SANTA FE, NM, November 29, 2008
/24-7PressRelease/ -- In the beginning of his golf career, Bobby Jones was in the final playoff of the United States Open. He swung and hit the ball and it ended up in the rough just off the fairway. As he set up his next shot his iron caused a slight move of the ball.
Jones got noticeably angry. He turned to the marshals and surprisingly called a foul on himself. The marshals talked among themselves and then asked people in the gallery if anyone had seen the foul.
No one, including them, did. So they left the final decision up to Jones.
Bobby Jones called the foul on himself anyway. He ended up losing the match by one stroke.
"Do you commend a bank robber for not robbing a bank? No you don't. This is how the game of golf should be played at all times," he said.
Jones was born to play golf although it took some polish early on. The angry, cussing, club-throwing tantrums of youth gave way to the smooth, skilled, calm golfer of his adulthood.
On Aug. 14, the original wood-shafted putter "Calamity Jane" that Bobby Jones gave to golfer Chuck Kocsis at the Augusta National Golf Club went on the block Kocsis played on the 1934 and 1935 NCAA Championship teams.
The putter included a letter of provenance from Kocsis explaining how he received it from Jones. It sold at PBA Galleries, in San Francisco for $9,000.
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