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- Bobby Jones was golfΓÇÖs
- best amateur player, but
- he beat professionals, too.
- Between 1923 and 1930,
- Bobby won the U.S.
- Amateur championship five times, the U.S.
- Open four times, and the British Open three
- times. After becoming the only player ever to
- win golf's Grand Slam, in 1930, Bobby retired
- at age 28. He never played professionally.
-
- Bobby grew up near the East Lake golf
- course, in Atlanta, Georgia. He constantly
- practiced the game. He won a junior
- championship at age 9 and broke par (the
- score a good adult player would shoot for
- the course) at age 11.
-
- Besides being a sportsman, Bobby