| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Sir Walter and Mr. Jones: Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones, and the Rise of American Golf. By Stephen R. Lowe. (Chelsea: Sleeping Bear, 2000. xxviii, 387 pp. $35.00, ISBN 1-58536-009-0.)

Walter Hagen and Bobby Jones shaped the look and feel of American golf during the 1920s. Their legacies are long and deep. As Stephen R. Lowe argues in this well-crafted double biography, they were opposites in background, in temperament, in style, and especially in public image. Two stories illustrate their personae. In the 1925 U.S. Open, Jones, the consummate gentleman amateur, called a penalty stroke against himself for accidentally moving his ball in the rough. No one had seen the infraction. When praised for his integrity--he lost the championship by one stroke--Jones replied, 'You'd as well praise me for not breaking into banks. There is only one way to play this game.' Hagen, on the other hand, was known as a brash, uninhibited, iconoclastic professional. Typically late for his tee times, Hagen was once asked by a tournament official, 'where have you been, practicing a few shots?' 'No,' Hagen replied, 'having a few.' . . .

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