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Newspaper Cartoons (Colvin)
Bobby Jones, Golfer (Original) (Signed)

Bobby Jones, Golfer (Original) (Signed) by Newspaper Cartoons (Colvin) at The Illustration Art Gallery

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Artist: Neville Colvin (biography)
Medium: Pen & Ink on Board
Size: 16" x 9" (400mm x 230mm)
Date: 1970
Signature: Signed by artist lower left

This is the Signed unique original Pen & Ink drawing by Neville Colvin.

An original pen and ink drawing published in a British magazine for a series of articles "Sensations of Sport" including The Bobby Jones Story.

Robert Tyre Jones Jr. (March 17, 1902 – December 18, 1971) was an American amateur golfer who was one of the most influential figures in the history of the sport; he was also a lawyer by profession.

Jones founded and helped design the Augusta National Golf Club, and co-founded the Masters Tournament. The innovations that he introduced at the Masters have been copied by virtually every professional golf tournament in the world.

Jones was the most successful amateur golfer ever to compete at a national and international level. During his peak from 1923 to 1930, he dominated top-level amateur competition, and competed very successfully against the world's best professional golfers.


Explaining his decision to retire, Jones said, "It [championship golf] is something like a cage. First you are expected to get into it and then you are expected to stay there. But of course, nobody can stay there." Jones is most famous for his unique "Grand Slam," consisting of his victory in all four major golf tournaments of his era (the open and amateur championships in both the U.S. & the U.K.) in a single calendar year (1930). In all Jones played in 31 majors, winning 13 and placing among the top ten finishers 27 times.

After retiring from competitive golf in 1930, Jones founded and helped design the Augusta National Golf Club soon afterwards in 1933. He also co-founded the Masters Tournament, which has been annually staged by the club since 1934 (except for 1943–45, when it was cancelled due to World War II). The Masters evolved into one of golf's four major championships. Jones came out of retirement in 1934 to play in the Masters on an exhibition basis through 1948.

Jones played his last round of golf at East Lake Golf Club, his home course in Atlanta, on August 18, 1948. A picture commemorating the event now sits in the clubhouse at East Lake. Citing health reasons, he quit golf permanently thereafter.


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Newspaper Cartoons (Colvin)

Newspaper Cartoons (Colvin)