EMORY UNIVERSITY

The story of Bobby Jones is a landmark in sports history. Born in Atlanta in 1902, Jones became recognized as a prodigy at golf. At age fourteen, he played to the third round of the National Amateur... Bobby Jones' capacity for building friendships between people, and across an ocean, has lived on in the student exchanges set up in his name by friends and family. The Robert T. Jones, Jr. Scholarship and Fellowship programs connect two universities in Atlanta - Emory University and Georgia Tech where Jones obtained degrees in law and mechanical engineering - with the University of St Andrews in Scotland, home of the Old Course and the people who adopted him as their own... At the age of forty-six, an exploratory operation revealed that Jones was suffering from a rare disease that resulted in progressive paralysis. Alistair Cooke recalls an incident of Bobby's later years when an old friend asked him about his physical distress; "Well now, let's not talk about it. We play the ball, you..

Also known as: Bobby Jones

Primary location: Atlanta United States