Bobby Jones Honored By President, Golfers

Robert T. "Bobby" Jones '24 received tributes from golf leaders and President Eisenhower last weekend.

The occasion was the unveiling of a portrait of the golfing immortal in the Golf House Museum in New York on Saturday. Leading golfing figures crammed in to the building's library to hear a letter of praise from like.

"Those who have been fortunate enough to know him realize that his fame as a golfer is transcended by his inestimable qualities as a human being." the President wrote.

Eisenhower used Jones' cottage beside the Augusta National Golf Course in Augusta, Ga., for a brief vacation.

Now 52 and retired, Jones won 13 major United States and British championships from 1923 through 1930 including the unparalleled golfing grand slam in 1990, when he took the United States Open and Amateur and the British Open and Amateur in a single year.