The Life of Tom Morris

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The Life of Tom Morris With Glimpses of St Andrews and its Golfing Celebrities

W W Tulloch. London: T Werner Laurie [1908] decorated green cloth gilt, uncut, bookplates, frontispiece (with guard) and plates, 334 pages, light foxing throughout

A bright copy of this contemporary account of Old Tom’s life and times.

Old Tom, the Grand Old Man of golf, was a colossus amongst golfers. He was the first real golfing celebrity, winning the Open on four occasions. He looked after the St Andrews links for many years, as well as a spell at Prestwick, and generally bestrode the golf world in the latter half of the nineteenth century. As well as being a champion player, he was a green keeper, a golf architect and an accomplished club and ball maker – “a bodies’ bodie”, meaning all things to all men. Until David Malcolm’s book came along this was the only biography of Old Tom [see Malcolm & Crabtree Tom Morris The Colossus of St Andrews in book section].