GOLF

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11376, 29 November 1930, Page 12

GOLF

“EDUCATIONAL GOLF.” Declaring that ho is retiring from competitive golf to make a scries of talking pictures “purely .of an educational character,” Bobby Jones will leave behind him a record that is astonishing or. would be if it were not fairly familiar. .Ho . played -in his first championship at tko ago of 14, and when 18 years of ago, the, first time the American amateur , event had been held after the war, was runnerup to Charles Evans, of Edgewater, who had held the title from 1916. At this ago and through succeeding years Jones was recognised as. a wonder golfer, but his progress. was retarded by a wild and ungoyernable , temper, 'which more than once caused him to break clubs, across his knee. His stroke play constantly , improved, and finally he: hit upon .a system whereby ho played the score and not the man —“kept on shooting par at-them.” This soon.. brought. results, for : when he lost the, American amateur, championship, ithas been-regarded as more of an event , than':, when, he ' lias won it. In 1924, 1925,. 1927 and 1928 lie won the amateur,, and; again this year ho took the title.'•ln. 1926, George von Elm. defeated him in the final.. In. the,, open his A performances .have been just as consistent, for. he has been consistently among . the leaders, and though..lie,-has.fwon it only four times in the last . eight years,.. it has taken the. united strength' of his -''opponents to prevent, him from doing it seven times. lii .1923,a1926, -1929 and 1930 lie ■ was the: cliajiipiqm. In 1925 Cyril Walker tied : '.with litui with a score,- of! 291, and: tied? again in the play-off with a’.scbro : of;7s.' ; :The Second play-off saw- Waikdri-'wih by .72 to 73/ - Ih l 1928 Johnny Farrell , tied with- Jones,, the ' score.being ,294, and the .re-play ;;saw; Eayrellwin-, by.-a stroke in the 36-holo • play-roff; :< the scores' being' 143 and: 144. ■ Tho‘British open also fell to Jones in 1926. with rounds of 72, v 72, 73 and 74/ and again ill ; 1927,': with: scores ?bf 68,. 72,- 73 and 72; whicli gave. liiitt. six. strokes over tlib field.' This .course/ was liis greatest; jfeary for ho aeeom:plished the unparalleledfeat, ofrwin'ning the four; hig? championships' of. America and -' Britain, including : the

British am'atsur, the one title which he had hitherto failed tu gain. Hri total in the British open was 291, and in tho American open 287. His 285 in the open is the lowest aggregato over made, and liis 66 in the southern section qualifying competition in 1926 is equal to the lowest score ever made in the qualifying round. Jones’ 285 included two 2’s, 16 3’s, 37 4’s and 17 s’s. Ho did not take a single 6. Par for the course was 292 for four rounds.