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Bobby Jones: British Open
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At the age of 19 Bobby Jones decided to compete in the British Open. He began the third day at the prestigious St. Andrews course leading all the amateurs who were competing. After a double-bogey on the 10th hole, Jones picked up his ball on the 11th and never completed the course. It was the low point of his career. Over the next two years Jones work not only on his game, but the personal issues that plagued him in his early career.
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From the beginning, Jones' swing possessed "a drowsy beauty," in the words of Bernard Darwin. Yet Jones was a passionate man who had to overcome his own frailties of temperament. The strain of competition would cause him to lose as much as 18 pounds in a week. After winning the 1926 U.S. Open, he suddenly broke into tears in his Columbus, Ohio, hotel room, the strain catching up to him. He had to dominate a fiery temper that hindered him as a youth. As talented as he was, he did not win his first championship until 1923, prompting the early part of his career to be labeled "The Seven Lean Years."
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Jones breezed in the final... clubbing Britain's Roger Wethered, 7 and 6. At Hoylake two weeks later, all ears were tuned to Jones as the British Open was broadcast over American radio for the first time. Jones led the Open through the first three rounds and broke the 72-hole course record by 10 strokes.
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Jones only fully grasps his full potential with the encouragement of others—mainly his father and O.B. Keeler … with a little help from a Scottish caddie named Angus and six-time British Open champ Harry Vardon. Playing miserably at St. Andrew's in 1921, Jones angrily picks up his ball mid-round and stalks off the course. Angus is stunned: "Laddie, you did wrong. You can be forgiven for losing, but not for quitting." Later, Vardon consoles Jones: "I've never seen anyone play the game with more grace.
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Jones wins the U.S. Open at Winged Foot in Mamaroneck, New York. Going to the seventeenth hole during the last round, Jones needed two pars just to force a playoff. He got his par and pitched onto the eighteenth green, leaving him with a difficult putt to tie. He made the putt, forcing a thirty-six hole playoff with Al Espinoza. He dominated the playoff and defeated Espinoza by twenty-three strokes.
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Angus: [after Bobby walks off the green during the Britsh Open quitting the competition] You made a mistake laddy. You can be forgiven for losing but you canny be forgiven for qiving up. Not by them mind you
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