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 person who has a chip on his shoulder is usually resentful but not necessarily angry because of something that happened or was imagined to have actually occurred in the past.he mental image for this idiom is usually a man with an actual chip of wood on one shoulder, daring a conversation partner or perhaps anyone in a nearby crowd, to try to knock the chip off -- the signal or challenge to physically fight, in order to establish who is right, believing that Might is Right.