1930's Sports | Golf Is My Game

Autobiography

By: Robert Tyre Jones Jr.

Date: 1959

Source: Jones, Robert Tyre Jr. Golf Is My Game. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1959, 163–164.

About the Author: Robert Tyre Jones Jr. (1902–1971), better known as "Bobby," was the most accomplished American amateur golfer of his day or since. He was the only golfer to ever win the Grand Slam of golf, which he did in 1930. However, he never turned pro, choosing instead to work as a lawyer after graduating from Harvard. However, he did go on to help design and found the Masters Tournament in 1934. He died at his home in Atlanta in 1971.

Introduction

Born in Atlanta in 1902, Bobby Jones began competing in national amateur tournaments at age fourteen and retired from active competition just fourteen years later, at age twenty-eight. He won thirteen of the twenty-one major championships that he entered...