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http://www.golf.com/tour-and-news/history-rees-jones-vs-robert-trent-jones-jr-feud

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The sibling architects Rees Jones and Robert Trent Jones Jr. are both in their 70s. But it seems like they’ve been squabbling since the dawn of time.

Over the past five decades, the blood between them has given rise to lawsuits, financial disputes and back-biting so petty and ego-centric you wish they’d just start filming the reality show. If they were twins, it was once written of the brothers, “their quarrel would have started in the womb.”

With the U.S. Open coming to Chambers Bay, the first Robert Trent Jones Jr. course to host our national championship, now’s a good time to take stock of the frought relations between the golf world’s Cain and Abel---minus, of course, the fratricide.

You know what they say, you can't choose your family. Some of the stuff seems downright petty.

Bill

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You know what they say, you can't choose your family. Some of the stuff seems downright petty.

I've been reading the Robert Trent Jones biography when I have time.

One of the kids got sick and the mother Ione took care of him for months, so those two became close, while the other brother felt neglected by his mother and was taken in by the father (RTJ Senior).

That, the book says, was the cause of the split. The original cause - there have been numerous things that have kept them apart, including battles over money, the rights to the name, etc.

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Feuding golf architects.   I can't think of a more hilarious pair of people who hate each other.

—Adam

 

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Feuding golf architects.   I can't think of a more hilarious pair of people who hate each other.

But feuding brothers, maybe they should start a rock band.

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