This Day in Golf--Nov. 8

Jack Nicklaus was torn about turning pro or remaining an amateur, an arena where he would have been more dominant than Bobby Jones. But in a letter dated Nov. 7, 1961, Nicklaus wrote to the USGA's Joe Dey that he intended to turn pro, making this date in 1961 the first full day Nicklaus could feel he was a pro. The following year he won the U.S. Open in a playoff with Arnold Palmer, and he was off to greater heights as the best to ever play.