1927 US Amateur at Minikahda Club Series Ticket #824 - Bobby Jones Winner - Only One Known
"The Atlantan is simply burning up the golf course, making par look silly and taking the hearts out of his competitors," as stated by the Jersey Journal newspaper on August 27, 1927. The USGA astutely awarded Bobby Jones the number 1 seed. In the semi-finals Jones retired the "Father of Amateur Golf" Francis Ouimet 11 and 10. During the 36-hole matches Jones would card scores of 67 in the qualifying round against Maurice McCarthy, followed by 68 against Jimmy Johnston in the quarterfinals, 69 in the semi-finals against Ouimet and a 67 again in the finals downing Chick Evans 8&7. This tournament was only a month after breaking St. Andrews' four round course record, which stood since 1908, to win the Open by six strokes.
This very ticket was sported in plain sight from August 22nd-27th by a spectator taking in Bobby Jones' third of five US Amateur wins and seventh major championship - emerging as the lone known survivor from that historic performance narrowly preceding the Great Depression in impeccable condition. According to Gilchrist this ticket is “None Known." Since that there have been no known sales of this ticket. An over exuberant fan had written on the front “ Bobby Jones beat Chick Evans 8 Up” - a record finals match that gave Bobby Jones his third Havemeyer Trophy win in four years. That highlight was penned nearly 100 years ago by that eyewitness to cement the story and ticket correlation with history. Beyond the 1927 program, memorabilia from this tournament is very scarce. This ticket the only example known of its kind.
Bobby Jones would win his 3rd USGA Amateur Championship at the Minikahda Club in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1927, with many saying it was one of the most dominating victories of his illustrious career - hard to argue that. The USGA, 11 years after the US Open, made a return trip to Minikahda for the U.S. Amateur Championship setting the scene for Jones' revenge after falling short at the tournament in 1926.
Deep red with robust black print and double outline on time-period octagonal cardstock with its original off-white string, this is the lone known existing octagonal ducat that was sold to the patrons for the weekly price of $5.50 including tax. This example would be presented to an individual with heightened significance as it was stamped 'Complimentary - Not Transferable' across the bottom. Spalding Golf Balls was the proud advertiser on the verso that they had been 'played by the winners of the United States Open Golf Championship since 1910 - except in 1922, as well as since 1913 with two exceptions for the US Amateur and British Open Championships.' They followed that u with, "It happens too often to call it luck!" What doesn't happen often is this ticket coming to market, with this being the first and only known 1927 US Amateur at Minnikahda Club example preserved to very good condition as it is quickly approaching a century later. For the collector/investor, this was a population 0 Bobby Jones major ticket until the offering here making a Pop-1 possible.
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