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Exhibit highlights include: Jones family has placed in the USGA to ensure that his
● Jones family photographs donated to the USGA legacy will continue to reach future generations,” said
Museum and Library by his daughter, Clara Black Hilary Cronheim, director of the USGA Golf Museum
● Ephemera from Jones’ academic and professional and Library. “Jones’ story is especially relevant to the
pursuits outside of golf, including his commencement groups that call the Murray Golf House and Bobby Jones
program from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a Golf Course home. We hope his character, career and
page from his Harvard University 1924 class album, contributions to the game will inspire juniors, adaptive
his Georgia State Bar certificate, and a bookplate golfers, administrators, teaching professionals and all
from Jones’ personal library those facing seemingly insurmountable challenges that
● Ticket and final-round scorecard from the 1930 anything is possible.”
U.S. Amateur at Merion Cricket Club, where Jones
completed the Grand Slam The Bob Jones Room was completed as part of a 10-year
● Spaulding Crescent mashie used by Jones, ca. 1930 renovation of the adjacent Bobby Jones Golf Course. The
● Correspondence between Jones and fans from the Murray Golf House serves as the clubhouse for the golf
1960s and 1970s course, as well as the headquarters of the Georgia State
● Materials and correspondence from the Texas Golf Association (GSGA) and the Georgia Section of the
State Library Division for the Blind and Physically PGA of America. It is also home to the Georgia Golf Hall
Handicapped of Fame.

Photos of the exhibit can be found here. The Bobby Jones Golf Course Foundation, led by a
“We are thrilled that artifacts and library materials from dedicated group of volunteers, transformed the course
our collection will allow visitors to more deeply connect into a facility designed to make a difference through golf.
with Mr. Jones, and we’re honored by the trust that the Their vision of serving the game’s diverse communities,

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