This Day in History: Bobby Jones Wins Golf’s Grand Slam

This Saturday is September 27th.  If we were to turn Atlanta’s clock back 84 years to that date in 1930, we’d hear news that Atlanta golfer Bobby Jones had just completed winning the sport’s four major tournaments all in the same year–the so-called ‘Grand Slam’ of golf.  Jones was considered the best golfer of his era, and perhaps the best amateur golfer in history.  Georgia State University Associate Professor of History Clifford Kuhn revisits the event with WABE’s Steve Goss…  

A conversation with Dr. Clifford Kuhn

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