In the 1929 U.S. Open at Winged Foot G.C., Bobby Jones made a clutch putt on the 72nd hole to tie Al Espinosa and then obliterated Espinosa the following day in a 36-hole playoff. Many said it was the springboard to Jones’ Grand Slam the following year. And now a little bit of that history is for sale.
Starting today, Pure Golf Auctions is accepting bids on a lot that features Jones’ official, signed scorecards from that playoff. According to Tom Stewart of Pure Golf Auctions, the item is expected to fetch between $25,000 and $45,000.
Other items include a signed Babe Ruth scorecard from Bermuda’s Mid Ocean Club (Ruth famously once tried to drive the green on the water-laden, par-4 fifth hole and emptied his bag of golf balls in the attempt) as well as a signed invitation from Bobby Jones to former USGA president Ike Grainger to join Augusta National Golf Club.
Pinehurst-based Pure Golf Auctions was founded by Tom Stewart and although it specializes in golf-related memorabilia, its lot..

Photos by Alan P. PittmanThat gurgling sound is often from people attempting to negotiate the 494-yard, par-4 finishing hole, the conclusion to the three-hole stretch known as the green mile.On the afternoon of Sunday, May 8, 2016, even before James Hahn had defeated Roberto Castro on the first hole of sudden death to win the Wells Fargo Championship at Charlotte's Quail Hollow Club, crews were busy on the front nine, preparing the course for the 2017 PGA Championship. Not by trimming tree limbs or spreading fertilizer, but by removing all the sand from bunkers and preparing the greens to be gassed, stripping all the grass from them. The next day, bulldozers moved in to rip apart three holes on the front nine and one on the back. Chainsaws were soon fired up, and clusters of tall pines came tumbling down.
Were they mad? The PGA, to be played Aug. 10-13, was only 15 months away. The year preceding a major championship is supposed to be spent tightening fairways, growing rough and f..

FacebookPinterestSam GreenwoodJordan Spieth speaks to media in advance of the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational at Firestone Country Club. (Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images)

AKRON, Ohio – “I’m not really finding any negatives in this.”
Welcome to Jordan Spieth’s world. The newly-minted Champion Golfer of the Year is refreshed and back in the saddle for this week’s WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, where he will go for his third win in as many starts, but looming ahead is the year’s final major, the PGA Championship and a shot at a piece of history so few have realized.
It is golf’s worst-kept secret that Spieth, who just turned 24, has a chance to complete the career grand slam at Quail Hollow Club after his hypnotic Houdini act 10 days ago at Royal Birkdale yielded the third leg of said slam in the British Open at Royal Birkdale.
Given his recent run and the manner in which he pulled out of a seemingly irrecoverable tailspin at Birkdale to add the Claret Jug to his 2015 victories in the Ma..