Jack A. Vickers

With the National Hockey League during the 1970s, he helped buy the Kansas City Scouts before he was a co-owner of the Colorado Rockies.

After creating the Castle Pines Golf Club alongside Jack Nicklaus in 1981, The International was held there as a tournament on the PGA Tour until 2007.

Vickers joined the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame in 1999 and was given the PGA Tour Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014.

[2] For his post-secondary education, Vickers started out at Regis College before he played golf at the University of Oklahoma.

[3] When World War II was occurring in between his studies, Vickers was a member of the United States Coast Guard.

Some people Vickers worked alongside in the Oklahoma company included Sam Goldwyn and Jack Benny.

[7] While in Oklahoma, Vickers became an executive for Bell Oil & Gas in 1965 after he bought the Tulsa company that year.

[25] The Castle Rock, Colorado event remained on the PGA Tour until Vickers cancelled The International in 2007 due to lack of sponsorships.

[27] Vickers and his company were sponsors of a Wichita team made their National Industrial Basketball League debut in 1955.

[32][33] While at Vickers Energy, he helped buy the Kansas City Scouts in 1976 before the National Hockey League team was relocated.

[37] While with the booster club, Vickers asked Chuck Fairbanks to leave the New England Patriots and become the head coach of Colorado's football team.

At the time, Fairbanks was signed as head coach of the National Football League team until 1983 before being granted the transfer in 1979.