Considerable Passions: Golf, the Masters and the Legacy of Bobby Jones

Foreword by Sidney Matthew Preface by Charlie Yates.

Considerable Passions is one of the most significant books ever published on the world's most influential golfer. Featuring an array of never-before seen photographs from the personal archives of the legendary Bobby Jones tracing back to the early days of American golfing, Considerable Passions takes us inside the personal and professional life of this beloved golfer and the game that he helped make great. The companion volume to the permanent exhibition at the prestigious Atlanta History Center, Considerable Passions is the definitive work on Bobby Jones and his legacy.

When Robert "Bobby" Tyre Jones Jr. won the four major golf tournaments (the British Amateur, the British Open, the U.S. Open, and the U.S. Amateur) all in the same year (1930), he became a worldwide hero and the first to achieve golfing's "Grand Slam."

Considerable Passions leads us "down the fairway" of Bobby Jones's life and golfing career, from his days as a competitive golfer, through his early retirement in 1930 at age 28, to his phenomenally popular instructional books and newspaper columns and his involvement in club and course design (such as the most revered American course, the Augusta National Golf Club). Jones's charisma, talent, and foresight shine through, and it's easy to see why he is considered the greatest of them all.

"The story of the man considered to be the most important golfer in the history of the sport, Bobby Jones. Photographs and personal artifacts follow his life through his incomparable number of tournament wins, family, successful business career and ongoing dedication to the game." - about the exhibition, "Down the Fairway with Bobby Jones." At the Atlanta History Center

About the Permanent Exhibit -- Hosted by the prestigious Atlanta History Center, "Down the Fairway with Bobby Jones" is the first and only permanent exhibit on Bobby Jones and the history of golf. Featuring rare archival photographs and personal artifacts, it traces Jones's life through his incomparable number of tournament wins, family, successful business career - spanning the early history of the game through the modern era.

Book size is 10" x 10", with 4-color photographs throughout book.

The companion piece to a permanent exhibit at the Atlanta History Center, this impressive album brings together never-released photographs of Bobby Jones gathered from private collections. The attractively designed book sprinkles the images across an overview of Jones' career, a brief history of Augusta National and the Masters, and some reflections on Jones' legacy. The tone is reverential, to be sure--Jones, after all, is Atlanta's favorite son--but it is never cloying or historically inaccurate. Jones' contribution to golf goes well beyond his remarkable accomplishments, and this book vividly captures, in both words and pictures, the way that he came to embody the spirit of golf. Biographies of Jones and numerous histories of the Masters offer more detail on the man and his game, but this tribute catches more of the passion that Jones elicited from those who knew him and watched him swing a golf club. Bill Ott
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