CUSTOM NIBLICK - 9 IRON -DESIGNED BY BOBBY JONE FOR SPALDING - EARLY 1930S

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CUSTOM NIBLICK  - 9 IRON  -DESIGNED BY BOBBY JONE FOR SPALDING  - EARLY 1930S - It is my understanding that the Spalding Custom line was a prototype to the rare and very collectable and expensive hickory shafted irons that were offered only in 1933 with the Bobby Jone's signature. They appear identical except for the stamping on the back of the head. The club head has been reglued and pinned. This style of  irons were offered in 1934 as coated Pyrotone steel shafts only. E2 swingweight.
Jones was born on March 17, 1902 in Atlanta, Georgia. As an adult, he hit his stride and won his first U.S. Open in 1923. From that win at New York's Inwood Country Club, through his 1930 victory in the U.S. Amateur, he won 13 major championships (as they were counted at the time) in 21 attempts. Jones is the only player ever to have won the (pre-Masters) Grand Slam, or all four major championships, in the same calendar year (1930). Jones' path to the 1930 Grand Slam title was:
The Amateur Championship, Old Course at St Andrews, Scotland (May 31, 1930)
The Open Championship, Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, England (June 20, 1930)
U.S. Open, Interlachen Country Club, Minnesota (July 12, 1930)
U.S. Amateur, Merion Golf Club, Pennsylvania (September 27, 1930[17])
Jones was successful outside of golf. He earned his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1922 and played for the varsity golf team, lettering all four years. He then earned an A.B. in English Literature from Harvard College in 1924, where he was a member of the Owl Club. In 1926 he entered Emory University School of Law and became a member of Phi Delta Phi.[33] After only three semesters he passed the Georgia bar exam and subsequently joined his father's law firm.
Jones made 18 instructional golf films in Hollywood between 1931 and 1933 in which he coached well-known film stars on golf. The films were popular, and Jones gave up his amateur status while earning lucrative contract money for this venture
In the early 1930s Jones worked with J Victor East (an Australian) of A.G. Spalding & Co. to develop the first set of matched steel-shafted clubs; the clubs sold very well and are still considered among the best-designed sets ever made