1967 Bobby Jones Autographed Letter

Perhaps Bobby Jones' greatest legacy to the game of golf was Augusta National Golf Club. Jones had met Dr. Alister Mackenzie in 1929 after playing Cypress Point and invited Mackenzie to help him in designing Augusta National. Still considered one of the finest golf courses in the world, Augusta opened in 1933 and is home to the Masters, one of the four major tournaments played today.

In this 1967 letter to Richard Gordin, Jones writes about the construction of Augusta National as well as Clifford Roberts' brilliance in organizing and conducting the tournament as well as several innovations they made at Augusta.

Jones was diagnosed with syringomyelia in 1944, a rare and degenerative disease of the central nervous system. Jones would battle the disease for 22 years, first using a cane, then leg braces and finally in a wheelchair. During the final years of his life Jones could not even hold a pen. But being the determined man that he was he found he could shove his pen through a tennis ball which he could still grip. This letter, written just 4 years before Jones' death in 1977, illustrates the determination of Jones as well as the pain he battled to sign this letter but that's what made Bobby Jones the man he was. As the famous sports writer Grantland Rice once said: "Bobby Jones is not one in a million persons. I should say he is one in ten million or perhaps one in 50 million."

This unframed letter is ready for framing with your favorite Bobby Jones photo.

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