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of the Day: Bobby Jones Memoir "Down the Fairway"
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Bobby Jones "Classic" Down the Fairway Back in Print
ATLANTA (Mar. 12, 2001) - As Tiger Woods goes for his fourth consecutive major win at this year's Masters, many will be thinking of Bobby Jones-the only man to ever win the Grand Slam in one calendar year. In honor of this occasion, Longstreet Press is re-releasing Jones' 1927 memoir, Down the Fairway, featuring a brand-new foreword by golf great Jack Nicklaus.
Called an "an incontestable classic" by Sports Illustrated, Down the Fairway by Jones and sports journalist O.B. Keeler, is part memoir, part golf instructional, part golf history. It includes 30 vintage black and white photographs and is infused with Jones' deep knowledge of and pure passion for the game.
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Jones, an Atlanta lawyer and founder of the Augusta National Golf Club, wrote Down the Fairway when he was only 24 years old. He had just become the first golfer ever to win both the U.S. and British Open titles in one year (1926) and thought he would never perform at such a high lever again.
Of course, four years later, when he was 28, he won the Grand Slam.
In the age of big money, lucrative endorsement deals and TV contracts, this volume reminds us of a time when an amateur (i.e., "one who loves") could be the best in the world.
Down the Fairway by Robert T. Jones, Jr. and O.B. Keeler
ISBN: 1-56352-647-6
$24.95/Hardcover/256 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½
Pub Date: April 2001
