Bobby Jones U.S. Open photograph   Save
Walter Nice-Columbus Dispatch
Description: Crowd watching as golfer Bobby Jones (1902-1971) putts on a green at the Scioto Country Club during the U.S. Open, July 1926. Photographed by Walter Nice, staff photographer for the Ohio State Journal and the Columbus Dispatch. A lawyer by trade, Jones was the most successful amateur golfer to ever compete at the national and international level. In 1926, he became the first golfer to win "the Double," by winning the U.S. Open and the Open Championship in the same year. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05106
Subjects: Franklin County (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Ohio Sports; Golf; Golfers
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)