2020 Legacy of Light – June 15, 2020
This year Middle Tennessee Christian School will celebrate our 23rd spring fundraising event! Our Legacy of Light Gala has and continues to be critically important as we seek to make excellent Christian education possible for students at MTCS. This event has quickly become one of the most talked about and anticipated events on our campus and in our community. God has blessed us tremendously through your generous participation and support.
It is with great excitement that we announce that the 2020 Legacy of Light Gala speaker will be golf and sports legend, Jack Nicklaus. The Golden Bear is coming to Middle Tennessee Christian School!!
Jack’s competitive career spanned six decades, and his legend has been built with 120 professional victories worldwide and a record 18 professional major championship titles. He is one of only five golfers who have won all four of golf’s modern majors, an achievement often referred to as the career “Grand Slam”. Jack is the only player to have completed the career Grand Slam on both the regular and senior tours. He is a five-time winner of the PGA Player of the Year Award and was the PGA Tour’s leading money winner eight times. He played on six Ryder Cup teams, captained two other Ryder Cup teams, and served as the U.S. captain for the four U.S. President’s Cup teams.
The legacy Jack has left as a player can be rivaled only by the legacy he is leaving as a golf-course designer, businessman, and philanthropist. Jack and his thriving business, Nicklaus Design, has more than 425 courses open for play worldwide. He has received multiple awards for his significant business success and positive impact in the world of golf. Jack and his wife Barbara have a long history of involvement in numerous charitable activities, from junior golf to children’s hospitals to several scholarship foundations. Jack and Barbara are the guiding light for the Nicklaus Children’s Health Care Foundation, which supports numerous pediatric health-care services in South Florida, as well as nationally, and has raised well over $100 million dollars since its inception in 2004. In June 2018, the Golden Bear received the Lincoln Medal from the Ford’s Theater Society, making him the fourth person in history—and the first athlete or sportsperson—to be honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, and the Lincoln Medal.
No name is more synonymous with greatness in the sport of golf than the name Jack Nicklaus, and no single person has changed the face of the sport more than the Golden Bear – the champion, the designer, the philanthropist, and the good-will ambassador.