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June 27, 2005

Slam Tandem

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  JONES SORENSTAM
[SWING
QUIRK]
Pronounced hand
lag on backswing
Swivels head
toward target before impact
[CAREER
EARNINGS]
$0 $17,247,820
[COLLEGE] Georgia Tech (mechanical engineering);
Harvard (English lit); Emory (law)
Arizona (undeclared major)
[IN THE BAG] Mixed set--sometimes as
many as 20 clubs--of hickories
Calibrated Callaways -- 14 only
[ON-COURSE DEMEANOR] Grim but graceful. Played very
fast and sucked down cigarettes
almost as quickly
Pleasant but mechanical.
Her preshot routine
takes exactly
22 seconds for each shot
[WORKOUT] During winter of 1929 Jones
played badminton
like game called Doug
Hits the gym five
days a weeks when not playing
[MEDIA
RELATIONS]
O.B. Keeler did
Jones's talking for him
Not effusive and not
available the week
before the
Women's Open,
according to IMG
[FASHION STATEMENT] Elegant Athletic
[SPORTS
HERO]
Stewart Maiden (left) Bjorn Borg

Seventy-five years ago, at age 28, Bobby Jones won what was then considered the Grand Slam. He's still the only person to accomplish the feat, but Annika Sorenstam, 34, goes for the third leg of the LPGA Grand Slam this week at the U.S. Women's Open at Cherry Hills outside Denver. Here's how the two Slammers--one actual, one potential--stack up.

[This article contains a table. �Please see hard copy of magazine or PDF.]

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