An ideal gift for the avid golfer! An inspirational read, this award winning book tells the fascinating story of legend golfer Bobby Jones' heroic 1926 Open Championship. A relaxing read between rounds.
Bobby's Open: Mr Jones and the Golf Shot that Defined a Legend by Steven Reid has won The Times Sports Book of the Year in association with The British Sports Book Awards.
The inspirational story of a golfing legend and one of the game’s defining contests. The year is 1926 - Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club is hosting the world’s oldest and most prestigious golf tournament – The Open Championship. A stellar field of players has assembled from both sides of the Atlantic hoping to claim victory, including Walter Hagen, Harry Vardon and a rising young amateur from the USA, Bobby Jones.
Already a winner of the US Open and US Amateur Championship, Jones has yet to win a Major event on British soil. To do so now would set him on a path of unrivalled achievement and into the history books as the greatest amateur golfer the world has ever known. As the competition boils down to the penultimate hole on the final day, Bobby must hold his nerve to pull off a miracle recovery shot that will fire his reputation – and that of the golf course – around the world.
Bobby’s Open is the inspirational story of a golfing legend and one of the game’s defining contests. Steven Reid blends social history with sporting biography to portray the most famous sportsman of his time, examining why Jones was so adored and the cruel price he ultimately paid for his genius.
John Hopkins, former Golf Correspondent of The Times and head of the golf judges, said: "Bobby Jones in golf is a bit like Richard Wagner in music, an heroic figure about whom a great deal has been written down the years. This means that the Jones seam has been well mined. Steven Reid's trick is to have unearthed some new information which he has leavened with material that was known and presented it all in a thoughtful and thought-provoking way."
