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Bobby Jones: Grand Slam
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In purely mortal terms, Bobby Jones was a singular individual; he has been called the greatest golfer who ever lived. He’s ... been called the last great amateur, and his crowning achievement, the Grand Slam of golf tournaments (the U.S. Open, the British Open, the U.S. Amateur and the British Amateur), not only has never been duplicated, but isn’t even open to professionals like Tiger Woods.
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When Bobby Jones won all four majors in 1930, the sports world searched for ways to capture the magnitude of his accomplishment. Up to that time, there was no term to describe such a feat because no one had thought it possible. The Atlanta Journal's O.B. Keeler dubbed it the "Grand Slam," borrowing a bridge term. George Trevor of the New York Sun wrote that Jones had "stormed the impregnable quadrilateral of golf."
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In 1930 Bobby Jones accomplished one of the most amazing feats in sports history, the Grand Slam of Golf. In honor of these championships the British Course front nine is named for his British Amateur victory at St. Andrews and the back nine for his British Open success at Hoylake. The American Course honors Jones' championships in the U.S. Amateur at Merion and the U.S. Open at Interlachen. Jones is the only golfer to have won all of these major championships in the same year.
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Bobby Jones was born March 17, 1902, in Atlanta, Georgia. By the time he was 12 he was the Georgia state champion, and in 1921 he became the youngest member of the U.S. Walker Cup team when it journeyed to England. Between 1923 and 1930 he won five U.S. amateur titles, four U.S. Opens, three British Opens, and one British amateur title. He won the "Grand Slam" - four separate tournaments consisting of amateur and professional championships in the United States and England - in 1930. Meanwhile he earned a law degree from Emory University, following degrees from what is now Georgia Tech and from Harvard University.
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Jones was a child prodigy who won his first children's tournament at the age of six and made the third round of the U.S. Amateur Championship at fourteen. As a youth he struggled with his temperament, but he hit his stride in 1923, when he won his first U.S. Open. From that win at Inwood through his 1930 victory in the U.S. Amateur he won 13 Major Championships (as they were counted at that time) out of twenty attempts, ranking him behind only Jack Nicklaus' 20 wins and Tiger Woods' 14 wins. Jones was the first player to win The Double, both the US Open and the British Open in the same year (1926). He is still the only player ever to have won the Grand Slam, or all four major championships in the same year. He represented the United States in the Walker Cup five times, winning nine of his ten matches.
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Jones returns to the Merion Cricket Club, the site of both his first U.S. Amateur competition and victory to try and complete the Grand Slam. He won the medal in the qualifying round with a record 142. In the first round he met Canadian Amateur Champion Sandy Sommerville. It was a close match, but Jones prevailed 5 and 4. In the afternoon match, Jones defeated another Canadian, Fred Hoblitzel, 5 and 4. In the Thursday quarterfinal, Jones beat Fay Colemen by a score of 6 and 5.
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