John Jones Music

John Jones on the 9th hole at Pebble Beach with Carmel behind

John Jones and Neal Hotelling at the Lodge at Pebble Beach

Just for a moment, I won the trophy!

2010 U.S. open Champion John Jones at Pebble Beach

After a little over 7 hours playing 2 balls on every hole and walking about 4 1/2 miles at  the Arcadia Golf Course in 95 degree weather we all managed to complete 100 holes for the SCGA Foundation’s Marathon.

That’s 19 golfers and 6 juniors who raised $30,000 thanks to all of your pledges! (there’s still time to pledge)

My playing partner was Phil Queller, the Guinness World Record Holder for most holes of golf on foot in 12 hours: 276 holes!

Here we are on the 100th green, just after I made a birdie playing entirely with my 1931 wood shafted Willie Hunter 5 iron!

Phil and jj on the 100th green!

I am playing in the club championship of my municipal golf club, Rancho Park G.C., this weekend. I love it!

Is Golf cool? I don’t know, but I am not these guys:

Not Cool. The Bear will get them.

These are my boys:

No Bear problem in 1867.

Next month on June 5 at the Arcadia Golf Course I will attempt to play 100 holes of golf to sponsor the education of California Youth for the SCGA Foundation Golf Marathon.

Follow the link to the Participants and then enter JONES on the pledge form.

You can pledge as little as .25 cents or as much as you can afford. Thanks!

What a great week in Los Angeles. We’ve had unbelieveable weather. 70’s for days. Everything is green. The Jasmine is out. The Sycamores are two weeks into leafing. The air smells sweet. What more can you ask?

This past Friday, the 8th Annual Patrick J. Flanders II memorial charity golf tournament was played at Malibu Country Club. Raising awareness of the problem of Driving Under the Influence the event honors Patrick junior and all of our families and friends who have suffered the tragedy that drinking and driving causes.

After the tournament I performed Jealous Guy and Norwegian Wood with Herman on acoustic guitar and harmonies. We were followed by our AWAKE Community team leader, the brilliant Emily Richards on piano & vocal. Emily was wearing a neck brace covered by a scarf due to some overzealous head stands on the beach in La Jolla recently!

The 2010 Awake Community golf team – J.B. Jones, Dale Richards, Bob Jones & Mike Folkerds

The flowers at the back of the second green were beautiful. The camera cannot do it justice.

The Pepall’s were in town last week from Toronto and Jack and I played golf with Bobby Jones at Los Angeles Country Club. The more famous and difficult North course is under renovation so we walked the beautiful South course. Both courses were designed by Herbert Fowler in 1920 with later modifications by George Thomas and Billy Bell.

Jones, Jones and Pepall with Century City behind