Curt Sampson has already written the best biography on Ben Hogan, and now he is attempting to equal that feat in regard to Bobby Jones, who remains the only golfer to win the Grand Slam of Golf in the same year and who retired from competitive golf almost immediately after doing so. Mr. Sampson’s new book on Mr. Jones is excerpted in this Golf World piece entitled Bobby in a New Light – Seventy-five years after his Grand Slam, Bobby Jones is more compelling than the myths surrounding him:

[L]ike Lincoln and Churchill and Marilyn Monroe, Jones led a life big enough to be considered from a variety of angles and with varying levels of awe and skepticism. Perhaps by considering his life in reverse, we can appreciate golf’s greatest hero in a new light. After all, he won the Slam at age 28, and then quit the game. He lived 41 more years.

Hat tip to Geoff Shackelford for the link to the Golf World piece.