Tommy's Honour

Author:

By Kevin Cook

Awards:

William Hill Sports Book Of The Year Award Short Listed 2007

Format:

Hardback (Paperback)

Availability:

In print, usually dispatched within 3-4 days.

Price:

£16.99 £15.29 (Save 10%)

Tagged with:

Golf, Biography, Tom Morris

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Further Details

• Published: 4th Jun 2007
• ISBN: 0007217277
• Pages: 336
• Size: 234mm x 153mm

From the Publisher:

The definitive account of golf's pioneering father and son. Old and Young Tom Morris - the master teacher and the brilliant pupil who rose to challenge his mentor's supremacy. Two men from one household with ambitions that made them devoted partners as well as ardent foes.

Tommy's Honour is a compelling story of the two Tom Morrises, father and son, both supremely talented golfers but utterly different, constituting a record-breaking golfing dynasty that has never been known before or since.

Father, Old Tom Morris, grew up a stone's throw away from golf's ancestral home at St Andrews, a whisky-fuelled caddie, a wonderful 19th century character who became an Open Champion three times before running the Royal & Ancient, then sole governing body of the game. His son, Young Tom, arguably an even more prodigious talent than his father, was a golfing genius, the Tiger Woods of his era, who at 17 became the youngest player, to this day, to win the Open Championship. He then went on to win it four times in a row, an unprecedented achievement. On one occasion, father and son fought it out at the last hole of the Championship before the son finally triumphed.