Down The Fairway Jones, Robert Tyre & Keeler, O B Published by Milton, Balch & Company, New…

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Down The Fairway Jones, Robert Tyre & Keeler, O B Published by Milton, Balch & Company, New…

Down The Fairway Jones, Robert Tyre & Keeler, O B Published by Milton, Balch & Company, New York, New York, 1927. Illustrated. 239 pages. First Edition copy of what most consider the best golf book of the 20th century. A period advertisement for the book reads: "Bobby Jones - the most popular figure in the world of sports today - winner in the same season of both American and British open championships - reveals his golf history and the methods of play that have made him 'the greatest golfer of all time." Grantland Rice writes in the forward "The start of Bobby Jones' career to date is one of the most interesting episodes in all sport, one of the most unusual of all careers. The story of Bobby Jones is truth that is stranger and far more interesting than fiction, a saga of youth that could only be sung in the modern game." By the end of his short career in 1930 Jones had won the US Open four times

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