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ADVISOR RECOMMENDED READING One
of the Advisor's favorite Golf Publishers - Sleeping Bear Press - In honor of
the Centenary birth of golf's greatest amateur, has released the authentic reprint
of the 1931 classic best-seller The Boys' Life of Bobby Jones, by O.B. Keeler
and includes the original dust jacket ($35.00) The book chronicles the young life
of Robert Tyre Jones, Jr through his 28th year when he won the 'Grand Slam' in
1930. You can save on-line on all their Bobby Jones titles by visiting www.sleepingbearpress.com.
Their
other excellent titles to add to your golf library about the legendary Bobby Jones
include: Bobby Jones Golf Tips:
Secrets of the Master, Sidney Matthew ($19.95). The latest in their Bobby Jones
series combines humorous anecdotes with Bobby's best golf tips, including an amazing
unpublished swing sequence. Taken from Jones' own writings of the twenties and
thirties. Secrets of the Master:
The Best of Bobby Jones, Sidney Matthew ($22.00). The book unlocks the secrets
of the golf swing and offers other timeless golf tips. Bobby
Jones on Golf, Bobby Jones ($29.95). The book contains everything of importance
that Bobby Jones wrote on the game of golf. Detailed descriptions and action photographs
of the author and others. Life
and Times of Bobby Jones,
Portrait of a Gentleman, Sidney Matthews ($49.95). Is a thorough and complete
compilation of intimate and rarely seen photographs, portraits, personal correspondence,
trophies and medals, and biographical information that makes this the definitive
work on the golfing master. Sir
Walter & Mr. Jones: Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones and the Rise of American Golf, Stephen
Low ($35.00). The winner of the prestigious USGA International Book Award for
2000, the book chronicles how two men of vary different backgrounds rose to prominence
in one sport and changed its dynamic on the American landscape. And
another favorite title in the Advisor's personal library - The Greatest of Them
All, The Legend of Bobby Jones, Martin Davis, The American Golfer 203-862-9720.
This wonderful coffee table book is a beautifully told, loving tribute to Bobby
Jones, with marvelous vintage pictures, essays on Jones by some of the game's
greatest writers and newspaper accounts of his historic deeds. |