Down the Fairway by Robert T. Jones and O.B. Keeler

Hardcover. Condition: Like-New (Factor Sealed). 1985. Classics of Golf.

nes wrote Down the Fairway after his pair of victories in the 1926 British and U.S. Open Championships. It was an accomplishment previously unachieved and he felt he was at the peak of his game and his career. Now the world knows even more records would fall, but having bested the finest professional players included twice on the world stages it was hard to foresee higher pinnacles. He was playing as an amateur but he knew he was masquerading. As a student at Emory University Law School with Bachelor of Science degrees from Georgia Tech and Harvard, he was looking forward to the legal profession and eventually a family. He felt graciously indulged by his father, who had been denied a professional baseball career with Brooklyn in the National League by his father, Bobby’s grandfather and namesake, Robert Tyre Jones. Banner headlines aside, Bobby Jones knew he was a part-time amateur, and felt he probably had taken his golf game as far as it could, and possibly should, go. Tally to 1926: 120 trophies and 30 medals.