Down The Fairway

by Jones, Robert T., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9781587261121
• ISBN10: 158726112X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-30
• Publisher: Ann Arbor Media Group

Summary

Originally published in 1927, Bobby Jones's Down the Fairway has become what Sports Illustrated calls "an incontestable classic." Part memoir, part golf instructional, part golf history-and including wonderful vintage photographs-Down the Fairway is a must read for all who care about this most fascinating sport. Amazingly, Bobby Jones-along with sports journalist O. B. Keeler-wrote this book when he was only 24 years old. His thinking was that, having just become the first golfer ever to win both U.S. and British Open titles in one year (1926), he would never perform at such a high level again. It seemed a good time, then, to tell his story. In an age of big money, lucrative endorsements, TV contracts, and pouting millionaires, this earnest volume comes as a breath of fresh air. Infused with Jones's deep knowledge of and pure passion for the game, it evokes a long-ago time when an amateur could be the best in the world. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Beginnings	p. 19
I Discover Old Man Par	p. 37
Fourteen, and a State Championship	p. 49
Bouncing Back from a National Bout	p. 61
Professionals, and a Red Cross Tour	p. 73
Runner-Up at Oakmont	p. 86
The First British Venture	p. 99
St. Louis-and What Is Championship?	p. 112
Breaking Through	p. 124
After Seven Lean Years	p. 136
The Biggest Year	p. 148
Putting: A Game Within a Game	p. 165
The Pitch Shot: A Mystery	p. 176
Iron Play: I Like It	p. 188
The Heavy Artillery	p. 201
Miscellaneous Shots-and Trouble	p. 211
Tournament Golf	p. 222
Chronology	p. 235
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