Professional golf legend Jack Nicklaus has won a $50 million verdict in a defamation lawsuit filed in Florida against his former business partners. A six-person jury in Palm Beach County found Monday that the Nicklaus Companies had damaged the 18-time major champion’s reputation and exposed him to ridicule,

Jack Nicklaus was awarded $50 million by a Florida jury in his lawsuit against his former business, Nicklaus Companies.

The Florida jury took four hours on Monday to determine that Nicklaus’s reputation had been damaged after he was subjected to “ridicule, hatred, mistrust, distrust and contempt”.