By Ron Rapoport
""Just should you imagine there's not anything new to be stated or written with reference to Bob Jones, Ron Rapoport comes alongside and proves that idea thoroughly unfaithful. The Immortal Bobby is splendidly suggested and beautifully written.""
--John Feinstein, writer of an outstanding stroll Spoiled and Caddy for Life
""The tale of Bobby Jones's singular lifestyles is likely one of the so much interesting in activities background. Ron Rapoport's considerate, swish variety is easily fitted to telling that story.""
--Bob Costas, broadcaster, NBC activities and HBO Sports
""Beyond the grainy newsreels and the confetti falling on Broadway and Peachtree highway, there has been a vital Bobby Jones, and Ron Rapoport unearths him wonderfully in a portrait as swish because the guy. there is extra right here than Grand Slam 1930--the jangling nerves and self-doubt, the towering modesty according to status, the complexity of an Atlanta patrician, a existence richly lived.""
--Gary M. Pomerantz, writer of the place Peachtree Meets candy Auburn
""The talents of writing and reporting that lovers of Ron Rapoport, like me, have come to anticipate from him over the years--candor, thoughtfulness, perception, viewpoint, humor--are once more validated and illuminated within the Immortal Bobby. it really is a huge e-book approximately a massive activities determine that, generally for Rapoport, is going past the confines of activities and matches firmly within the context of our culture.""
--Ira Berkow, activities columnist and writer of crimson: A Biography of crimson Smith
""Here is Bobby Jones as you will have by no means visible him, nearly nervous within the fires of festival, and Ron Rapoport indicates us how that guy turned a legend.""
--Dave Kindred, coauthor (with Tom Callahan) of world wide in 18 Holes
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Occasionally there were signs of what, many years into the future, the professional golf tour would become. In 1926, the Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce offered a purse of $10,000 for its first Los Angeles Open. The amount was so large that sportswriters came from around the nation, including Damon Runyon, who was intrigued enough to leave New York’s racetracks and ballparks to attend his first golf tournament. After Harry Cooper won the tournament in a quickly played final round, Runyon dubbed him Lighthorse Harry, a nickname he carried the rest of his life.
Gardner Required All He Had to Beat Bob in the Third Round,” was the headline atop Grantland Rice’s account of the match, but the Journal was just getting warmed up. At age fourteen, Little Bob was the subject of poetry. “The War Cry of the Joneses” was the title of the lead item in Morgan Blake’s column. ” Today the eyes of Southerners Are facing to the North And calling on their champion Little Bob—to sally forth. qxd 1/20/05 11:27 AM Page 23 The Jewel of the South 23 Though the “wonder child” was now the most famous boy in the United States, Journal readers were assured, he was also a fine student who was taking Latin at Tech High School even though it was not required and often set his clubs aside to study.
Open victory—but the pros learned not to count on it. S. Open at Worcester Country Club—Macfarlane made up four holes over the final nine and won on the 36th—he was asked if he had any thoughts of joining the professional tour. “I don’t know what I am going to do,” Macfarlane said. “This much I do know, however. qxd 1/20/05 48 11:40 AM Page 48 The Immortal Bobby 1931, he was happy to get a job giving lessons thirteen hours a day at a resort near Uniontown, Pennsylvania. It certainly paid more than most college graduates could make at that point in the Depression— those who could get a job at all.