Jack A. Vickers

Jack A. Vickers Jr. (August 8, 1925 – September 24, 2018) was an oil and sports executive who started work for Vickers Petroleum Company in 1946 as a scout. After he held vice president positions from 1949 to 1952, Vickers became president of Vickers Petroleum in 1952. During the 1960s, he was an executive for Bell Oil & Gas and TransOcean Oil. Vickers also worked as a chair for Vickers Energy Corporation from 1973 to 1980.

For his sports career, Vickers played in amateur golf events between the 1940s to 1950s. As an executive, he sponsored a Wichita team that was part of the National Industrial Basketball League in the 1950s. 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.