The Grand Slam

New York Times–Bestselling Author:"Plenty of fascinating backstory, both about [Bobby] Jones' young life as a golf phenom and about the sports-crazy 1920s." —Booklist
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller

In the wake of the stock market crash and the dawn of the Great Depression, a ray of light emerged from the world of sports in the summer of 1930. Bobby Jones, a twenty-eight-year-old amateur golfer, mounted a campaign against the record books. In four months, he conquered the British Amateur Championship, the British Open, the United States Open, and finally the United States Amateur Championship, an achievement so extraordinary that writers dubbed it the Grand Slam. To this day no other golfer has accomplished it in a single year.


Mark Frost, author of The Match and The Greatest Game Ever Played, uses a wealth of original research to provide an unprecedented intimate portrait of golf great Bobby Jones. Blending a vivid portrait of the era with sports biography, The Grand Slam is "an excellent book of golf history" (Booklist).


"[Frost] has a gift for dramatizing historic golf matches and making them seem suspenseful all over again . . . the book is full of vivid portraits of figures like Ted Ray, fighting his twitchy putting stroke; Harry Vardon, puffing his pipe even as he swung from his heels; and the beautifully tailored Walter Hagen." —The New York Times

"A swift, surefooted account of Jones's remarkable life and career . . . for the literate duffer, this is a hole in one." —Publishers Weekly