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Bobby Jones (golfer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (461 words) |
 | Jones was the first player to win The Double, both the US Open and The Open Championship (British Open) in the same year. |
| Bobby Jones along with Alister McKenzie designed the Augusta National golf course and started The Masters golf tournament held at Augusta each year. |
| Jones is considered one of the five giants of 1920s professional sports, along with baseball player Babe Ruth, boxer Jack Dempsey, football player Red Grange, and tennis player Bill Tilden. |
| ESPN Classic - Bobby Jones was golf's fast study (1345 words) |
| 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. |
| Jones, who had graduated 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 in 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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