Bobby Jones (golfer)
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Personal information | |
Full name | Robert Tyre Jones Jr. |
Born | Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. | March 17, 1902
Died | December 18, 1971 Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. | (aged 69)
Height | 5 ft 8 in (173 cm) |
Weight | 165 lb (75 kg; 11.8 st) |
Sporting nationality | United States |
Spouse |
Mary Rice Malone (m. 1924) |
Children | 3 |
Career | |
College | |
Georgia Tech Engineering Hall of Fame | 1997[2] |
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Allegiance | European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal |
Robert Tyre Jones Jr. (March 17, 1902 – December 18, 1971) was an American amateur golfer who was one of the most influential figures in the history of the sport; he was also a lawyer by profession. Jones founded and helped design the Augusta National Golf Club, and co-founded the Masters Tournament. The innovations that he introduced at the Masters have been copied by virtually every professional golf tournament in the world.
Jones was the most successful amateur golfer ever to compete at a national and international level. During his peak from 1923 to 1930, he dominated top-level amateur competition, and competed very successfully against the world's best professional golfers.[5] Jones often beat stars such as Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen, the era's top pros. Jones earned his living mainly as a lawyer, and competed in golf only as an amateur, primarily on a part-time basis, and chose to retire from competition at age 28, though he earned significant money from golf after that, as an instructor and equipment designer.
Explaining his decision to retire, Jones said, "It [championship golf] is something like a cage. First you are expected to get into it and then you are expected to stay there. But of course, nobody can stay there."[6] Jones is most famous for his unique "Grand Slam," consisting of his victory in all four major golf tournaments of his era (the open and amateur championships in both the U.S. and the U.K.) in a single calendar year (1930). In all Jones played in 31 majors, winning 13 and placing among the top ten finishers 27 times.
After retiring from competitive golf in 1930, Jones founded and helped design the Augusta National Golf Club soon afterwards in 1933. He also co-founded the Masters Tournament, which has been annually staged by the club since 1934 (except for 1943–45, when it was canceled due to World War II). The Masters evolved into one of golf's four major championships. Jones came out of retirement in 1934 to play in the Masters on an exhibition basis through 1948. Jones played his last round of golf at East Lake Golf Club, his home course in Atlanta, on August 18, 1948. A picture commemorating the event now sits in the clubhouse at East Lake. Citing health reasons, he quit golf permanently thereafter. Jones suffered from a rare neurological condition called syringomyelia, which eventually robbed him of the ability to walk.[7] He died of cardiovascular disease in 1971.[8]
Bobby Jones was often confused with the prolific golf course designer Robert Trent Jones, with whom he worked from time to time. "People always used to get them confused, so when they met, they decided each be called something different," Robert Trent Jones Jr. said. To help avoid confusion, the golfer was called "Bobby," and the golf course designer was called "Trent."[9]
Early life
Jones was born on March 17, 1902, in
He was influenced by club professional
Jones successfully represented the United States for the first time, in two winning international amateur team matches against Canada, in 1919 and 1920, earning three of a possible four points in foursomes and singles play. In 1919 he traveled to
Jones qualified for his first
Golf
First majors
As an adult, he hit his stride and won his first U.S. Open in 1923. From that win at New York's Inwood Country Club, through his 1930 victory in the U.S. Amateur, he won 13 major championships (as they were counted at the time) in 21 attempts.[20] Jones was the first player to win "The Double", both the U.S. and British Open Championships in the same year (1926). He was the second (and last) to win the U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur in the same year (1930), first accomplished in 1916 by Chick Evans.[21] Jones also won both the British Amateur and British Open Championships in 1930, and is the second golfer in history after John Ball to win those two tournaments in the same year.
1930: Grand Slam
Jones is the only player ever to have won the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam, or all four major championships, in the same calendar year (1930). Jones's path to the 1930 Grand Slam title was:
- The Amateur Championship, Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland (May 31, 1930)
- The Open Championship, Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, England (June 20, 1930)
- U.S. Open, Interlachen Country Club, Minnesota (July 12, 1930)
- U.S. Amateur, Merion Golf Club, Pennsylvania (September 27, 1930[22])
Jones made a bet on himself achieving this feat with British bookmakers early in 1930, before the first tournament of the Slam, at odds of 50–1, and collected over $60,000 when he did it.[23]
Walker Cup
Jones represented the United States in the Walker Cup five times, winning nine of his 10 matches, and the U.S. won the trophy all five times. He served as playing captain of the U.S. team in 1928 and 1930. He also won two other tournaments against professionals: the 1927 Southern Open and the 1930 Southeastern Open. Jones was a lifelong member of the Atlanta Athletic Club (at the club's original site, now the East Lake Golf Club), and the Capital City Club in Atlanta.[citation needed]
Sportsmanship
In the first round of the 1925 U.S. Open at the Worcester Country Club near Boston, his approach shot to the 11th hole's elevated green fell short into the deep rough of the embankment. As he took his stance to pitch onto the green, the head of his club brushed the grass and caused a slight movement of the ball. He took the shot, then informed his playing partner Walter Hagen and the USGA official covering their match that he was calling a penalty on himself. Hagen was unable to talk him out of it, and they continued play. After the round and before he signed his scorecard, officials argued with Jones but he insisted that he had violated Rule 18, moving a ball at rest after address, and took a 77 instead of the 76 he otherwise would have carded. Jones's self-imposed one-stroke penalty eventually cost him the win by a stroke in regulation, necessitating a playoff, which he then lost. Although praised by many sports writers for his gesture, Jones was reported to have said, "You might as well praise me for not robbing banks."[24][25][26][27]
A similar event occurred in the next U.S. Open, played at the Scioto Country Club in Columbus, Ohio. In the second round, after his opening round put him in second place, Jones was putting on the 15th green in the face of a strong wind. After grounding his putter during address to square up the club face, the ball rolled a half turn in the wind when Jones lifted the club head to place it behind the ball. Although no one else observed this movement of the ball either, again Jones called a penalty on himself, but this time Jones went on to win the tournament, the second of his four U.S. Open victories.[28][29]
St Andrews, Scotland
Jones had a unique relationship with the town of
Turned professional
In September 1930, a month and a half after his final
Masters Tournament
Jones played in the first dozen Masters, through 1948, but only in the first as a contender. By then, his health at age 46 had declined to the stage where this was no longer possible. With his health difficulties, being past his prime, and not competing elsewhere to stay in tournament form, he never truly contended at the Masters, although his scores were usually respectable. These were almost all ceremonial performances, since his main duty was as host of the event. His extraordinary popularity, efforts with the course design, and tournament organization boosted the profile of the Masters significantly. The tournament, jointly run by Jones and Clifford Roberts, made many important innovations that became the norm elsewhere, such as gallery ropes to control the flow of the large crowds, many scoreboards around the course, the use of red / green numbers on those scoreboards to denote under / over par scores, an international field of top players, high-caliber television coverage, and week-long admission passes for patrons, which became extremely hard to obtain. The tournament also sought and welcomed feedback from players, fans, and writers, leading to continual improvement over the years. The Masters gradually evolved to being one of the most respected tournaments in the world, one of the four major championships.[34]
Augusta National Golf Club
Following his retirement from competitive golf in 1930, and even in the years leading up to that, Jones had become one of the most famous sports figures in the world and was recognized virtually everywhere he went. While certainly appreciative of the enormous adulation and media coverage, this massive attention caused Jones to lose his privacy in golf circles, and he wished to create a private golf club where he and his friends could play golf in peace and quiet. For several years, he searched for a property near Atlanta where he could develop his own golf club. His friend Clifford Roberts, a New York City investment dealer, knowing of Jones's desire, became aware of a promising property for sale in Augusta, Georgia, where Jones's mother-in-law[35] had grown up, and informed Jones about it.[34] Jones first visited Fruitlands, an Augusta arboretum and indigo plantation since the Civil War era, in the spring of 1930,[23] and he purchased it for $70,000 in 1931, with the plan to design a golf course on the site.[36]
Jones co-designed the Augusta National course with Alister MacKenzie. The new club opened in early 1933 with the purpose of hosting golf tournaments. Jones had hoped the U.S Open could be played at Augusta, but the course conditions were not suitable in the summer when the Open was played. Grantland Rice, editor of American Golfer, made the suggestion to hold a tournament for sports writers who were returning home after attending spring training in Florida. The tournament was held in March 1934. The new tournament, originally known as the Augusta National Invitational, was an immediate success and attracted most of the world's top players right from its start. Jones came out of retirement to play, essentially on an exhibition basis, and his presence guaranteed enormous media attention, boosting the new tournament's fame. In 1939, the tournament was renamed The Masters. The Masters, one of the best-known golf tournaments, is part of the modern Grand Slam.[34][37]
Later, in 1947, he founded Peachtree Golf Club in Atlanta and co-designed the course with Robert Trent Jones.[38]
Tournament wins (34)
- 1908 East Lake Children's Tournament
- 1911 Junior Championship Cup of the Atlanta Athletic Club
- 1915 Invitation Tournament at Roebuck Springs, Birmingham Country Club Invitation, Davis & Freeman Cup at East Lake, East Lake Club Championship, Druid Hills Club Championship
- 1916 Georgia Amateur, Birmingham Country Club Invitation, Cherokee Club Invitation, East Lake Invitational
- 1917 Southern Amateur
- 1919 Yates-Gode Tournament
- 1920 Davis & Freeman Cup at East Lake, Southern Amateur, Morris County Invitational
- 1922 Southern Amateur
- 1923 U.S. Open
- 1924 U.S. Amateur
- 1925 U.S. Amateur
- 1926 The Open Championship, U.S. Open
- 1927 Southern Open, U.S. Amateur
- 1928 Warren K. Wood Memorial, U.S. Amateur
- 1929 U.S. Open
- 1930 Southeastern Open, U.S. Amateur
Open and amateur-only majors shown in bold.
Major championships
Wins (13)
The Opens (7)
Year | Championship | 54 holes | Winning score | Margin | Runner(s)-up |
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1923 | U.S. Open | 3 shot lead | +8 (71–73–76–76=296) | Playoff 1 | Bobby Cruickshank |
1926 | The Open Championship | 2 shot deficit | (72–72–73–74=291) | 2 strokes | Al Watrous |
1926 | U.S. Open | 3 shot deficit | +5 (70–79–71–73=293) | 1 stroke | Joe Turnesa |
1927 | The Open Championship | 4 shot lead | (68–72–73–72=285) | 6 strokes | Aubrey Boomer, Fred Robson |
1929 | U.S. Open | 3 shot lead | +6 (69–75–71–79=294) | Playoff 2 | Al Espinosa |
1930 | The Open Championship | 1 shot deficit | (70–72–74–75=291) | 2 strokes | Leo Diegel, Macdonald Smith |
1930 | U.S. Open | 5 shot lead | −1 (71–73–68–75=287) | 2 strokes | Macdonald Smith |
1 Defeated Bobby Cruickshank in an 18-hole playoff: Jones 76 (+4), Cruickshank 78 (+6).
2 Defeated Al Espinosa in a 36-hole playoff: Jones 72–69=141 (−3), Espinosa 84–80=164 (+20).
The Amateurs (6)
Year | Championship | Winning score | Runner-up |
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1924 | U.S. Amateur |
9 & 8 | George Von Elm |
1925 | U.S. Amateur | 8 & 7 | Watts Gunn |
1927 | U.S. Amateur | 8 & 7 | Chick Evans |
1928 | U.S. Amateur | 10 & 9 | Philip Perkins |
1930 | The Amateur Championship | 7 & 6 | Roger Wethered |
1930 | U.S. Amateur | 8 & 7 | Eugene V. Homans |
National Amateur championships were counted as majors at the time. Jones' actual major total using the standard in place in his lifetime was 13.
U.S. national team appearances: amateur
- Walker Cup: 1922 (winners), 1924 (winners), 1926 (winners), 1928 (winners, playing captain), 1930 (winners, playing captain)[40]
Results timeline
The majors of Jones' time (those for which as an amateur he was eligible) were the U.S. and British Opens and Amateurs.
Tournament | 1916 | 1917 | 1918 | 1919 | 1920 | 1921 | 1922 | 1923 | 1924 | 1925 | 1926 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 |
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U.S. Open | NT | NT | T8 | T5 | T2 LA | 1 LA | 2 LA | 2 LA | 1 LA | T11 LA | 2 LA | 1 LA | 1 LA | ||
The Open Championship | NT | NT | NT | NT | WD | 1 LA | 1 LA | 1 LA | |||||||
U.S. Amateur
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QF | NT | NT | 2 M | SF | QF | SF | R16 M | 1 | 1 | 2 M | 1 M | 1 | R32 M | 1 M |
The Amateur Championship | NT | NT | NT | NT | R32 | QF | 1 |
Jones retired after his Grand Slam in 1930, playing only his own tournament, The Masters. As an amateur golfer, he was not eligible to compete in the PGA Championship.
Tournament | 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 |
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Masters Tournament | T13 | T25 | 33 | T29 | T16 | T33 | WD | 40 | T28 | NT | NT | NT | T32 | T55 | 50 |
M = Medalist
LA = Low amateur
NT = No tournament
WD = Withdrew
R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which Jones lost in amateur match play
"T" indicates a tie for a place
Sources for U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur,[41] British Open,[42] 1921 British Amateur,[43] 1926 British Amateur,[44] 1930 British Amateur,[45] and The Masters.[46]
Summary
Tournament | Wins | 2nd | 3rd | Top-5 | Top-10 | Top-25 | Events | Cuts made |
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Masters Tournament | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | – |
U.S. Open | 4 | 4 | 0 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
The Open Championship | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 |
U.S. Amateur |
5 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 13 |
The Amateur Championship | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | – |
Totals | 13 | 6 | 2 | 25 | 27 | 33 | 43 | 27 |
- Most consecutive cuts made – 21 (1916 U.S. Amateur – 1930 U.S. Amateur)
- Longest streak of top-10s – 14 (1921 U.S. Open – 1926 U.S. Amateur)
Other records
Jones's four titles in the U.S. Open remain tied for the most ever in that championship, along with Willie Anderson, Ben Hogan, and Jack Nicklaus. His four-second-place finishes in the U.S. Open place him second all-time with Sam Snead and Nicklaus. Phil Mickelson holds the record with six (1999, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2013) second-place finishes. His five titles in the U.S. Amateur are a record. Jones was ranked as the fourth greatest golfer of all time by Golf Digest magazine in 2000. Nicklaus was first, Hogan second, and Snead third.[47] Jones was ranked as the third greatest golfer of all time in a major survey published by Golf Magazine, September 2009. Nicklaus was ranked first, with Tiger Woods second, Hogan fourth, and Snead fifth.[48]
Films
Jones appeared in a series of short instructional films produced by
The films were popular, and Jones gave up his amateur status while earning lucrative contract money for this venture.
Actors and actresses, mostly under contract with Warner Brothers, but also from other studios, volunteered to appear in these 18 episodes. Some of the more well-known actors to appear in the instructional plots included
Title list of the shorts
How I Play Golf[50]
- The Putter (April 26, 1931, Film Daily review)
- Chip Shots (April 26)
- The Niblick (May 31)
- The Mashie Niblick (June 5)
- Medium Irons (July 5)
- The Big Irons (July 12)
- The Spoon (July 19)
- The Brassie (August 1)
- The Driver (August 30)
- Trouble Shots (September 13)
- Practice Shots (September 27)
- A Round of Golf (September 4)
How To Break 90[50]
- The Grip (April 17, 1933)
- Position and Backswing (May 15)
- Hip Action (May 20)
- Down Swing (The Downswing) (May 29)
- Impact (July 15)
- Fine Points (August 5)
Jones was the subject of the quasi-biographical 2004 feature film
Books
Jones authored several books on golf including Down the Fairway with Oscar Bane "O.B." Keeler (1927), The Rights and Wrongs of Golf (1933), Golf Is My Game (1959), Bobby Jones on Golf (1966), and Bobby Jones on the Basic Golf Swing (1968) with illustrator Anthony Ravielli. The 300-copy limited edition of Down the Fairway is considered one of the rarest and most sought-after golf books by collectors. To keep this book readily available to golfers, Herbert Warren Wind included a reproduction of Down the Fairway in his Classics of Golf Library.[51]
Jones has been the subject of several books, most notably The Bobby Jones Story and A Boy's Life of Bobby Jones, both by O.B. Keeler. Other notable texts are The Life and Times of Bobby Jones: Portrait of a Gentleman by Sidney L. Matthew, The Greatest Player Who Never Lived by J. Michael Veron, and Triumphant Journey: The Saga of Bobby Jones and the Grand Slam of Golf by Richard Miller. Published in 2006, The Grand Slam by Mark Frost has received much note as being evocative of Jones's life and times.[citation needed]
Honors
- Jones was on the cover of Time magazine on August 31, 1925.
- In 1930, he received the first James E. Sullivan Award, awarded annually by the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) to the most outstanding amateur athlete in the United States.[52]
- In 1981, the U.S. Postal Service issued an 18-cent stamp commemorating Jones.[53]
- Jones is considered one of the five giants of the 1920s American sports scene, along with baseball's Babe Ruth, boxing's Jack Dempsey, football's Red Grange, and tennis player Bill Tilden.[54][55][56]
- He is the only sports figure to receive two ticker-tape parades in New York City, the first in 1926 and the second in 1930.
- Jones is memorialized with a statue in Augusta, Georgia, at the Golf Gardens [57]
- The Bobby Jones Expressway, also known as Interstate 520, is named after him.[58]
- The Georgia Phi chapter house at Georgia Tech is named in his honor.[citation needed]
- Jones was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.[59]
- A special room is dedicated to Jones's life and accomplishments at the United States Golf Association Museum and Arnold Palmer Center for Golf History in Far Hills, New Jersey.[citation needed]
- The USGA's sportsmanship award is named the Bob Jones Award in his honor.
- In 1966, the governing board and membership of Augusta National passed a resolution naming Jones President in Perpetuity.[60]
- He was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1964.[61]
Personal
Jones married Mary Rice Malone in 1924, whom he met in 1919 while a freshman at Georgia Tech. They had three children: Clara Malone, Robert Tyre III (1926–1973), and Mary Ellen (b. 1931).[62][63][64][65]
When he retired from golf at age 28, he concentrated on his Atlanta law practice.[66]
During
In 1948, Jones was diagnosed with syringomyelia, a fluid-filled cavity in the spinal cord that causes crippling pain, then paralysis; he was eventually restricted to a wheelchair. He died in Atlanta on December 18, 1971, three days after converting to Catholicism.[64] Jones was baptized on his deathbed by Monsignor John D. Stapleton, rector of the Cathedral of Christ the King in Atlanta, and attended by the Jones family was buried in Atlanta's historic Oakland Cemetery.[69]
His widow Mary died less than four years later in 1975 at age 72, following the death of their son, Robert T. Jones III, of a heart attack in 1973 at age 47.[70]
Founded in 2013, Jones Global Sports designs, develops, and sells apparel, accessories and golf equipment. The company has an exclusive, worldwide license agreement with the family of Bobby Jones (known as Jonesheirs, Inc.) for the use of the Bobby Jones name.[71]
In 2019 the family of Bobby Jones partnered with the Chiari & Syringomyelia Foundation to form the
See also
- Bobby Jones Open
- Career Grand Slam champions
- List of golfers with most PGA Tour wins
- List of men's major championships winning golfers
- List of ticker-tape parades in New York City
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External links
- bobbyjones.com
- Bobby Jones Receives Freedom Of St. Andrews (1958) (archive film from the Scottish Screen Archive)
- Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Bobby Jones collection, 1920–2002
- Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University: Bobby Jones collection and research files, 1862–2015
- Jones with Grand Slam Trophies
- Bobby Jones Chiari & Syringomyelia Foundation
- Bobby Jones Classic