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(4) Jack Nicklaus has been the recipient of 
countless athletic honors, including being named In-
dividual Male Athlete of the Century by Sports Illus-
trated, one of the 10 Greatest Athletes of the Cen-
tury by ESPN, and Golfer of the Century or Golfer 
of the Millennium by every major national and inter-
national media outlet. He received the Muhammad 
Ali Sports Legend Award and the first-ever ESPY 
Lifetime Achievement Award. He became the first 
golfer and only the third athlete to receive the Vince 
Lombardi Award of Excellence, and is also a five- 
time winner of the PGA Player of the Year Award. 
He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame 
at the age of 34. 
(5) Jack Nicklaus has received numerous hon-
ors outside of the world of sports, including several 
golf industry awards for his work and contributions 
as a golf course designer, such as the Old Tom Mor-
ris Award, which is the highest honor given by the 
Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, 
and both the Donald Ross Award given by the 
American Society of Golf Course Architects and the 
Don A. Rossi Award given by the Golf Course Build-
ers Association of America. Golf Inc. Magazine 
named him the Most Powerful Person in Golf for a 
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record six consecutive years, due to his impact on 
various aspects of the industry through his course 
design work, marketing and licensing business, his 
ambassadorial role in promoting and growing the 
game of golf worldwide, and his involvement on a 
national and global level with various charitable 
causes. 
(6) Jack Nicklaus has been involved in the de-
sign of more than 290 golf courses worldwide, and 
his business, Nicklaus Design, has close to 380 
courses open for play in 36 countries and 39 States. 
(7) Jack Nicklaus served as the Global Ambas-
sador for a campaign to include golf in the Olympic 
Games, which was achieved and will begin in the 
2016 Olympic program. 
(8) Jack Nicklaus was honored by President 
George W. Bush in 2005 by receiving the Presi-
dential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor given 
to any United States civilian. 
(9) Jack Nicklaus has a long-standing commit-
ment to numerous charitable causes, such as his 
founding, along with wife Barbara, of the Nicklaus 
Children’s Health Care Foundation, which provides 
pediatric health care services throughout South Flor-
ida and in other parts of the country. The Founda-
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tion has raised close to $24,000,000 since it was 
formed in 2004, and has provided health assistance 
and services to more than 4,000 children and their 
families through— 
(A) Child Life programs (supporting thera-
peutic interventions for children with chronic 
and acute conditions during hospitalization); 
(B) Miami Children’s Hospital Nicklaus 
Care Centers (to offer a new option to Palm 
Beach County-area families with children who 
require pediatric specialty care); and 
(C) Safe Kids Program (aimed at keeping 
children injury-free and offering safety edu-
cation in an effort to decrease accidental inju-
ries in children). 
(10) In October 2012, the Miami Children’s 
Hospital Nicklaus Outpatient Center was opened to 
provide pediatric urgent care, diagnostic services, 
and rehabilitation services in Palm Beach County. 
(11) Jack Nicklaus also established an annual 
pro-am golf tournament called ‘‘The Jake’’ to honor 
his 17-month-old grandson who passed away in 
2005, and it serves as a primary fundraiser for the 
Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Foundation. The 
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event alone has raised well over $43,000,000 over 
the last several years. 
(12) Nicklaus has been a tireless supporter of 
numerous junior golf initiatives, working with the 
PGA of America Junior Golf Foundation over the 
course of four decades, including the establishment 
of the Barbara and Jack Nicklaus Junior Golf En-
dowment Fund and the PGA-Nicklaus First Tee 
Teaching Grants. He also is a spokesperson for sev-
eral PGA of America and USGA growth-of-the-game 
initiatives. He continues to support several scholar-
ship foundations, other children’s hospitals, and 
other causes, including spinal-cord research, pan-
creatic cancer issues, and Florida Everglades res-
toration. 
(13) In 2013, Jack Nicklaus, with the support 
of the National Park and Recreation Association 
(NRPA), launched the Jack Nicklaus Learning 
Leagues, taking team-concept golf to our parks sys-
tem for children, ages 5 to 12. A non-profit founda-
tion called Global Outreach for Learning Foundation 
(GOLF) was created to underwrite the program. By 
the end of 2013, they hope to have the program in 
more than 100 locations and reach close to 25,000 
children. 
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(14) Jack Nicklaus continues to manage the 
Memorial Tournament in his home State of Ohio, in 
which contributions generated through the aid of 
over 2,600 volunteers are given to support Nation-
wide Children’s Hospital and close to 75 other Cen-
tral Ohio charities. This has garnered more than 
$5,700,000 for programs and services at Nationwide 
Children’s Hospital since 1976, so that Central Ohio 
will continue to have one of the best children’s hos-
pitals in the United States. 
(15) Jack Nicklaus serves as an honorary 
chairs of the American Lake Veterans Golf Course 
in Tacoma, Washington, which neighbors a Veterans 
Administration hospital and is designed for the reha-
bilitation 
of 
wounded 
and 
disabled 
veterans. 
Nicklaus has donated his design services for the im-
provement of the course, and raised contributions 
for the addition of nine new holes (the ‘‘Nicklaus 
Nine’’), the construction of the Rehabilitation and 
Learning Center, and the upgrade of the mainte-
nance facilities. The course is considered the only 
one in the United States designed solely for the use 
of disabled veterans. It served over 30,000 veterans 
and their families in 2011 to use the healing powers 
of golf to help them rehabilitate and recreate. The 
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hope is that American Lake will serve as a pilot pro-
gram for the more than 150 Veterans Administra-
tion hospitals nationwide. 
(16) Jack Nicklaus serves as a spokesperson 
and Trustee for the First Tee program, which brings 
golf to children who would not otherwise be exposed 
to it, and teaches them valuable, character-building 
life lessons through the game of golf, and is a na-
tional co-chair of the organization’s More Than a 
Game campaign. 
(17) Jack Nicklaus remains active in tour-
nament golf, although he retired from major cham-
pionship competition in 2005, when he played his 
final British Open and his final Masters Tour-
nament, and led the United States to a thrilling vic-
tory in the President’s Cup. He consults often with 
the PGA Tour, and no fewer than 95 Nicklaus 
courses have hosted a combined total of almost 700 
professional tournaments. In 2013 alone, Nicklaus 
courses will host 17 PGA Tour-sanctioned events. 
His Muirfield Village Golf Club in Ohio will be 
hosting the Presidents Cup in October 2013, making 
it the only club in history to have hosted all three 
of the game’s most prominent international team 
competitions—the Ryder Cup, Solheim Cup and 
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Presidents Cup. It is also expected that his course 
at the Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea in New 
Songdo City, South Korea, will be named the host 
venue for the 2015 Presidents Cup—the first time 
that country has hosted an international team com-
petition of this stature 
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—The Speaker of the House of 
Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Sen-
ate shall make appropriate arrangements for the presen-
tation, on behalf of Congress, of a gold medal of appro-
priate design to Jack Nicklaus in recognition of his service 
to the Nation in promoting excellence and good sports-
manship. 
(b) DESIGN AND STRIKING.—For the purpose of the 
presentation referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary 
of the Treasury shall strike a gold medal with suitable em-
blems, devices, and inscriptions to be determined by the 
Secretary. 
SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 
Under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treas-
ury may prescribe, the Secretary may strike duplicate 
medals in bronze of the gold medal struck pursuant to 
section 2 and sell such duplicate medals at a price suffi-
cient to cover the costs of the duplicate medals (including 
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labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, overhead ex-
penses) and the cost of the gold medal. 
SEC. 4. NATIONAL MEDALS. 
The medals struck under this Act are national medals 
for purposes of chapter 51 of title 31, United States Code. 
Passed the House of Representatives May 19, 2014. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
By ROBERT F. REEVES, 
Deputy Clerk. 
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