1 Bobby Jones is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame and the Georgia Tech Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 1958. 2  He is also a member of the 1997 Georgia Tech Engineering Hall of Fame Class.
The phrase âa chip on oneâs shoulderâ is reported as originating with the nineteenth century U.S. practice of spoiling for a fight by carrying a chip of wood on oneâs shoulder, daring others to knock it off. This suggested derivation has more than the whiff of folk-etymology about it.
A Chip On Your Shoulder ( angry because of what happened in the past ... A person who has a chip on his shoulder is angry because of some thing that happened in the past. It is easy for a person to get in a fight when he has a chip on his shoulder, because he is already angry about something else.