Bobby Jones
Chronology
| 1902 | Born March 17 in Atlanta, Georgia |
| 1907 | Begins playing golf |
| 1911 | Wins junior championship cup of Atlanta Athletic Club |
| 1915 | Wins East Lake Country Club and Druid Hills Country Club championships |
| 1916 | Wins Georgia State Amateur Championship; competes in U.S. Amateur at Merion Cricket Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as event's youngest competitor |
| 1917 | Wins Southern Amateur |
| 1919 | Is runner-up in both Canadian Open and U.S. Amateur |
| 1921 | Disqualifies himself during third round of British Open |
| 1922 | Receives degree in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 1923 | Wins U.S. Open Championship |
| 1924 | Receives degree in English literature from Harvard University; marries Mary Rice Malone on June 17—they will have three children |
| 1926 | Wins U.S. and British Open Championships, first player to do so in same year |
| 1927 | Publishes first book, Down the Fairway; receives degree from Emory University Law School |
| 1928 | Is admitted to the Georgia bar and begins working in his father's law practice in Atlanta. Jones will continue to practice law after retirement from golf and will head the firm until his death. |
| 1930 | Wins Grand Slam: U.S. Open, U.S. Amateur, British Open, and British Amateur Championships; retires from competitive golf on November 18 and surrenders amateur status |
| 1930-34 | Makes a series of motion picture films demonstrating his golfing techniques |
| 1931 | With broker Clifford Roberts and golf architect Alister Mackenzie, purchases Fruitland Nurseries property in Augusta, Georgia, and begins design and construction of Augusta National Golf Club |
| 1932 | Designs first matched set of golf clubs for A. G. Spalding and Company |
| 1933 | Augusta National Golf Club opens |
| 1934 | First Augusta National Invitation Tournament is held; Jones plays four rounds |
| 1938 | Name of Augusta tournament is changed to Masters Tournament |
| 1948 | Plays in last Masters Tournament and plays final round of golf in Atlanta; has back surgery and begins to suffer pain and atrophy on his right side |
| 1956 | Ailment is diagnosed as syringomyelia |
| 1958 | Receives Freedom of the City and Royal Burgh of St. Andrews, Scotland |
| 1968 | Attends final Masters Tournament |
| 1971 | Dies December 17 in Atlanta; is buried in Oakland Cemetery |
| 1972 | Inducted into Southern Golf Hall of Fame; 10th hole at St. Andrews Old Course named in his honor |
| 1974 | Inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame |
| 1989 | Inducted into Georgia Hall of Fame |
| 2002 | Atlanta History Center hosts tribute to Jones on March 17, the 100th anniversary of his birth.sidebar text |
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