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USA Today
3 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Sixers legend Bobby Jones ranked No. 18 power forward of all time
Philadelphia 76ers legend Bobby Jones was a key member of the franchise's 1983 title team as one of the best 6th Men in the league. He won the 6th Man of the Year award that season and then averaged 8.6 points, 4.8 rebounds, 1.3 steals, 2.8 assists, and 1.5 blocks in the 1983 playoffs. Overall, Jones spent eight seasons with the Sixers and averaged 10.7 points, 4.8 rebounds, 2.2 assists, 1.2 steals, and 1.1 blocks for Philadelphia. His work with the Sixers allowed him to have his No. 24 jersey retired to be honored as one of the franchise's great players. HoopsHype ranked the top 20 power forwards in NBA history and Jones came in ranked No. 18 on the list: One of the first multi-positional wing/big defenders who has become so popular in today's game, Bobby Jones could legitimately defend any position on the floor at a high level, from guards to fellow bigs. Not much of a scorer, but did well as a slasher and as a garbageman around the basket. Jones' impact on the Sixers was obvious as he continued to work on both ends of the floor. If it wasn't for him making all of the little plays, the Sixers probably don't have the same success in terms of winning.
Yahoo
24-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Who's on Jack Nicklaus' golf Mount Rushmore? Sorry, Arnold Palmer
Whose faces would be carved into gold's Mount Rushmore if Jack Nicklaus made the final call? Well, obviously, his own likeness would be among the four. The other three, according to a recently resurfaced video on Twitter, would belong to Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan and Tiger Woods. Sorry, Arnie. More: How did Memorial Tournament, Muirfield Village get their names? Jack Nicklaus explains Arnold Palmer, Nicklaus' longtime friend and rival, didn't make the legendary golfer's personal cut. The video was originally shot for Golf Digest in August 2024 and was recently repurposed by a popular Twitter account called Official Tour Pro. Nicklaus, 85, became close friends with Palmer, his rival, while they and Gary Player dominated the sport in the 1960s to help golf gain popularity in the U.S. Palmer, who died in 2016 at age 87, won 62 PGA Tour titles and still ranks fifth in all-time victories behind Sam Snead, Woods, Nicklaus and Hogan. Jones, who co-founded the Masters Tournament and Augusta National Golf Club where it's played, played only as an amateur while making his living as an attorney. He's considered the greatest amateur player who's ever lived. Nicklaus, meanwhile, won 117 professional tournaments, including 73 PGA wins plus a record 18 major championships. That's three more majors than Woods, who's still playing. Nicklaus also fronts one of the world's leading golf course design and construction firms, Nicklaus Design, and has designed numerous courses – including Muirfield Village in Dublin that hosts the annual Memorial Tournament. Nicklaus has also inspired a line of ice cream flavors plus Golden Bear Lemonade, but neither has a spot on the Mount Rushmore of golf-inspired food/beverage items next to the tasty half lemonade/half iced tea mixture known as an Arnold Palmer. Blue Jackets reporter Brian Hedger can be reached at bhedger@ and @ This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Tiger Woods makes Jack Nicklaus' golf Mount Rushmore. Who made the cut?
Times
23-07-2025
- Times
‘My favourite round of golf of all time'
'I could take out of my life everything except my experiences at St Andrews and I would still have a rich, full life,' Bobby Jones, the legendary American golfer once said. Standing in the window of Rusacks Hotel with the 18th green and first tee of the Old Course to my right and, below, waves crashing in on West Sands beach under the spring sunshine, it's not hard to see where Jones was coming from. I'm at the home of golf, the place where it all began, on the first day of my Marine & Lawn Grand Tour — a customisable experience that allows golfers to combine fine hotels and food with the most iconic courses across Scotland and Northern Ireland. On this there's no need to consider logistics — everything is arranged, from tee times to dinner reservations and transfers to caddies. The only thing I need to worry about is getting the ball around 18 challenging holes of links golf without being distracted by the natural beauty. The company offers six hotels and resorts to choose from, including Dornoch Station, Marine North Berwick and Slieve Donard. My playing partner and I visit three: Rusacks St Andrews and Marine Troon in Scotland and the newly opened Portrush Adelphi in Northern Ireland, a short stroll away from Royal Portrush Golf Club, the venue for July's Open Championship. Having never visited the Old Course on which the sport was born more than 600 years ago, St Andrews seemed like the perfect place to start our four-night adventure. Just an hour's drive from Edinburgh airport, the little coastal town is a delightful mix of traditional windswept stone buildings and natural beauty. It's also a temple to golf, with endless parades of golf shops, statues, pubs and plaques commemorating Tom Morris, the godfather of modern golf. At the heart of the town, a few feet from the final green of the Old Course, is our first stop-off: the outstanding Rusacks. First opened in 1887, the original towering townhouse mansion has been sympathetically extended to create a luxurious yet relaxed country-style boutique hotel. Interiors are rich with wood panelling and bookshelves, framed pictures of golfing adventures, chandeliers, intricate wooden floors and heavy-piled patterned rugs. Our room, at the front of the hotel, has views over the beach on which the opening scenes of Chariots of Fire were filmed, and is a wonderful place to rest and relax after a round of golf, with a big bathtub and walk-in shower. The staff, who genuinely seem to love the town, the hotel and its history, recommend lunch at One Under Bar, which feels like a cross between a traditional brick-walled pub and smart clubhouse — and serves a delicious Scottish charcuterie board. We're keen to get playing, though, so having picked up our Titleist rental clubs (we wanted to travel light — but you can take your own) and got instructions on where to pick up our caddies, we were off in our hire car. The Grand Tour organisers have matched our golfing abilities (an 18-20ish handicap) with courses that are both challenging and enjoyable. First stop, Dumbarnie Links, about 20 minutes away — a beautifully designed modern golf course that occupies 375 pretty acres overlooking the Firth of Forth. After a wee dram on the first tee with our caddies, we enjoy a testing but exhilarating 18 holes under the spring sun: a glorious introduction to links golf (please don't ask my score). Then it's time for a delicious seafood dinner at Rusacks, with sunset views over the Old Course. The next day it's time to play the famous St Andrews links. The New Course, designed by Tom Morris in 1895, is the oldest 'new' course in the world, and runs parallel to the hallowed turf where golf began. With the wind behind me I manage a birdie on the par-five 3rd. I'm Tiger Woods, I think, or Rory McIlroy. Alas no. I finish with 91, but will never forget that birdie. Things get even better at our next stop, Room 116 at Rusacks, an intimate lounge and bar that celebrates two of Scotland's greatest gifts to the world — golf and whisky. After a tasting experience of the Glendronach Highland Single Malt amid pictures of golfing legends, and seafood and steak at 18 Rooftop Restaurant, set high up above the golf links, we drive two and a half hours to Marine Troon. The light and airy hotel on the Ayrshire coast, with views over the Isle of Arran, is just feet away from the 18th fairway of the Royal Troon Golf Club, nine-time host of the Open. The building, originally a manor house from 1894, has plenty of period charm, with rich woods and chandeliers, floral wallpapers and deep carpets — and views from every window of the coast and the course. After a delicious lunch at the Seal Bar (named after the first hole at Troon), it's time to try Dunbonald Links, which has hosted the Scottish Women's Open and the final qualifying for the Open Championship. Here we are kept on our toes by water, cauldron bunkers and some spectacularly undulating greens, then soothed by Marine Troon's comfortable and relaxed restaurant, the Rabbit, where we feast on delicious fresh trout and pork belly. Sadly there's little time to visit the hotel's large pool and spa, because the next morning we have a half-hour flight to take from Glasgow to Belfast and an hour's road trip to the charming seaside town of Portrush. As we drive past Royal Portrush Golf Course, the stands have already been put up for this summer's Open Championships and the area is buzzing with activity. Our hotel, the Adelphi, converted from a grand townhouse, is a block away from the beach and, like the others, has dark polished woods and leather furniture to sink into and a plethora of golfing and nautical touches to remind you where you are. Although the room is spacious and comfortable, the sunshine and nearby seashore lure us out — as does more golf. Our final 18 holes are 15 minutes' away, along the coast road, at Portstewart Golf Club, host of the Irish Open and rated one of the top 100 golf courses by Golf Digest. We've been told the views are impressive, but nothing can prepare us for the majesty of the opening nine holes. Framed by the crashing waves of the Atlantic Ocean, the moody sky, rolling dunes and tricky manicured greens, this is a course that assaults the senses (in a very good way). It is also extremely challenging. Without our incredibly patient caddies, we might still be on the course. But after Guinness on tap at the halfway house, and a back nine offering us a few more chances for par, we make the final hole before dark. Afterwards, on the clubhouse balcony overlooking the beach, we agree: this is our favourite round of golf — not just on the tour, but of all time. Hosted by the Adelphi's friendly, chatty staff, we celebrate with more excellent seafood (ranging from cured sea bass and crab linguine to risotto di mare) and a cocktail in the bar. I did get around Portstewart in double digits — and that has to be worth celebrating. As we drive back to Belfast the following morning, I reflect on the lessons I've learnt. I probably need to have some golf lessons in a bunker. Apparently it's not always 25C and sunny on these links courses. But, most of all, the Grand Tour is most worthy of its name. A four-night golf trip with Marine & Lawn costs from £5,000 per person, including accommodation, golf and transfers (but not flights and food),
Irish Times
12-07-2025
- Sport
- Irish Times
Calamity Corner: Open players will want to steer clear of 16th's ‘card wrecker' chasm
'Of all the hazards, fear is the worst' – Bobby Jones. For most of us mere mortals, the sight from the tee to the green on the 16th hole of the Dunluce links at Royal Portrush is both mesmerising and fear invoking. Calamity Corner, as it is known, is unquestionably one of golf's great par 3s, with a deep chasm to the right and a tiny bailout landing area short left of the green. Off the championship tee which, obviously, will be in play for the 153rd Open in the next week, it is a monster of a hole. It is also the highest point on the course, and one of the most exposed. Back in his amateur days of playing in the North of Ireland championship, Pádraig Harrington recalls using a driver for one tee shot into a strong wind. READ MORE While a driver is unlikely to be in hand for any of these modern-day professionals in their quest to claim the Claret Jug , the task for one and all – of finding the green – will, in itself, be a challenge and especially so given that it comes so late in the round where the ability to rescue a card is lessened. Calamity overlooks the Valley course to the right, where part of that links has been turned into a driving range during The Open, and, hands up, the majority of times that I've played (to use the word loosely) the hole, my time has invariably involved negotiating a way down the sheer drop in search of a ball that has been attracted into the chasm as if by some magnetic force. Mountain goat terrain, for sure. Keith Mitchell on the 16th hole during a practice round before the 2019 Open at Royal Portrush. Photograph: Mike Ehrmann/Getty Such a fate will surely befall some poor soul at some stage during the week ahead, when the fourth and final Major of the season returns to the Co Antrim links for a third staging, and its reputation as a 'card wrecker,' as Royal Portrush's club professional Gary McNeill describes it, is one that will prey on the minds of some more than others. When the 148th Open returned to Royal Portrush in 2019, only 41 per cent of the field – through the four rounds of the championship – managed to find the green with their tee shots on 16. That statistic ranked as the lowest of any green found in regulation. The 16thranked as the third-toughest hole on the course, behind the 11th and 14th holes. In the run-up to the championship, former champion Henrik Stenson, on first playing the hole in practice, later quipped: 'Sixteen is that short, drivable par-4, isn't it?' For sure, it is not one that anyone forgets. 'It's a hole where if you get it wrong you can easily run up a double-bogey or worse, particularly if the player pushes it out to the right and doesn't make the carry across. The ball has a tendency to bounce and make its way right down to the base of that chasm and then you're at the mercy of what lie you get down there and you're trying to play a shot up a very steep bank to a blind target,' explained McNeill of the challenge. The bottom of the chasm is close to 30m (100ft) below the green, which says all that needs to be said about players ensuring that such an escape act is not required. 'Mountain goat territory': The 16th on the Dunluce course. Photograph: David Cannon/Getty In 1951, on The Open's first visit to the links, the great South African player Bobby Locke made sure such a feat did not fall to him by aiming left of the green in all four rounds. Locke identified a small bowl-shaped hollow to the left, short of the green, and found it, making pars in all four rounds. That small plot is, to this day, known as 'Locke's Hollow'. Back then, Calamity was actually the 14th and only became the 16th after Martin Ebert of Mackenzie & Ebert golf course architects – who work closely with the R&A on links which form the Open rota – was brought in ahead of the 2019 championship to make course changes which saw the old 17th and 18th holes removed and two new holes, what became the seventh and eighth, created in the dunes of the Valley course, in such a way that it would seem they were always part of Dunluce itself. 'The general feeling was that the course changes led to an improvement of the Dunluce Links. Subsequently, the members and visitors seem to have accepted the changes as having had a positive impact. The immediate sight of the seventh, stretching away in the distance when you turn the corner of the road leading to Portrush, is one of the most exciting views in golf and one that leads to a huge sense of anticipation of what is to come if you are playing the Dunluce,' remarked Ebert of the additions. Calamity, though, was untouched because it didn't need to be. It remains as it was when Harry Colt created his masterpiece, his vision for the par 3 for the tee shot to be played across the chasm with all the peril involved. Calamity Corner – at 236 yards – is not the longest par 3 on the Open rota. The 16th at Carnoustie comes in at 248 yards. The 17th at Royal Troon at 242 yards. Unlike those two, however, it is that chasm – which Colt used so tellingly all those years ago – that, visually, makes it so different. And, for all its difficulty, and the notoriety that the 16th hole has gained, the examination will be a tough one but a fair one with, as ever, the wind a factor too. As Darren Clarke, who knows the Dunluce Links as well as any other man, put it, 'the thing about Royal Portrush, it's a fair golf course. If you play well around Portrush you should have the opportunity to score well. If you're missing too many shots you're not going to get around Portrush, and that's the way it is. That's why it's a Harry Colt masterpiece.'
San Francisco Chronicle
11-07-2025
- Sport
- San Francisco Chronicle
Today in Sports - Novak Djokovic defends his title for 3rd Wimbledon crown; beats Roger Federer
July 12 1901 — Cy Young of the Boston Red Sox wins his 300th game with a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia A's. 1930 — Bobby Jones wins the U.S. Open. Jones, who also won the British Open, the American Amateur and the British Amateur, becomes the only golfer to take all four events in the same year. 1954 — The Major League Baseball Players Association is founded. 1964 — Mickey Wright wins the U.S. Women's Open for the fourth time by defeating Ruth Jessen by two strokes in a playoff. 1970 — Jack Nicklaus wins his second British Open, beating Doug Sanders by one stroke in an 18-hole playoff at the Old Course in St Andrews, Scotland. It's the first playoff at The Open since 1963 and the first at 18 holes. 1975 — Tom Watson wins an 18-hole playoff by one stroke over Jack Newton to win the British Open at Carnoustie Golf Links in Scotland. 1980 — Mary Decker has her fourth record-setting performance of the year, setting an American mark in the 1,500-meter run with a time of 4:01.17 at an international meet at Stuttgart. 1995 — Noureddine Morceli of Algeria shatters his world record for 1,500 meters at the Nikaia Grand Prix in Nice, France, with a time of 3:27.37. It is the second world record for Morceli in 10 days. 1996 — Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract with the Chicago Bulls, for 1 year for $30.1 million. 1996 — Kirby Puckett, MLB centerfielder, retires after 12 seasons from Minnesota Twins, due to loss of vision in one eye. 1998 — France wins soccer's World Cup, beating heavily favored Brazil 3-0 in the championship match. 1999 — The U.S. men's basketball team wins its sixth straight World University Games gold medal and 40th straight game — both records — by routing Yugoslavia 79-65 in the final. 2012 — Every country competing at the London Games includes female athletes for the first time in Olympic history after Saudi Arabia agreed to send two women to compete in judo and track and field. 2014 — Mario Goetze volleys in the winning goal in extra time to give Germany its fourth World Cup title with a 1-0 victory over Argentina. The win is Germany's first as a united country. West Germany won the World Cup in 1954, 1974 and 1990. 2015 — Novak Djokovic gets the better of Roger Federer at Wimbledon, beating him in four sets to win his third Wimbledon title and ninth Grand Slam championship. 2015 — South Korea's In Gee Chun birdies four of the last seven holes to rally for a one-stroke victory at the U.S. Women's Open. The 20-year old Chun shoots a 4-under 66 in the final round and finished at 8 under, becoming the first player to win her U.S. Open debut since Birdie Kim in 2005.
