LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Bobby Jones: Grand Slam
built 649 days ago
Bobby Jones wins the Sullivan trophy for becoming the first golfer to win the "Grand Slam." It was the first time the award, which goes to the top amateur athelete in the United States, was presented.
Source:
Jones, born in the Deep South, overcame a sickly childhood to become a golf phenomenon while still a teenager. During his short but incredible career, he won 13 titles, including, in one four-month span, the U.S. Amateur, the U.S. Open, the British Amateur and the British Open. This earned him the title of Grand Slam Champion, a record that still stands. He played only in the summer, otherwise attending college and ultimately becoming a lawyer. He never relinquished his amateur status and retired from competitive golf at age 28.
Source:
During a remarkable eight-year stretch, Jones won 13 major championships: five U.S. Amateurs (1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1930), four United States Opens (1923, 1926, 1929, 1930), three British Opens (1926, 1927, 1930), and a British Amateur title (1930). He was the first player to win both the U.S. and British Open championships in the same year (1927) and the first player to win all four of these major tournaments in one year (1930). Today, Jones’s 1930 season is considered the first and only “grand slam” in golf history.
Source:
In the winter of 1922-23, Jones experienced a metamorphosis; he evolved from a temperamental youth into a disciplined young gentleman on and off the course. He won his first major title, the U.S. Open, later that year to begin his eight-season domination of the sport. Aside from the Grand Slam in 1930, Jones's most impressive achievement is his record in the U.S. Open. In the 1920s, Jones won the event four times and ... had four runner-up finishes.
Source:
[W]hen Jones finally broke through by winning the 1923 U.S. Open, the fat years began. and won 13 of them. His brilliance culminated in 1930 when he won the Grand Slam of the time: the U.S. Open, U.S. Amateur, British Open and British Amateur all in the same year.
Source:
Jones won thirteen major championships, including five U.S. Amateurs, four U.S. Opens, three British Opens, and one British Amateur. On September 27, 1930 he became the only man to win all four major titles in one season, completing the "Grand Slam" of golf. Then, while still in his athletic prime at the age of twenty-eight, he retired from competition to devote more time to his family and his law practice.
Source:
MORE ABOUT
Grand Slam