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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.
Feb 27, 2021 · Bobby Jones helped design the course at Augusta National. Few men in the world know as much about Augusta National Golf Club co-founder Bobby Jones as author Sidney Matthew. As we continue our countdown to the Masters tournament, Stuart Hood meets the writer of The Life and Times of Bobby Jones to find out the truth behind the legend….
Apr 7, 2021 · There had never been debate throughout the history of Augusta National Golf Club that Alister MacKenzie was Bobby Jones’ first choice to design the world’s best inland golf course. Up until now.
- Sidney L. Matthew
Apr 7, 2023 · Clifford Roberts and Bobby Jones co-founded the club, purchasing the site of Fruitland Nurseries in Augusta, Ga., in 1931. A mutual friend of theirs, Thomas Barrett, Jr., recommended the spot....
Mar 30, 2023 · As co-creator of the Augusta National Golf Club and co-designer of its course, he was also the host of the first Masters, a job he took seriously.
Apr 7, 2022 · The course opened in 1933 and was immediately seen as one of the world’s greatest, quickly rising Augusta National Golf Club to prominence. The club did suffer from being a product of its time and place: a wealthy enclave in a deeply segregated American South.
Feb 14, 2015 · Jones is often credited with co-design of the course at Augusta but, as Jones said, being a good golfer didn’t make one a good golf course architect. Mackenzie handled the routing and bunkering, and Jones assisted with determining some of the landing areas and tee locations, hitting hundreds of balls on the site before course completion.
