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Bobby Jones: Golf Digest
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The USGA's award for distinguished sportsmanship is the Bob Jones Award. "What Jones did was create a model that everyone, consciously or unconsciously, followed," said William Campbell. "It is why we have so many fine people in golf. He showed the world how to do it."
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On June 25, during the third round of the British Open, Jones loses his temper and disqualifies himself from the tournament. Both Jones and his historians mark this as the most "transcendent moment of his golfing career." Six years after the incident, Jones wrote in Down the Fairway:
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Herrington's screenplay dutifully attempts to cover all the bases in depicting Jones' career, from his injuring a young woman spectator with a golf club thrown in anger to his suffering from varicose veins. While it earns points for comprehensiveness, the film never seems to find a unified focus and suffers from the episodic nature so endemic to such biopics.
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The film is rated PG for a few instances of bad language, when young Bobby curses several times on the golf course. There's a slightly disturbing scene where Bobby has a breakdown. Otherwise, there's little here to offend young children, though it's probably not appropriate for kids younger than 8 or so—mostly because the content and themes would go right over their heads.
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