BOBBY JONES WAS A STROKE OF GENIUS AND THE BEST GOLFER WHO WILL EVER LIVE!!!
Robert Tyre “Bobby” Jones Jr. (March 17, 1902 – December 18, 1971) was an American amateur golfer, and a lawyer by profession. Jones was the most successful amateur golfer ever to compete on a national and international level. During his peak as a golfer from 1923 to 1930, he dominated top-level amateur competition, and competed very successfully against the world’s best professional golfers. 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.”[2] 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. & 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, and also co-founded the Masters Tournament, which has been annually staged by the club since 1934 (except for 1943–45, when it was cancelled 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 until 1948, when he quit golf permanently, due to ill health.
BOBBY JONES A STROKE OF GENIUS=MAI FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL-TIME
You realize revealing you like the game makes you a perfect woman! And I didn’t think one existed.
BOBBY JONES WAS A REAL PRO FOR AN AMATEUR GOLFER AND TRUE TO THE GAME OF GOLF!! HE WAS AND STILL REMAINS THE BEST GOLFER WHO EVER EXISTED = THE GRAND SLAM!!! 🙂
BOBBY JONES A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS!!
FRANCIS OUIMET WAS THE OTHER GREAT GOLFER WHO PRESIDED OVER THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED!! NEEDLESS TO SAY, FRANK OUIMET HAD TO FIGHT AN UPHILL BATTLE TO BECOME AN AMATEUR GOLFER DUE TO HIS HUMBLE BEGINNINGS. HOWEVER, HE LOST TO BOBBY JONES THE GREATEST GOLFER AND MAN WHO EVER LIVED! TWO AMAZING “AMATEUR” ATHLETES NONETHELESS AND FRANK OUIMET’S STORY IS UNBELIEVABLE AS WELL! 🙂
Francis DeSales Ouimet (May 8, 1893 – September 2, 1967) was an American golfer, who is frequently referred to as the “father of amateur golf” in the United States. He won the 1913 U.S. Open, and was the first American elected Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.
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