Though it has been nearly eighty years since Robert T. (Bobby) Jones Jr. captured the Grand Slam (an accomplishment that stands alone still), this golf legend continues to be memorialized today.
Bobby Jones is admired for far more than his golf record. The Atlanta native left enduring legacies of character, sportsmanship, intelligence, and charm that span continents. Jones was a world-class golfer, but he was also a scholar, earning degrees from Georgia Tech, Harvard, and Emory.
Friends remember Jones as a family man, a fierce competitor, a professional, a writer, a teacher, a golf course designer, and in everything, a loyal, honorable human being loved by those whose lives he touched.
It is this legacy that the Robert T. Jones Jr. Memorial Scholarship and Fellowship seek to honor. These most unique and prestigious prizes appropriately entail an exchange between two locales and institutions to which Jones is inexorably linked, the University of St Andrews in Scotland and Emory University in Atlanta.