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The grand slam [electronic resource] : Bobby Jones, America, and the story of golf / Mark Frost.

by Frost, Mark, 1953-

[Ashland, Or.] : Blackstone Audiobooks, 2004.

Jones, Bobby, 1902-1971.

Golfers -- United States -- Biography.

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In the wake of the stock-market crash and the dawn of the Great Depression, a ray of light emerged from the world of sports in the summer of 1930. Bobby Jones, a twenty-eight-year-old amateur golfer who had already won nine of the seventeen major championships he'd entered during the previous seven years, mounted a campaign against the record books. In four months, he conquered the British Amateur Championship, the British Open, the United States Open, and finally the United States Amateur Championship, an achievement so extraordinary that writers dubbed it the Grand Slam. No one has ever repeated it.

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