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Bobby Jones: Golf
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Robert Tyre (Bobby) Jones, Jr., was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He took up golf at age five. Jones quickly became a junior champion and qualified for his first United States Amateur Championship at age 14. He was educated at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Harvard University, and Emory University, eventually earning a law degree.
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Robert Tyre "Bobby" Jones Jr. is born on March 17 to Robert P. and Clara Jones in the Atlanta neighborhood of Grant Park. Jones grows up in the East Lake neighborhood, across the street from the Atlanta Athletic Club's East Lake Golf Course. By the age of six, he is playing golf, mimicking the swing of Scottish golfer and East Lake professional Stewart Maiden.
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More than any player in history, Bobby Jones is the model of the complete golfer. Supremely gifted, Jones was ... a man of vast intelligence and profound character, and he merged all three forces to become not only a singular champion, but a genuine hero. Wrote Herbert Warren Wind, "In the opinion of many people, of all the great athletes, Jones came the closest to being what we called a great man."
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Bobby Jones' accomplishments as a player are unmistakable. From 1923 to 1930 he won thirteen major championships and remains the only player ever to win all four majors in the same year-all before retiring from competitive golf when he was just 28 years old. His playing record alone is the stuff of legends, but the real story of Bobby Jones is so much more. Jones was a great player, a scholar, a family man, a competitor, a writer, a teacher, a golf course designer, and-in all things-a gentleman.
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An argument can be made that Bobby Jones is the greatest golfer who ever lived. But there can be no doubt that Jones is the greatest part-time golfer who ever lived. Because Jones usually only played golf for about three months of the year, traveling to the biggest tournaments during the summer.
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As an amateur, Jones received no prize money for his victories. With nothing more left to accomplish, he retired at age 28 from active competition. In the early 1930s he helped design Augusta National, a private golf course built on a former plant nursery in Augusta, Georgia. In 1934 the course hosted the first Augusta National Invitation Tournament, renamed the Masters in 1939. The tournament became an annual event, attracting the top professional and amateur golfers from around the world. It is still the only major golf tournament held at the same course every year.
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