Early Years
"You could pick out dozens of boys at any recess period who looked more like champion prospects at golf or any other sport, though it is unlikely that any boy you could find in all the world could swing a golf club as the youthful Bobby was swinging it then." -O.B. Keller, sportswriter
Excerpt by permission from "The Life & Times of Bobby Jones." ©1995 Unauthorized use prohibited.
The earliest known photo of Bobby Jones, when he was just six years-old, at East Lake in Atlanta.
Bobby Jones at age 11 at East Lake, the year he first shot 80. When his father saw the scorecard he was so proud of his son he had tears in his eyes.
Bobby in 1914 at age 12, the year he beat an adult in local tournament play at East Lake.
'Little' Bobby Jones wins the Georgia State Amateur Championship at the age of 14.