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Independent publisher Icon Books has won the Times Sports Book of the Year Award with Steven Reid’s Bobby’s Open: Mr Jones and the Golf Shot that Defined a Legend.
The winning title was selected by a public vote, with more than 3,000 casting a ballot. In the end, Reid’s book took 45% of the total votes cast.
The title had previously won the Best Golf Book at the British Sports Book Awards, putting it forward for the overall award against other category winners.
John Hopkins, former golf correspondent of the The Times and head of the golf book judges said: “Bobby Jones in golf is a bit like Richard Wagner in music, an heroic figure about whom a great deal has been written down the years. This means that the Jones seam has been well mined. Steven Reid's trick is to have unearthed some new information which he has leavened with material that was known and presented it all in a thoughtful and thought provoking way."
The book was first published in June 2012. Author Reid is a golf writer who is also chief medical officer at the Royal & Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.