The Grand Slam: Bobby Jones, America, and the Story of Golf [NOOK Book]

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The Los Angeles Times bestseller that takes a riveting look at the life and times of golf legend Bobby Jones

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Overview


The Los Angeles Times bestseller that takes a riveting look at the life and times of golf legend Bobby Jones

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In the summer of 1930, American golfer Bobby Jones mounted a historic assault on the record books. In a four-month tear, he won the British Amateur, the British Open, the United States Open, and the United States Amateur championships. And then, at the age of 28, he retired. Mark Frost, the author of The Greatest Game Ever Played, tells the story of the most dominant golfer in history.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
With clear, crisp prose Frost does a great job of bringing Jones' assault on the Grand Slam back to life.
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Scottish Golf Magazine
If you thought you knew the story of Bobby Jones . . ., then think again: this book is the engrossingly definitive account.
Sports Illustrated
Using his instinct for character development to delve into Jones' psyche, Frost identifies what makes Jones interesting and startlingly contemporary.
Publishers Weekly
Before Arnold, Jack and Tiger, there was Bobby. After winning the Grand Slam of golf in 1930, Jones stood like a colossus over the American sporting scene. He is the only individual to have been recognized with two ticker tape parades down Broadway's Canyon of Heroes. Frost (The Greatest Game Ever Played) has written a swift, surefooted account of Jones's remarkable life and career. From Jones's precocious early days on the Atlanta links to his sudden retreat from the media spotlight, Frost covers every detail. The self-taught Jones began playing serious tournaments at 14 and quickly moved into the ranks of the world's best players. In 1930, he won the four major tournaments of the time: the British Amateur, the British Open, the U.S. Open and the U.S. Amateur, which sportswriters dubbed the Grand Slam. Following this success, Jones promptly retired. Later diagnosed with a rare nerve illness, he lived out his life as golf's elder statesman. While Frost's eager prose has an engaging, "you are there" quality, for nongolfers the question is whether they actually do want to be there. Frost strains to place Jones's achievement in the broader context of American history. As bedside reading for the literate duffer, this is a hole in one. For the average reader, it's a bogey. 15 b&w photos. Agent, Ed Victor. (Nov.) Forecast: The Greatest Game (2002) was praised widely, and cross-promos with the USGA and golfing events could help this new book gain traction among Frost's readers. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
Decades later, the name Bobby Jones says it all: a legend. His "grand slam" (winning the Open Championship, British Amateur, U.S. Open, and U.S. Amateur) in 1930 has yet to be duplicated. Frost's current work follows his own The Greatest Game Ever Played, a historical recounting of Jones's predecessors in modern golf: Harry Vardon and Francis Ouimet. Frost does a fine job of recounting the tenor of the times-the economics (the Great Depression), baseball (Babe Ruth and the Sox and Yankees), politics, and life in general. He also chronicles the emergence of influential sportswriters. As a biography, this allows the opportunity to see a Jones with flaws: club-throwing, quick-tongued, a middling real estate salesman. At the same time, Frost shows Jones as a complex person of single-mindedness, honesty, and piety. While not the last biography of Jones, this one is very well done. Highly recommended for all sports collections.-Steven Silkunas, North Wales, PA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781401381813
  • Publisher: Hyperion
  • Publication date: 11/3/2004
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 192
  • Sales rank: 106,220
  • File size: 2 MB

Table of Contents

The Players ix
Prologue xiii
Part 1 Evolution of a Genius
Chapter 1 East Lake 3
Chapter 2 One Wrong Turn 31
Chapter 3 Into the Fray 49
Chapter 4 Finding a Voice 81
Chapter 5 Fate and Nothing Else 125
Part 2 The Championship Years
Chapter 6 Breakthrough 177
Chapter 7 Halfway There 205
Chapter 8 The Battle of the Century 223
Chapter 9 The Americans Are Coming 247
Chapter 10 The Double 267
Chapter 11 Consolidation 283
Chapter 12 Preparation 317
Part 3 The Grand Slam
Chapter 13 The Amateur, St. Andrews 335
Chapter 14 The Open, Hoylake 367
Chapter 15 The U.S. Open, Interlachen 385
Chapter 16 The U.S. Amateur, Merion 415
Chapter 17 Retirement 443
Chapter 18 Decline 461
Acknowledgments 479
A Note on the Writing 481
Index 483

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  • Posted October 29, 2009

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    The Grand Slam is filled with information about the Bobby Jones era of golf history. Bobby Jones was a special person besides being a superb golfer. The fact that he accomplished "the grand slam" as an amateur under grueling conditions and huge crowds, makes it all even more impressive. I enjoyed the read very much.

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