14 cation in an effort to decrease accidental inju15 ries in children). 

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

17 Hospital Nicklaus Outpatient Center was opened to 

18 provide pediatric urgent care, diagnostic services, 

19 and rehabilitation services in Palm Beach County. 

20 (11) Jack Nicklaus also established an annual 

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

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

23 2005, and it serves as a primary fundraiser for the 

24 Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Foundation. The 
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1 event alone has raised well over $43,000,000 over 

2 the last several years. 

3 (12) Nicklaus has been a tireless supporter of 

4 numerous junior golf initiatives, working with the 

5 PGA of America Junior Golf Foundation over the 

6 course of four decades, including the establishment 

7 of the Barbara and Jack Nicklaus Junior Golf En8 dowment Fund and the PGA-Nicklaus First Tee 

9 Teaching Grants. He also is a spokesperson for sev10 eral PGA of America and USGA growth-of-the-game 

11 initiatives. He continues to support several scholar12 ship foundations, other children’s hospitals, and 

13 other causes, including spinal-cord research, pan14 creatic cancer issues, and Florida Everglades res15 toration. 

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

17 of the National Park and Recreation Association 

18 (NRPA), launched the Jack Nicklaus Learning 

19 Leagues, taking team-concept golf to our parks sys20 tem for children, ages 5 to 12. A non-profit founda21 tion called Global Outreach for Learning Foundation 

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

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

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

25 children. 
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1 (14) Jack Nicklaus continues to manage the 

2 Memorial Tournament in his home State of Ohio, in 

3 which contributions generated through the aid of 

4 over 2,600 volunteers are given to support Nation5 wide Children’s Hospital and close to 75 other Cen6 tral Ohio charities. This has garnered more than 

7 $5,700,000 for programs and services at Nationwide 

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

9 will continue to have one of the best children’s hos10 pitals in the United States. 

11 (15) Jack Nicklaus serves as an honorary 

12 chairs of the American Lake Veterans Golf Course 

13 in Tacoma, Washington, which neighbors a Veterans 

14 Administration hospital and is designed for the reha15 bilitation of wounded and disabled veterans. 

16 Nicklaus has donated his design services for the im17 provement of the course, and raised contributions 

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

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

20 Learning Center, and the upgrade of the mainte21 nance facilities. The course is considered the only 

22 one in the United States designed solely for the use 

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

24 and their families in 2011 to use the healing powers 

25 of golf to help them rehabilitate and recreate. The 
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1 hope is that American Lake will serve as a pilot pro2 gram for the more than 150 Veterans Administra3 tion hospitals nationwide. 

4 (16) Jack Nicklaus serves as a spokesperson 

5 and Trustee for the First Tee program, which brings 

6 golf to children who would not otherwise be exposed 

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

8 life lessons through the game of golf, and is a na9 tional co-chair of the organization’s More Than a 

10 Game campaign. 

11 (17) Jack Nicklaus remains active in tour12 nament golf, although he retired from major cham13 pionship competition in 2005, when he played his 

14 final British Open and his final Masters Tour15 nament, and led the United States to a thrilling vic16 tory in the President’s Cup. He consults often with 

17 the PGA Tour, and no fewer than 95 Nicklaus 

18 courses have hosted a combined total of almost 700 

19 professional tournaments. In 2013 alone, Nicklaus 

20 courses will host 17 PGA Tour-sanctioned events. 

21 His Muirfield Village Golf Club in Ohio will be 

22 hosting the Presidents Cup in October 2013, making 

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

24 of the game’s most prominent international team 

25 competitions—the Ryder Cup, Solheim Cup and 
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1 Presidents Cup. It is also expected that his course 

2 at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea in New 

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

4 venue for the 2015 Presidents Cup—the first time 

5 that country has hosted an international team com6 petition of this stature 

7 SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. 

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

9 Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Sen10 ate shall make appropriate arrangements for the presen11 tation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal of appro12 priate design to Jack Nicklaus in recognition of his service 

13 to the Nation in promoting excellence and good sports14 manship. 

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

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

17 of the Treasury shall strike a gold medal with suitable em18 blems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by the 

19 Secretary. 

20 SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 

21 Under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treas22 ury may prescribe, the Secretary may strike duplicate 

23 medals in bronze of the gold medal struck pursuant to 

24 section 2 and sell such duplicate medals at a price suffi25 cient to cover the costs of the duplicate medals (including 
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1 labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, overhead ex2 penses) and the cost of the gold medal. 

3 SEC. 4. NATIONAL MEDALS. 

4 The medals struck under this Act are national medals 

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

Passed the House of Representatives May 19, 2014. 

Attest: 

Clerk. 

113TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 2203 

AN ACT 

To provide for the award of a gold medal on behalf 

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