- Amateur golfer considered by many to be the best player to swing a club.
- Posthumously retains the title of President-in-perpetuity of Augusta National Golf Club: the home of the Masters Golf Tournament, and a course which he himself designed.
- Took up golf as a boy when he was deemed "too sickly" for football.
- Has a road (I-520/Bobby Jones Expressway) named after him in Augusta, Georgia.
- Inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.
- Inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1964.
- Inducted into the Atlanta Sports Hall of Fame in 2005 (inaugural class).
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