| If one were to mention the greatest players in golf | | | | year (1926).Beyond the golf course, Jones was also an |
| history, no list would be complete without mentioning | | | | impressive figure and an exemplary athlete off it, |
| Bobby Jones, arguably the greatest golfer to compete | | | | known for being a class act and a paragon of |
| on a national and international level.On record, Jones is | | | | sportsmanship and fair play. For these reasons, the |
| still the only player ever to win golf's elusive Grand | | | | United States Golf Association named its |
| Slam, which is winning all four major championships in | | | | sportsmanship award as the Bob Jones Award.During |
| the same year. Jones represented the United States in | | | | the sports-crazy Roaring Twenties, Jones was among |
| the Walker Cup five times and won nine of ten | | | | the five giant sports icons that the public practically |
| matches. He also won two other tournaments against | | | | worshipped at the time. The others were baseball's |
| professionals: the 1927 Southern Open and the 1930 | | | | Babe Ruth, boxing's Jack Dempsey, football's Red |
| Southeastern Open.Like most other great players, | | | | Grange, and tennis player Bill Tilden.Although Jones |
| Jones started out as a child prodigy who, at the tender | | | | retired from golf at the relatively young age of 28, his |
| age of six, won his first children's tournament. At age | | | | success continued in his private life. He earned his |
| 14, he reached the third round of the U.S. Amateur | | | | Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from |
| Championship. He burst unto the national stage in 1923 | | | | Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of |
| when he won his first U.S. Open. From 1923 to 1930, | | | | Arts in English Literature from Harvard University |
| he won 13 major golf championships out of the 20 that | | | | where he was a member of the Owl Club. After only |
| he joined. He is second only to Jack Nicklaus (20 wins) | | | | one year in law school at Emory University, he passed |
| on the list of most major championships won. Jones is | | | | the bar exam and spent the rest of his life operating a |
| also the first player ever to win The Double, which is | | | | successful Atlanta law practice. |
| both the US Open and the British Open in the same | | | | |