Ray Billows - The Cinderella Kid: The unlikely and colorful story of a world-class amateur golfer

By Tom Buggy

In 1935, just five years after the great Bob Jones won his Grand Slam and retired from competition, a 20-year-old amateur golfer in a struggling family left Racine WI for a $17-a-week shipping clerk job in Poughkeepsie NY. Ray Billows brought with him a self-taught golf game from the caddie ranks, a gritty determination, and wondrous dreams of competing at the highest level of amateur golf. He brought little else. This book tells his story, a story that is sprinkled with thrilling golf, wonderful success, cruel disappointment, personal highlights, humorous anecdotes with Bob Jones, the Duke of Windsor, Babe Ruth and others, and a player's reputation as one of the finest gentlemen in the game. Illustrated with more than 40 photographs, the book also provides a snapshot of amateur golf in the 1930s and 1940s.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1387304550
• ISBN13: 9781387304554
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"