Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-10-20 | Page 19 | Bob Jones' Links Game Still Good

Bob Jones' Jones Links 1 Game Still Good Former Golf King May Try Competition at 45 but Not Sooner By PAUL G GALLICO LLICO ATLANTA Ga O Oct Oat t. t 20 You would have given a a lot to have at the golf gol l lesson on in hi the thet East t Lake l locker ck r room at Atlanta today to da day after we came in from our round Besides young oung Charley Yates s- s stu su student u. u dent at Georgia Tech and Atlanta's coming golf gol champion there was Bob Jones Sr Robert Tyre Jones Jr and this reporter We had come in from Irom 18 holes which Bob shot in 72 12 with more really real cal al ly bad golf gol shots than r I 1 have ever seen him hit hooks slices slices- pushes bad putts It had been a gay and light hearted round Bob Jones and andI I against Bob Jones Sr and Charley Chancy Yates which we won 3 and 2 Fun In Locker R Room om But the fun really began in the locker room Bob said Charley Chancy Yates who had been playing wildly and dumping his long screaming shots all aU over over the golf gol course what am I doing Well said Jones for one thing thine let me show you something When yo you take your back swing you rou turn your your- whole left shoulder aio around nd and awa way away from the line Just like a a batter going to take a cut at nt a baseball Sometimes you swing way around and nd of off the line so I cant can't even even see see yo your head before you take your down n swing Your wrists arent aren't relaxed enough and you u start em back in such a way that they begin to turn Immediately That turns turn your arm the shoulder follows the arm and before be- be fore forey you y u know it you are tied up in ina a knot and lord knows where the ball is going when you hit it it il Jones returns to com competition next spring when he will vIll play in one tournament at Augusta Ga an open championship at a 3 course that he helped build a a. gigantic golf gol circus that hat will include all the famous golf golf- golfers ers rs of the world Beyond that tha this man who once once was the champion of champions has ha no d desire ire for tio Lion ion He is leading the life of a a. ver very happy appy man now I asked him hint whether I might say that hat he would never return to active com competition in iii o open n championships He shook his headlie's head Hes He's Having Fun Fan Now No Noman man can say say- truthfully that he never again will do something or that he lie ever wil Ida Ido something that he now has han no inclination for he re- re plied pIled Perhaps when I am 45 or 50 0 years old when I am forgotten when no one ever exp expects to see me men meon meon on n a golf gol course again it will wUl be f fun tin U 11 f I am playing well to come back to the tournaments and see sec what I can cando cando cando do at that age Right now I am having hav- hav in ing ns more fun than I ever had in my my life ife before be ore There is not any anyone one thing hing or group of things that could call all me back to the wars right now Twenty years from rom now who can canell cantell cantell tell ell