August 1927 and Golf Monthly rightly celebrates the champion golfer of the age on its front cover, Bobby Jones – for it is he of whom we speak – captured in relaxed mode, helping himself to a gasper.
By then, ‘the wizard golfer’ had won two British and two US Open Championships as an amateur. A string of photographs and caricatures of the great man peppered the opening pages before an editorial mused on ‘The Significance of Mr Jones’, a title which sounds like it inspired a Bob Dylan song 40 years later.
“[Jones] has captured the hearts of the golfers of two hemispheres by his modesty and the sincerity of a nature as honest as the sunlight…What Mr Jones has done by his prowess on the links, and by his geniality, makes stronger the bonds which unite us with our cousins across the Atlantic.”
There’s more from what amounts to a celebration issue on Bobby Jones here.
