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as the Old Tom Morris Award, which is the highest honor 
given by the Golf Course Superintendents Association of 
America, and both the Donald Ross Award given by the Amer-
ican Society of Golf Course Architects and the Don A. Rossi 
Award given by the Golf Course Builders Association of 
America. Golf Inc. Magazine named him the Most Powerful 
Person in Golf for a record six consecutive years, due to his 
impact on various aspects of the industry through his course 
design work, marketing and licensing business, his ambassa-
dorial role in promoting and growing the game of golf world-
wide, and his involvement on a national and global level with 
various charitable causes. 
(6) Jack Nicklaus has been involved in the design 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 Ambassador 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 Presidential Medal of Freedom, 
the highest honor given to any United States civilian. 
(9) Jack Nicklaus has a long-standing commitment to 
numerous charitable causes, such as his founding, along with 
wife Barbara, of the Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Founda-
tion, which provides pediatric health care services throughout 
South Florida and in other parts of the country. The Foundation 
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 therapeutic inter-
ventions 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 education in an effort to 
decrease accidental injuries 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 grand-
son who passed away in 2005, and it serves as a primary 
fundraiser for the Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Foundation. 
The 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 Endowment Fund and the PGA-Nicklaus First Tee 
Teaching Grants. He also is a spokesperson for several PGA
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of America and USGA growth-of-the-game initiatives. He con-
tinues to support several scholarship foundations, other chil-
dren’s hospitals, and other causes, including spinal-cord 
research, pancreatic 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 system for children, ages 5 to 12. A non-profit 
foundation 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. 
(14) Jack Nicklaus continues to manage the Memorial Tour-
nament in his home State of Ohio, in which contributions 
generated through the aid of over 2,600 volunteers are given 
to support Nationwide Children’s Hospital and close to 75 other 
Central 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 hospitals 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 rehabilitation of wounded and disabled vet-
erans. Nicklaus has donated his design services for the improve-
ment 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 maintenance 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 rehabili-
tate and recreate. The hope is that American Lake will serve 
as a pilot program 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 valu-
able, character-building life lessons through the game of golf, 
and is a national co-chair of the organization’s More Than 
a Game campaign. 
(17) Jack Nicklaus remains active in tournament golf, 
although he retired from major championship competition in 
2005, when he played his final British Open and his final 
Masters Tournament, and led the United States to a thrilling 
victory 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 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
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Cup—the first time that country has hosted an international 
team competition of this stature. 
SEC. 2. CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—The Speaker of the House of Representa-
tives and the President pro tempore of the Senate shall make 
appropriate arrangements for the presentation, on behalf of Con-
gress, of a gold medal of appropriate design to Jack Nicklaus 
in recognition of his service to the Nation in promoting excellence 
and good sportsmanship. 
(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 emblems, devices, and inscriptions 
to be determined by the Secretary. 
SEC. 3. DUPLICATE MEDALS. 
Under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may 
prescribe, the Secretary may strike duplicate medals in bronze 
of the gold medal struck pursuant to section 2 and sell such dupli-
cate medals at a price sufficient to cover the costs of the duplicate 
medals (including labor, materials, dies, use of machinery, overhead 
expenses) 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. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.