Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-12-15 | Page 4 | Bobby Jones Prefers Spoon Shot to Any other Found on Golf Links

Bobby Jones Prefers Spoon Shot to Ai Air AY y Other Found on Golf Links ATLANTA ANTA Pec Jec 15 Maybe Maybe Bobb Bobby Jones lones is dropping a little hint t to Santa Claus and then maybe again he isn't but tho the fact tact remains Bobby has announced he prefers rs a spoon to any other club in his bag Id rather ather play a spoon spools shot than any other ho Iso says You can call cando cando do many things with it like fadin fading fad- fad in ing the tile ball into a crosswind from the right night or drifting the ball into a agreen agreen agreen green and making it stop as if from froma a a. mashie pitch I used to take tale a No 1 iron and bang awa away with all my might but Ive I've learned its Ifs easier safer and b better to use a spoon t The spoon I have now is a per per- gem It was sent me mo by George Duncan from iron England an and it is perfect per- per feet In lit balance and design That b be another reason why Im I'm so fond ot- ot the club Jones ma made e one of the greatest spoon shote of his career in a meal meni- round at the national open at Oakland Hills in 1924 in which he finished second to Cyril C Walk Walker r. r It was wag ya at nt the sixteenth green a two- two shot hole th the thc second out across a 3 little lake He lie pulled his dive to tho the left leaving him a long second The Tile wind was R somewhat in his face face- So Jones topic tool his spoon and started his shot forty yards ards to the tile left of the line with a trace of fade fado on tile the ball It 11 went fairly around the fn end of the lake It 11 drifted to the right on the wind It struck the greens edge and roll rolled 1 up to tv the pin A C toi