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 enlarge | Author: Mark Frost
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 45981
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 512
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 1401307515
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.352092
EAN: 9781401307516
ASIN: 1401307515
Publication Date: September 1, 2005
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 A cherished read September 9, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
By reading this book I began to admire Bobby Jones, not so much for his golf but for his character and his strength in making it to the end. It would have been a lot easier for him in a folklore sense if he had died young instead of being tortured with a crippling, painful disease that challenged him physically and was a test to him mentally and emotionally. I admire that he never hid himself away like so many famous people do that want to be remembered as they "were". I believe that this is the most admirable thing about him. That and his willingness to serve in WWII, landing on the same beach the day after D-Day. Not just a "for show" tour of duty. His devotion to his family, his country and his friends and his hometown are quite amazing. He is a role model in many ways that I don't even think of golf as one of them but for his tenaciousness, his intellect, his well roundedness and his extreme graciousness. He could have derailed many times but he never did in life. It's a loss that there isn't more to read about his life to know how he managed to adjust to everyday life and his illness, how he kept putting one foot in front of the other. The criticism seems unjust re: Chick Evans, Jones was very kind in all his correspondence to him which I have read in other books. Also, so much is made of his temper which he defends and explains in "Down the Fairway" by Jones, as not worse than any other player of the time and shortlived as a childish display that was never witnessed again at least publically for the rest of his life. Bobby Jones accomplished an amazing number of feats that most of us would feel proud to do even one of such as the many languages he spoke, the degrees, his many intellectual skills, a good family man and most of all his grace in a life.
 Interesting insights on Jones August 25, 2006
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Most sports fans have heard that Jones won the Grand Slam, but few (including myself) realize the temper that Jones had or how the quest to win ate him up. Also the story of his later life was unknown to me as well.
Not just a golf story an excellent Historical Narrative August 21, 2006
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Historical Narrative in the spirit of Seabiscuit or Jeff or Michael Shaara's works. Excellent story interwoven with the characters, times, and actions that surrounded Bobby Jones.
 Well Researched and Written, Not for Non-Jones Fanatics January 19, 2006
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Frost does an excellent job of interlacing the time period with Jones' career. However, the play-by-play of every Major tournament Jones played in is quite long-winded, too detailed for my patience (and I'm a huge Bobby fan). For non-golfers, it could be tedious and boring, I would presume.
I also found Frost to be overtly negative toward certain golfers of the era, to a fault. No one is perfect and, if you truly study Jones, compassion and tolerance were some of his greatest traits. Frost's negativity at times belies the spirit of Bobby.
Otherwise, it is the most detailed account of Bobby's golf career I have ever read, a must for Jones fanatics.
If you read one book on Jones, read "A Golf Story" by Charles Price.
Somewhere between an Eagle and a Birdie October 3, 2005
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
A really fine piece of work..gives one a great appreciation for some of the characters of golf's early years in America, and "characters" is the right term...uses Bobby Jones as contrast and an ideal...very nicely done...Puts Jones and the development of golf in context of what was going on in America and the world. Lots of readable national and international history in addition to straight golf and straight biography....good book. Great read...You can feel Jones' passion and agony when competing....insights into a different time, a different world but with values that are still respected and needed today. Informative and inspiring without being preachy. Lots of good, tough competition, written a way that makes it as real as if you were standing at the green.
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