Tommy's Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son

Tommy's Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son

by Kevin Cook
Tommy's Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son

Tommy's Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son

by Kevin Cook

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Overview

In the tradition of Seabiscuit, the riveting tale of two proud Scotsmen who beat all comers to become the heroes of a golden age—the dawn of professional golf. This essential golf history is now a major motion picture.

Bringing to life golf’s founding father and son, Tommy’s Honor is a stirring tribute to two legendary players and a vivid evocation of their colorful, rip-roaring times.

The Morrises were towering figures in their day. Old Tom, born in 1821, began life as a nobody—he was the son of a weaver and a maid. But he was born in St. Andrews, Scotland, the cradle of golf, and the game was in his blood. He became the Champion Golfer of Scotland, a national hero who won tournaments (and huge bets) while his young son looked on. As "Keeper of the Green" at the town’s ancient links, Tom deployed golf’s first lawnmower and banished sheep from the fairways.

Then Young Tommy’s career took off. Handsome Tommy Morris, the Tiger Woods of the nineteenth century, was a more daring player than his father. Soon he surpassed Old Tom and dominated the game. But just as he reached his peak—with spectators flocking to see him play—Tommy’s life took a tragic turn, leading to his death at the age of twenty-four. That shock is at the heart of Tommy’s Honor. It left Tom to pick up the pieces—to honor his son by keeping Tommy’s memory alive.

Like the New York Times bestseller The Greatest Game Ever PlayedTommy’s Honor is both fascinating history and a moving personal saga. Golfers will love it, but this book isn’t only for golfers. It’s for every son who has fought to escape a father’s shadow and for every father who had guided a son toward manhood, then found it hard to let him go.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781101216866
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 04/05/2007
Sold by: Penguin Group
Format: eBook
Pages: 336
Sales rank: 163,074
File size: 1 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

About The Author
Kevin Cook is the former editor in chief of Golf Magazine. An award-winning journalist, Cook has been a senior editor at Sports Illustrated, an executive editor at Travel & Leisure Golf, and a guest commentator on CNN and ESPN.

What People are Saying About This

David Feherty

Truly beautiful. In this superbly researched and wonderfully written book, Kevin Cook has unearthed the true and tragic story of the patron saints of golf, and painted a vivid picture of the rogues and heroes who inhabited the old gray towns and their links in the middle of the 19th century. Tommy's Honor will draw you into its pages until you can smell damp tweed and caddie's-breath whisky. (David Feherty, author of A Nasty Bit of Rough and Somewhere in Ireland, A Village is Missing an Idiot)

Thomas Moore

Tommy's Honor is a book filled with stylish writing and the best kind of nostalgia. It tells as much about the game of life as the game of golf-it's moving, engaging, and deeply satisfying. The best of human values rise up out of its stories of fathers and sons, wives and children, and games of honor and pathos. (Thomas Moore, author of Dark Nights of the Soul)

Ben Crenshaw

A stirring tale of tragedy, triumph, faith and perseverance. Kevin Cook reveals Old Tom Morris as golf's first hero, a paragon who worked to make St. Andrews the symbol of the game's enduring greatness. Every golfer should read Tommy's Honor. (Ben Crenshaw, Two-Time Masters Winner)

Michael Murphy

Among the countless graces bestowed on the game of golf, none surpass its fostering by the Morrises during the years of its modern birth at St. Andrew's. Old Tom and Young Tom will always be intimately and wondrously present at the Old Course, and in the game's history books, and in our sense of the game's genius for love and good fellowship. Tommy's Honor brings them closer than ever before, with the joy, the heartache, the tears, and the pride we feel for them and each other. (Michael Murphy, author of Golf in the Kingdom)

James Dodson

Because of their lofty place in the hierarchy of game's founding figures, the true and heartbreaking story of Old and Young Tom Morris has remained a tale cloaked in a little too much mysticism and romance -- until now. With Tommy's Honor, Kevin Cook puts real flesh on the bones of two fascinating men, a founding father and son whose triumphs and tragedies helped shape the game we know and love today. It's a fine and elegiac story you won't soon forget. (James Dodson, author of Final Rounds)

Pete Dye

A wonderful story of Scottish golf history. (Pete Dye, world-renowned course architect)

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