Jack of Arts
Golf Magazine|August 2019

PAIRINGS DON’T GET MUCH ODDER—OR MORE PRICELESS— THAN ANDY WARHOL AND THE GOLDEN BEAR

Michael Bamberger
Jack of Arts

MY BRIDE AND I, IN COLUMBUS FOR Jack’s tournament, slipped over to Jack’s museum, on the sidelines of the Ohio State campus. Someplace. I spent three minutes just on his left baby footprint. (Twenty years later, the man did that heel lift!) There are scores of photos and portraits, magazine covers and sculptures in the Jack Nicklaus Museum. Its last room is a replica of their old family room, in South Florida, with paintings of Jack and Barbara’s five children by a talented illustrator named Coby Whitmore. But the portrait of Michael, the youngest member of the Nicklaus fivesome, looks unfinished. There are competing theories about why that’s the case, but the leader in the clubhouse is that Mr. Whitmore died before he could. That’s museum life for you. All those little wall placards, with all that authoritative information. But under the carpets, mysteries run wild.

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