(Editor’s note: This story first ran in The Columbus Dispatch on Dec. 20, 2016.)
Six days before golf balls rained upon the 1926 U.S. Open at Scioto Country Club, a deluge of ticker-tape confetti poured on Bobby Jones as the golfer traveled through New York’s Canyon of Heroes.
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Jones, the pre-eminent amateur player in the world, was being feted for winning the British Open two weeks earlier — just the third time an athlete had been honored with a parade down Broadway. But winning the Claret Jug was just the beginning of what would become a sensational season for the 24-year-old Georgian,
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