Down the Fairway

by Robert T. Jones Jr. and O.B. Keeler

"Down the Fairway is an intimate close-up. It trumpets the character, sportsmanship, and persistence of the youth who at twenty-five has won six national championships. But, strangely, there is nothing boastful about it. The simplicity of the telling lends charm."
--New York Evening Post 1927

At age twenty-four, Bobby Jones thought he had accomplished all he ever could in the world of golf. An amateur with a skill that would rival any professional player, Jones had won the U.S. Open and the British Open in the same year, which at the time was unimaginable for any golfer. Jones sat down to write his story in Down the Fairway, not realizing what the rest of his career would hold for him.

Originally released in 1927, Down the Fairway is Jones' tribute to golf in a book that is part memoir, part golf instructional, part golf history. Starting with the basics of his evolution into the game of golf (and life) Jones talks about a passion for a game that infected him from the age of five until his death in 1971. Jones focuses more on his losses than his actual wins claiming that is where he learned the most. He manages to look back on his losses without bitterness and see them for what they were for him: lessons in life.

Down the Fairway is an inspiring read in which Jones comes across the pages as every bit the gentleman, deep thinker, and golf genius he was known to be in life.

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