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Bobby Jones: Atlanta Journal
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Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr. (March 17, 1902 – December 18, 1971), born in Atlanta, Georgia, was one of the greatest golfers to compete on a national and international level. He participated only as an amateur, primarily on a part-time basis, and chose to retire from competition at age 28.
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Jones receives a degree in English literature from Harvard. On June 17, he marries Mary Rice Malone in Atlanta. They eventually have three children, Clara, Robert Tyre Jones III, and Mary Ellen. After only one year at Emory University Law School, he passes the state bar exam. On January 13, 1928, he is admitted to the Georgia Bar and enters his father's law firm.
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Jones, the son of a lawyer, was born into a well to do family who had a summer house near the East Lakes GC , Atlanta. The young Jones played there from the age of 5 and soon demonstrated a natural talent. He became junior club champion when he was just 9. He never had a formal lesson yet his swing was so smooth and powerful that professionals would later emulate it.
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On his way to the Berlin Olympic Games, Jones and his party (including Atlanta businessman and philanthropist Robert Woodruff) decided to stop at St. Andrews to play a round of golf. When they arrive, they are astonished to find over two-thousand people waiting on the first tee. Thousands more lined the course in anticipation of his play.
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Jones, an Atlanta lawyer and founder of the Augusta National Golf Club, wrote Down the Fairway when he was only 24 years old. He had just become the first golfer ever to win both the U.S. and British Open titles in one year (1926) and thought he would never perform at such a high lever again.
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Jones was a sickly child who could not eat solid food until he was five, the year his family spent the summer near the East Lake golf course outside Atlanta, their hometown. "I wish I could say here that a strange thrill shot through my skinny little bosom when I swung at a golf ball for the first time," wrote Jones in his 1927 autobiography, Down the Fairway, "but it wouldn't be truthful." Even so, by age six he was teaching himself golf by following East Lake's best player around and imitating his swing, and at 14, the blue-eyed, tow-headed prodigy became the youngest player ever to enter the U.S. amateur championship.
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