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"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 who had already won nine of the seventeen major championships he'd entered during the previous seven years, 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. No one has ever repeated it." What the world didn't know was that throughout his entire playing career the intensely private Jones had longed to retreat from fame's glaring spotlight. The strain of competition exacted a ferocious toll on his physical and emotional well-being. So much so that soon after the Grand Slam, Jones made a shocking announcement: He was retiring from the game. His abrupt disappearance from the public eye into a closely guarded private life helped create the mythological image of this hero from the Golden Age of sports that endures to this day.