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 Bobby Jones (golfer)
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.
Jones was the first player to win The Double, both the US Open and The British Open in the same year (1926).
On his fiftieth birthday a golfer becomes eligible to compete on the Champions Tour, and he is unlikely to add to his tally of PGA Tour wins after that date, although there have been exceptions to this.
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 Bobby Jones
Jones was an inwardly driven perfectionist and placed tremendous pressure on himself, often losing up to fifteen pounds during a tournament as a result of the stress.
Legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice once said Jones had the "face of an angel and the temper of a timber wolf." It was this reputation that brought Jones to perhaps his lowest point as a player, during the 1921 British Open at the Old Course in St. Andrews.
The legendary Bobby Jones was dead at the age of 69.
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 Ann Liguori.com - Bobby Jones Golf Company
The Bobby Jones Golf Company was created to merge the passion, dedication and skill of two men: one legendary, the other, a craftsman who bridges the eras of handmade persimmon woods and high-tech, computer-generated metal wood designs.
Bobby Jones Players is the next generation of technology from an earlier Jesse Ortiz design that became the #1 fairway metal on Tour, from 1998 to 2001.
Bobby Jones Hybrids are also shorter in length to increase accuracy and to truly be long iron replacements…not fairway metal alternatives.
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 ESPN.com: Bobby Jones was golf's fast study
Bobby Jones found success immediately on the golf course, struggled to find himself as a teen and then had seven phenomenal seasons before retiring from the game at age 28 in 1930.
Jones, who had graduated from Georgia Tech and Harvard and was a lawyer in Atlanta, played lots of friendly golf, but he emerged from his retirement only once a year to play The Masters.
In his last years, Jones was confined to a wheelchair because of syringomyelia, a fluid-filled cavity in the spinal cord that caused him first pain, then loss of feeling and muscle atrophy.
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 Bobby Jones (golfer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bobby Jones won the first Grand Slam of golf in 1930.
In 1948 Jones was diagnosed with syringomyelia, a fluid-filled cavity in his spinal cord which caused first pain, then paralysis.
Jones was married in 1924 to the former Mary Rice Malone.
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 Bobby Jones Golfer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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Throughout his life, Jones remained the consummate gentleman, observed by his contemporaries to be comprised of equal proportions of "courtesy, consideration, humanity, bobby jones golfer and humor.
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 Bobby Jones-1920s Golfer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bobby Jones was the highlight golfer of the 1920s.
Jones became the first golfer to win the U.S. Open and the British Open in the same year, 1926.
Bobby Jones won enough money in his short career to retire at age 28 and buy the ranch he had dreamed of.
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 Bobby Jones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bobby’s love for golf and unusual natural ability began at a very early age when he and his family moved to their summer home near East Lake Country Club, eventually leading to his trademark swing despite having never had formal lessons.
Upon entering the competitive world of golf, Jones won his very first tournament at the age of 6, and continued to prosper from then on.
Perhaps Bobby Jones' greatest legacy to the game of golf was his design of Augusta National.
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 Bobby Jones (golfer) Summary
Born in Atlanta in 1902, Jones was the son of attorney Robert Jones and his wife Clara.
However, it appears that during this time, Jones, a perfectionist prone to bursts of anger, learned to control his emotions so well that throughout the remainder of his career he would be known for his sportsmanship and decorum on the course.
After his retirement from golf, Jones made twelve instructional films, worked with A.G. Spalding and Co. to develop the first set of matched clubs, co-designed the Augusta National course with Alister MacKenzie and was one of the founders of The Masters Tournament, first played at Augusta in 1934.
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The young Bobby Jones, as told in "The Grand Slam," was a golfing child prodigy whose insatiable drive for perfection brought about fits of club-throwing tantrums that nearly derailed his career.
Jones overcame emotional challenges, health problems and other great golfers in his quest for the four titles in a single year (a record that stands today).
Jones, born in the Deep South, overcame a sickly childhood to become a golf phenomenon while still a teenager.
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 KINNOPIO - Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
Jones, rather, is depicted by the movie as a man with two dimensions: a tightly-wound disposition and a penchant for self-sacrifice, both of which feel as bland and removed as the movie’s overall portrait of its hero but are supposed to make his accomplishments on the golf course all the more outstanding.
Jones was the greatest golfer of his time (and, with the possible exception of Jack Nicklaus, the greatest of all time), and that he would win all four majors seems inevitable rather than exciting.
Bobby Jones is at its best when it’s on the golf course, even though Herrington quickly uses up his bag of tricks and is forced to resort to many of the same shots several times over.
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 Bobby jones - golfer extraordinaire
Jones continued to attend the Masters tournament after he became paralyzed in his arms and in his legs in a wheelchair.
Bobby Jones actually was the recipient of two ticker-tape parades in New York City.
One of the greatest golfers of the 20th century died on December 18, 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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 Bobby Jones Open
Bobby Jones was a sick child and was unable to eat solid food until he was five years old.
The Bobby Jones Open has contributed to their organizations with the fervent hope that a remedy or at least some relief can be found in the not too distant future.
Beginning in the spring of 1992, the Syringomyelia Hotline was established by the Bobby Jones Open in conjunction with the Beaumont Foundation and in support of ASAP goals.
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 Bobby Jones
Following his victory in the British Open, golfer Bobby Jones is the guest of honor at a New Yok ticker type parade.
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.
Perhaps the greatest golfer ever, Robert Tyre ("Bobby") Jones was named for his grandfather, a successful businessman whose general store was the largest north of Atlanta.
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 OhioPix: Places   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Golfer Bobby Jones (1902-1971) photographed at the Scioto Country Club, Columbus, on July 8, 1926.
Golfer Bobby Jones (1902-1971) putting on a green at the Scioto Country Club during the U.S. Open, July 1926.
Golfer Bobby Jones (1902-1971) receiving the U.S. Open championship cup from USGA officials on July 10, 1926.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bobby Jones (golfer)
(March 17, 1902 – December 18, 1971), born in Atlanta, Georgia, was one of the greatest golfers who ever competed on a national and international level.
Jones also had a unique relationship with the town of St Andrews, Scotland.
After his retirement from golf, Jones made eighteen instructional films, worked with A.G. Spalding & Co. to develop the first set of matched clubs, co-designed the Augusta National course with Alister MacKenzie and was one of the founders of The Masters Tournament, first played at Augusta in 1934.
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 USCCB - (Film and Broadcasting) - Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
Such is the case with "Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius" (Film Foundry), a handsomely crafted biopic about the man many consider the greatest golfer ever to play the game.
What makes Jones such an interesting character study is that his legendary golf career was only one aspect of a remarkably multifaceted life.
While a closing coda informs viewers that during World War II Jones allowed Army livestock to graze on the luxurious greens of Augusta National Golf Club (a private course he built in the 1930s), no mention is given to the fact that African-Americans were not admitted as members until 1991.
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 Bobby Jones
From 1923 to 1930 he won thirteen major championships and remains the only player ever to win all four majors in the same year-all before retiring from competitive golf when he was just 28 years old.
Jones was a great player, a scholar, a family man, a competitor, a writer, a teacher, a golf course designer, and-in all things-a gentleman.
The great sportswriter Grantland Rice once said, "Bobby Jones is not one in a million personsÂ…I should say he is one in ten million-or perhaps one in fifty million." Indeed, one of the most fascinating and timeless stories in all of sports is the legend of Bobby Jones.
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 Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Jones retired from golf after this incredible feat to concentrate on a career in law, but not before helping design the world famous Augusta gold course in his home state of Georgia.
Rowdy Herrington’s film Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius is a straightforward biopic starring Jim Caviezel (hot from The Passion of the Christ) as Jones, Claire Forlani as his wife Mary, Jeremy Northam as fellow golfer Walter Hagen, and Malcolm McDowell as O.B. Keeler, the man who would eventually go on to write Jones’s biography.
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius is a typical Horner Gaelic/Celtic score, with all the tricks and traps we all know and love from scores such as Braveheart, The Devil’s Own, Titanic, and others.
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 Biography of Legendary Golfer Bobby Jones - Associated Content   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Bobby Jones was the greatest amateur golfer in the history of the sport.
Unlike the vast majority of talented golfers that become professionals, Bobby Jones chose to forgo lucrative tournament purses in favor of maintaining his amateur status.
Despite being an amateur, Bobby Jones was better than any professional golfer of his generation and arguably the greatest golfer of all-time.
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 Masters 2004 presented by Augusta.com - Bobby Jones: The man, the myth and now the movie come to life
Bobby Jones: The man, the myth and now the movie come to life
On April 30, Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius, a biography of Jones' early life and career, will be released theatrically.
He said the sport Jones is best remembered for was only a fraction of what made Jones the man an interesting film challenge.
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 Bobby Jones Golfer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
I often think of Bobby Jones, unquestionably the greatest golfer of the first half of the twentieth century and perhaps the greatest golfer of all time.
Bobby Jones has won 13 majors, won a Grand Slam and created the Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters tournament.
Bobby Jones was for a time referred to as "the Best Golfer in the World...
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 Walking Billboards - Bobby Jones The Movie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Jones became a lawyer, designed the Augusta National Golf Club and helped organize the Masters tournament at Augusta before he was diagnosed with a degenerative neurological disease.
The investors created the Bobby Jones Film Foundation to orchestrate 70 charity screenings that also generate grass-roots interest in the low-budget film.
Cast: Jim Caviezel as Bobby Jones; Claire Forlani as wife Mary Jones; Jeremy Northam as golfer Walter Hagen; Malcolm McDowell as Atlanta Journal sports reporter O.B. Keeler.
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 ESPN Classic - Bobby Jones was golf's fast study
Bobby Jones won the Grand Slam in 1930 and remains the only golfer to accomplish the feat.
Jones liked to describe a dangerous shot that only a golfer with real guts could pull off as a shot that required "sheer delicatessen." Perhaps no shot in his distinguished career was more "sheer delicatessen." With his two-iron, he drilled the ball over the water and to within eight feet of the pin.
That two-iron started Jones on his magnificent eight-year run against the best golfers in the world.
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 Bobby comes in swinging - www.theage.com.au
Jones dominated the game in the 1920s before shocking the world by retiring at age 28.
McDowell, an avid golfer for the past three years and most widely known for starring in Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, co-stars in Stroke as O.B. Keeler, the real-life Atlanta Journal reporter who followed Jones during his career.
It was full of old photos of Jones visiting St Andrews in 1936 and playing a round of golf in front of 4000 people, who amassed at the course once rumours spread that Jones was there.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/10/14/1065917394196.html   (1009 words)

  
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After all, Bobby Jones became famous for his golf swing, not his days in court.
Jones happened to start golf at the age of seven, and at that plastic age copied a model who had a sound, compact swing.
So Bobby got the right start and the instincts of correct swinging planted in his system before he had a chance to develop any faults.
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