Bobby Jones on Golf

Author: Bobby Jones
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9781886947214
Category : Golf
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A player who never turned pro but held one or more major titles every year of his 15-season competitive career, Bobby Jones was the most famous amateur golfer ever to play the game. In the 20 years since his death, America has witnessed an explosion of enthusiasm for golf. Now comes a reissue of Jones' classic instructional, out of print and unavailable for two decades. Line drawings.

Golf is My Game

Author: Bobby Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Golf
Languages : en
Pages : 264

Book Description
Bobby Jones' story of his life in golf, with his advice on improving one's game. Instructions about striking the ball, handling clubs, swings, etc.

Down the Fairway

Author: Bobby Jones
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Golf
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description

The Grand Slam

Author: Mark Frost
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 140551180X
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description
In the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, an amateur golfer began a decade of unparalleled achievement, seeming a ray of light in an otherwise depressed America. Bobby Jones won the British Amateur Championship, the British Open, the US Open and the US Amateur Championship. A new phrase was born: The Grand Slam. A modest, sensitive man, a lawyer from a middle-class Atlanta family, Bobby Jones had barely survived a sickly childhood, and took up golf at the age of five for health reasons. Jones made his debut at the US Amateur Championship in 1916 and his genius was recognised by his inspiration, Francis Ouimet. However, his health was never good, and the strain of completing the Slam exacted a ferocious toll; the US Open, played in July in blazing heat, nearly killed him. Jones fought to keep his fragile condition a secret from a country suffering from the Depression, but at the age of twenty-eight, after winning the US Amateur, he retired. His abrupt disappearance at the height of his renown inspired an impenetrable myth, to this day still fiercely protected by family and friends.

Bobby Jones and the Quest for the Grand Slam

Author: Catherine M. Lewis
Publisher: Triumph Books (IL)
ISBN: 9781572437289
Category : DVD-Video discs
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The newly updated version of the phenomally detailed examination of the legend's career and life is augmented with a brand new DVD with exclusive museum archival footage in a specially produced documentary.

Sir Walter and Mr. Jones

Author: Stephen R. Lowe
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN:
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
Beginnings, 1888-1912 -- Going public, 1913-1916 -- War, metamorphosis, and megaphones, 1917-1919 -- Big debuts, bigger disappointments, 1920-1921 -- "Sweet revenge" and Calamity Jane, 1922-1923 -- "The greatest ever" and a return to Merion, 1924-1925 -- Passing the crowns, 1926-1927 -- The "Atlanta golf machine" and the "lion-tamer," 1928-1929 -- Completing the cycle," 1930 -- A has-been and a gentleman, 1931-1959.

Bobby's Open

Author: Jack Nicklaus
Publisher: Corinthian
ISBN: 9781906850531
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The inspirational story of a golfing legend and one of the game's defining contests.

Classic Instruction

Author: Bobby Jones
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781888531060
Category : Golf
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Drawn from a recently discovered archive, this landmark book is a treasure. It was born from an overlooked box at the Jones law firm that included more than 100 photos of Bobby Jones demonstrating the fundamentals of golf, along with his meticulous notes on yellow legal pads that were originally written in 1934.

How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time

Author: Tommy Armour
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684813793
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 164

Book Description
Tommy Armour's classic How to Play Your Best Golf All the time provides advice and instruction on a variety of subjects. Going step-by-step through many aspects of golf technique, from teeing off to putting, Armour gives timeless advice -- accompanied by over four dozen illustrations.

Bobby Jones on Golf

Author: Robert Tyre Jones
Publisher: Main Street Books
ISBN: 0307482359
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
From the best amateur golfer ever to play the game comes an essential instructional guide for any golfer. Bobby Jones is universally acknowledged to have been the best amateur golfer of all time. He held at least one major title every season of his career and electrified the world with his 1930 Grand Slam, winning all four major amateur and open tournaments in the United States and Great Britain. Bobby Jones on Golf is a distillation of all that he learned about playing golf over more than half a century of devotion to amateur competition. Drawing both on the practical and the theoretical, this classic work addresses such topics as the feel of the club, placing the feet, using the body, and cultivating the proper backswing. Like the author's impeccable reputation, Bobby Jones on Golf is as timeless as the game itself.