The Grand Slam, Mark Frost
The Grand Slam, Mark Frost
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The Grand Slam
Bobby Jones, America, and the Story of Golf

Author: Mark Frost

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 19 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2006


Synopsis

In 1930, young amateur golfer Bobby Jones mounted a campaign against the record books. In four months, this natural, selftaught player captured four major golf championships, an achievement so extraordinary that writers dubbed it the Grand Slam. No one has ever repeated it. Author Mark Frost provides an unprecedented intimate portrait of this golf great.

About Mark Frost

Mark Frost is an American novelist, screenwriter, director and film producer, best known as a writer for the television series Hill Street Blues and as the co-creator of the television series Twin Peaks.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin

This book was awesome. Golfer or not a golfer, if you are interested in reading about a first class person who dominated their sport like no other (Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus included), and did it with the utmost of sportsmanship, this is a MUST read. Who wins 13 majors in only 20 attempts, only......more

Goodreads review by Brad

THE GRAND SLAM: BOBBY JONES, AMERICA AND THE STORY OF GOLF is Mark Frost's biography of the champion amateur golfer Bobby Jones. Today, it is fashionable to argue whether Jack Nicklaus or Tiger Woods is the greatest golfer of all time. This book might persuade you that, when all is said and done, Jo......more

Goodreads review by PJ

This book is for anyone interested in golf, certainly, but also sports greats, and biographies of great men and women. I didn’t realize it going into this tale, but Bob Jones was more than just a great golfer (the greatest seemingly of all time), but he was also a very gracious man, and a true role......more

Goodreads review by Craig

This is a great book about the early years of Golf in America and the man who brought it to the forefront of America. Bobby Jones was a remarkable man. I didn't know much about him before reading this book. I knew he was the founder of Augusta National and The Masters Tournament, but that was about......more