The Grand Slam Bobby Jones, America, and the Story of Golf

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Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2005-09-01
Publisher(s): Grand Central Publishing
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Summary

Now in paperback, the Los Angeles Times bestseller that takes a riveting look at the life and times of golf legend Bobby Jones 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 28-year-old amateur golfer, 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. Mark Frost uses a wealth of original research to provide an unprecedented intimate portrait of golf great Bobby Jones. In the tradition of The Greatest Game Ever Played, The Grand Slam blends social history with sports biography, captivating the imagination and engaging the reader. The Grand Slam is a biography not to be missed.

Author Biography

Mark Frost is the author of the critically acclaimed The Greatest Game Ever Played, The Grand Slam, and the bestselling The List of 7, The 6 Messiahs, and Before I Wake. He received a Writer's Guild Award and an Emmy nomination for his work as executive story editor on the acclaimed television series Hill Street Blues, and was the co-creator and executive producer of the ABC television series Twin Peaks. He lives in Los Angeles and upstate New York.

Table of Contents

THE PLAYERS IX
PROLOGUE XIII
PART ONE EVOLUTION OF A GENIUS
CHAPTER ONE: East Lake
3(28)
CHAPTER TWO: One Wrong Turn
31(18)
CHAPTER THREE: Into the Fray
49(32)
CHAPTER FOUR: Finding a Voice
81(44)
CHAPTER FIVE: Fate and Nothing Else
125(52)
PART TWO THE CHAMPIONSHIP YEARS
CHAPTER SIX: Breakthrough
177(28)
CHAPTER SEVEN: Halfway There
205(18)
CHAPTER EIGHT: The Battle of the Century
223(24)
CHAPTER NINE: The Americans Are Coming
247(20)
CHAPTER TEN: The Double
267(16)
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Consolidation
283(34)
CHAPTER TWELVE: Preparation
317(18)
PART THREE THE GRAND SLAM
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Amateur, St. Andrews
335(32)
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Open, Hoylake
367(18)
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The U.S. Open, Interlachen
385(30)
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The U.S. Amateur, Merion
415(28)
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: Retirement
443(18)
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: Decline
461(18)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 479(2)
A NOTE ON THE WRITING 481(2)
INDEX 483

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