Fratty Celebrity of the Month: August 2007

To honor the start of the 89th PGA Championship Tournament this weekend, we decided to pick a golfer as our fratty celebrity for the month of August.  After a very brief deliberation, we decided that there was only one man we could choose…Bobby Jones, Sigma Alpha Epsilon (Georgia Tech). 

Robert Tyre “Bobby” Jones, a native of Atlanta, Georgia, attended college at his home school of Georgia Tech.  However, he was a man that realized that a graduate degree can be a key part of post-grad fratting, so he also acquired a degree in English from Harvard.  Still not content with his education, Jones then attended law school at Emory.  He did not obtain his law degree from Emory.  Why?  Because he passed the bar exam after his first year of law school.

Jones never gave up his amateur status, and never played golf full time, as he believed in spreading his intense fratitude around to a number of different pursuits.  In fact, he quit playing tournaments entirely at the age of 28.  However, this was not before he racked up 4 U.S. Open titles along with 3 wins in the British Open.  He retired to focus on his Atlanta law practice, where he continued practicing a level of post-grad fratting that was rarely seen in his era.

Of course, we would be remiss not to mention perhaps the frattiest thing Jones ever did:  designing Augusta National.  This accomplishment alone would place Jones among the elite fratstars of all time.

The next time you’re getting ready to tee off, say a silent thank you to the pillar of fratitude who helped make golf one of the staples of the fratty lifestyle:  Bobby Jones.