bobby jones

     

He was the first man to win golf's Grand Slam & the first to receive 2 Broadway ticker-tape parades

Trivia about bobby jones

  • In 1930 he became the first & only man to sweep golf's four Grand Slam tournaments
  • In 1930 this golfer became the first recipient of the AAU's Sullivan Award, as the year's top male athlete
  • He co-founded the Masters golf tournament
  • The USA's top amateur athlete in 1930, this golfer retired & helped design the Augusta National Golf Course
  • 1930:Golfing Grand Slam winner
  • In a 2004 film subtitled "Stroke of Genius", Jim Caviezel played this golf legend who retired from competition at 28
  • In July the U.S. Open golf tournament was won by this amateur in a playoff
  • Both the course & the tournament were created by this 1920s icon, the only single-season winner of golf's Grand Slam
  • Catalina had Southern Calif.'s first golf course; from 1931 to 1955 it hosted a tournament named for this Ga. great