ATLANTA Almost 100 years ago, Bobby Jones gained worldwide renown as a champion golfer from Atlanta and earned acclaim as one of the sport’s all-time greats.

Today, Shelton Davis is another Atlantan trying to leave his mark on the game, a 37-year-old assistant golf pro at John A. White Golf Course in southwest Atlanta. One wonders what Jones, who died in 1971 at the age of 69, would have made of Davis’ golf-centered YouTube channel, ATL Swing King.

They are two men of different races (Jones was white, Davis is Black), eras and worlds. But they shared at least two improbable connections. Both grew up in the same Atlanta neighborhood, East Lake. And, through East Lake Golf Club, decades apart, both held dear the same man.

On July 15, the golf community in Atlanta and Georgia lost an impa

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