The definitive account of Modern golf\'s foremost architect from the New York Times bestselling author of First Man: The Life of Neil A.
He lives in Auburn, Alabama..
Hansen has played and studied more than six hundred courses around the world.
Hansen has always been an avid golfer and plays to a six handicap.
About the Author: Besides being an acclaimed New York Times bestselling author, James R.
Hansen examines Jones\'s legacy in all its complexity and influence, including the fraternal rivalry of Jones\'s distinguished sons.
Golf Digest\'s annual rankings of the 100 Greatest Golf Courses have regularly featured about fifty Jones designs, paving the path for his two sons, Robert Jr., and Rees, whose work would carry on their father\'s tradition.
Jones believed that every hole should be "a Difficult par but an easy bogey." As gifted as he was at Golf design, Jones was equally skilled as a salesman, promoter, and entrepreneur.
Cornell provided the springboard for an act of self-invention that propelled Jones from obscurity to worldwide fame.
Jones excelled as a golfer, earning admission to Cornell University, whose faculty consented to a curriculum tailored to teach him the knowledge needed to design Golf courses.
Armstrong, recounts how an English immigrant boy arrived in upstate New York in 1912, just as Golf was emerging as a popular pastime in America.
Hansen, author of First Man: The Life of Neil A.
New York Times bestselling biographer James R.
Opens, America\'s national championship, have been contested on Jones-designed courses.
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Jones spread the gospel of Golf by designing courses in forty-two US states and twenty-eight countries.
Armstrong Robert Trent Jones was the most prolific and influential Golf course architect of the twentieth century and became the archetypical Modern Golf course designer.
The definitive account of Modern golf\'s foremost architect from the New York Times bestselling author of First Man: The Life of Neil A
