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A national hero and the most popular sportsman in American history. His swift play entertained his many admirers who
flocked around him during his many competition appearances to witness his full flowing , smooth, graceful and rhythmical swing.
A true amateur with a record that finds a place in golf history.

Golf was his passion but Bobby Jones steadfastly withstood the pull of professional golf,
preferring to earn his living from his legal practice during his playing career.

Starting out life as a sickly infant he was introduced to golf at the age of five.
Progress was swift and by the age of fourteen was playing in the quarter finals of the US Amateur Championship.

Winning his first Open Championship in 1923 took him well on the way to becoming the greatest player of his era.

In 1930 at the relatively young age of twenty eight and having established himself as one of, if not the best ever player of all time
and the only player to achieve the Grand Slam, winning in one year the Open and Amateur Championships of America and Britain,
and with no more worlds left to conquer Bobby Jones left the competitive stage of golf forever.

A great loss it may have been to the competitive scene but the amateur golfer who, although he attracted great numbers of people around him,
disliked crowds, carried on to fulfill his own dream. And what a dream it was - to build a private golf course for himself and his friends.

The fulfillment of that dream is the Augusta National Golf Course which has become the permanent home of the US Masters since 1934.

What better legacy could one man give to the game of golf.
A remarkable player with undoubted ability and charisma, a golf course of outstanding beauty and cunning design ,
plus a competition that of the US Masters one of today's major championships that is coveted by golfers around the world.

The name of Bobby Jones will live on for ever amongst the golfers of the world - and rightly so.