Complex sentence: Encouraged by his father, "Colonel" Robert Purmedus Jones, an Atlanta lawyer, Jones loved golf from the start and won his first children's tournament when he was six, qualified for the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur at 14 at Merion near Philadelphia.
Split into simpler sentences: Encouraged by his father, "Colonel" Robert Purmedus Jones, an Atlanta lawyer, Jones loved golf from the start. He developed quickly into a child prodigy, who won his first children's tournament at the age of six, and made the quarterfinals of the U.S. Amateur at 14 at Merion near Philadelphia.