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Ken Venturi: Golf
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A Ken Venturi speaker appearance can serve as an inspiration to your audience, because success didn’t come easy for Venturi. He overcame a stuttering problem as a child, practiced his golf game for up to eight hours a day to make it as a pro and battled through carpel tunnel syndrome.
As a golfer, Ken Venturi was hailed as a man of integrity. His contemporary, Arnold Palmer, was - and is - the closest thing to a deity the game has known since the legendary Bobby Jones.
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On May 12, 1999 Ken Venturi was highly honored by his appointment as Captain of the 2000 U.S. President’s Cup Team. After the competition, he described the overwhelming American victory and recovery of the coveted President’s Cup trophy as “a great way to cap it all off and wind down a career.†However, Mr. Venturi continues to express his lifelong loyalty and respect for the tradition of golf by speaking at corporate outings and charity events throughout the country.
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Ken Venturi played his first round of golf at Harding Park at the age of 12. By the time he was eighteen, he had won the San Francisco City Championship. After graduating from Lincoln in 1949, Ken attended San Jose State College. He played on the golf team and twice won the Northern California Intercollegiate Championship (1951 and 1953) and in 1951 and 1956 he won the California State Amateur Championship.
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Clinton thanked U.S. team captain Ken Venturi and his team members for wearing black arm bands all this week in honor of those who perished aboard the USS Cole. "Like the golfers here, they came from many different ethnic and religious backgrounds," the President said. "Like you, they stood for our common humanity and those who want to build a world where we bridge our differences and celebrate our diversity."
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The world of golf was unaware that Venturi was suffering from prostate cancer when he served as Captain of America’s team at the 2000 Presidents Cup, hosted by Robert Trent Jones Golf Club in Gainesville, Virginia. He confided his illness only to his son and Jim Nantz on the condition they keep it confidential.
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