Construction began
Wednesday on the $10 million Jack Nicklaus Museum, being built in the heart
of the athletic complex at Nicklaus' alma mater, Ohio State.
The facility is to
be finished in 11 months and inaugurated next year. It's opening will coincide
with Nicklaus' final competitive appearance in The Masters, the U.S. and
British Opens and the PGA Championship.
The museum is being
built between the Schottenstein Canter, home of Ohio State's men's and
women's basketball and hockey teams, and the Woody Hayes Athletic Canter,
the football team's practice facility.
"Within a few minutes
in any direction of the museum are many touchstones of my life," Nicklaus
said in a statement. "It's the area where I grew up, the golf course where
I learned the game, my high school, the course where I played college golf,
the place where I met my wife, Barbara, and our home in Dublin's Muirfield
Village."
Land for the privately
funded museum was donated by Ohio State.
