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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 show more 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. show less

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Bobby Jones retired from professional golf at, I believe 26, having won every major tournament on the planet.
Read this for insight into the golf swing: the short game especially.
A wonderful account of one of golf's seminal talents.
First edition, good to vg

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O.B. Keeler was an avid golfer and was a friend to many of golf's early stars. He died in 1950 O.B. Keeler was a dyed-in-the-wool newspaperman with a nose for a good story and a "tar bucket mind." That's because everything that went into his mind stuck. Keeler once reported on the verdict of a court case. The day after the ruling, the judge lost show more his order. No problem, he simply dispatched his clerk to purchase a copy of Keeler's account in the newspaper and entered Keeler's version as the Court's official order. Within a day or two, the original order was discovered under a stack of papers and compared to Keeler's version. They were identical even to the punctuation marks show less

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1927

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Sports and Leisure, Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History
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796.352Arts & recreationRecreation, sports, and performing artsAthletic and outdoor sports and gamesBall sportsBall and stick sportsGolf
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GV964 .J6Geography, Anthropology and RecreationRecreation. LeisureRecreation. LeisureSportsBall games: Baseball, football, golf, etc.
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