- Having a left hip replacement in 1999 caused him to miss the Masters for the first time.
- Father of sons, Jackie Nicklaus, Gary Nicklaus and Steve Nicklaus.
- Awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush on 9 November 2005. Other recipients were Frank Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Gen. Richard Myers, Paul Rusesabagina, Carol Burnett, Andy Griffith, Aretha Franklin, Vint Cerf and his Internet codeveloper Robert Kahn, Alan Greenspan, and former congressman G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery.
- Appointed Honorary Ambassador of Peace for the Harvey Ball Foundation along with Brooke Shields, Jackie Chan, A.V.T. Shankardass, Jerry Lewis, Prince Albert of Monaco, Greg Norman, Phil Collins, Jimmy Buffett, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Darrell Waltrip, Heather Mills, Yoko Ono, Patch Adams, Sergei Khrushchev and Winnie Mandela.
- Professional golfer. Inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.
- Named as Sports Illustrated magazine's "Sportsman of the Year" for 1978.
- Became a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame Selection Commission in April 2016. He replaced Arnold Palmer, who died five months later.
- Inducted into the Palm Beach County [Florida] Sports Hall of Fame in 1977 (inaugural class).
- Inducted into the Florida Sports Hall of Fame in 1972.
- Inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 1995 as a builder.
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