Golf: On to Seven Figures

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If a numerologist were to pick a lucky number for Jack Nicklaus, it would have to be a nice round figure. Like 100,000. Big Jack is the only golfer in history to win an average of more than $100,000 a year throughout his pro career. And last week he became the only golfer ever to win $100,000 in the space of twelve days.

The first $50,000 was Jack's reward for winning the Westchester Golf Classic in Harrison, N.Y.; the second $50,000 was top prize at last week's 36-hole World Series of Golf in Akron, Ohio. Because the P.G.A. does not recognize the World Series as a legitimate tournament, the $50,000 winner's check did not count toward Nicklaus' official 1967 earnings, which last week stood at $156,748. But together with his other money—from exhibitions, endorsements, TV and radio shows, royalties on golf clubs and clothes, stocks (Polaroid, Zenith, IBM), real estate and Louisiana oil—it pushed his total annual income toward another nice round figure: $1,000,000.