The Grand Slam by Mark Frost
In the wake of the 1929 stock market crash, an amateur golfer began a decade of unparalleled achievement, seeming a ray of light in an otherwise depressed America. Bobby Jones won the British Amateur Championship, the British Open, the US Open and the US Amateur Championship. A new phrase was born: The Grand Slam. A modest, sensitive man, a lawyer from a middle-class Atlanta family, Bobby Jones had barely survived a sickly childhood, and took up golf at the age of five for health reasons. Jones made his debut at the US Amateur Championship in 1916 and his genius was recognised by his inspiration, Francis Ouimet, but he had an ungovernable temper, and it wasn't until 1923 that Jones harnessed his talent, and eclipsed Ouimet. However, his health was never good, and the strain of completing the Slam exacted a ferocious toll; the US Open, played in July in blazing heat, nearly killed him. Jones fought to keep his fragile condition a secret from a country suffering from the Depression, but at the age of twenty-eight, after winning the US Amateur, he retired. His abrupt disappearance at the height of his renown inspired an impenetrable myth, to this day still fiercely protected by family and friends.
Praise for THE GREATEST GAME: 'An extraordinary book..(with) passages that were so convincing they made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up' - The Times 'Mark Frost has done a wonderful job of capturing the moment of golf's awakening in America' - BEN CRENSHAW, 1999 US Ryder Cup Captain 'Brilliantly told... marries social history with sporting biography...vivid, often moving, portraits of the two protagonists' - Sunday Telegraph
Mark Frost is the author of THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED. He has written and produced several television series, including Hill Street Blues and Twin Peaks.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780316726917 |
| ISBN 10 | 0316726915 |
| Title | The Grand Slam |
| Author | Mark Frost |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Year published | 2004-09-16 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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