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Both age 80, Jack Nicklaus and wife Barbara beat Coronavirus

Updated on: 21 July,2020 09:11 AM IST  |  Dublin
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The few times he has been seen, he was wearing a mask and keeping his distance. Tiger Woods, a five-time winner of the Memorial, said he had known for some time Nicklaus had tested positive

Both age 80, Jack Nicklaus and wife Barbara beat Coronavirus

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"The fact that they got through it and they're safe and here and healthy, it's all good news for all of us who are a part of golf and who looked up to Jack and (have) been around Barbara all these years," Woods said. Nicklaus had a remote press conference on Tuesday and said he would shake the hand of whoever wins the Memorial, a tradition at the tournament he created. "If they don't want to shake my hand, that's fine, I'll give them a fist bump or an elbow bump, but I'm not going to give them COVID-19, so that's ... I wouldn't put anybody in that position," he said Tuesday. He said again on CBS that he'll shake hands if the winner wants to, but he would be fine if the winner doesn't. After a brief moment of indecision with Jon Rahm, it was a fist bump.



"I've been dreaming of that handshake many times," Rahm said. "Well, it was a fist bump because of the situation, but still, how many people can say they got a congratulatory fist bump from Jack Nicklaus?" Nicklaus said by having the antibodies, "theoretically we can't get it and can't give it. That's a nice position to be in." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in a June 30 update, said it does not know if people who recover from COVID-19 can get infected again. It also said even with a positive test for antibodies, "you still should take preventive measures to protect yourself and others."

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