Table of Contents
Introduction.
PART I: Little Bob and Mr. Jones.
1. East Lake Days.
2. The Jewel of the South.
3. The Keeper of the Flame.
4. “Emotions Which Could Not Be Endured”.
5. “By No Means Fit for the Honourable Company”.
6. The Long Lane Turns.
7. “My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, Are We Downhearted?”.
8. “It Was Perfect and That Is All There Is to Say about It”.
9. “Like a Hero Back from the War”.
10. “He Belongs to Us All”.
11. “You Can Never Know How I Envied You”.
12. “Don’t Kill the Star in the Prologue”.
PART II: The Grand Slam.
13. Impregnable Quadrilaterals, Then and Now.
14. “Your Boy Is Just Too Good”.
15. The British Amateur: “They Ought to Burn Him at the Stake”.
16. The British Open: Great Men of Hoylake.
17. The U.S. Open: “The Lord Must Have Had His Arms Around Me”.
18. Homecoming.
19. The U.S. Amateur: “Into the Land of My Dreams”.
20. Quitting the Memorable Scene.
PART III: The Best That Life Can Offer . . . and the Worst.
21. Hollywood, Augusta, and Beyond.
22. “White as the Ku Klux Klan”.
23. “I’ve Been Having Some Numbness in My Limbs”.
24. “Will Ye No’ Come Back Again?”
Sources and Acknowledgments.
Bibliography.
Index.