On to Seven Figures

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.

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