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Tommy's Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son Paperback – March 27, 2008

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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Avery; Reprint edition (March 27, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1592403425
  • ISBN-13: 978-1592403424
  • Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.9 x 8 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsEarly golf history comes to life!
By T. Ferris on May 12, 2007
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If you're a golf history nut, or just interested in late 1800's-early 1900's, you'll love this book. If you just like to know more about the great game of golf, this is your book. Kevin Cook brings the world of St. Andrews and Scotland to life. You can just about smell the oil lamps burning on the streets or the low tide blowing in from the North Sea. Oh, and the history of Tom Morris and his son, Tommy, is just amazing. I felt like I was reading a novel but is was true! If you love golf or know someone that loves the game you must get this book. It's a classic.
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5.0 out of 5 starsTom and Tommy Morris Come Alive Again
By Robert Calcagno on May 13, 2007
Format: Hardcover
Kevin Cook's poignant biography of the Morrises brings Tom and Tommy alive for his readers. It's much more than a story of their lives. It's about fathers and sons, families, social classes, golf, and the birth of the touring golf professional.

Tom's story gives us a keen insight into golf and a golfer's life in the second half of the 19th century. Many aspects of golf have changed over the years and, surprisingly, many have remained exactly as they were 150 years ago.

The reason for the seemingly strange title is revealed in the final sentence of the book.

This book should be on every golfer's Best-Sellers list.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA wonderful piece of scholarship told beautifully
By Lyle Slovick on September 17, 2007
Format: Hardcover
If I were to recommend a single book to read about the famous Morris family, it would be Kevin Cook's Tommy's Honor: The Story of Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris, Golf's Founding Father and Son. Many of us know the familiar history of these men - of Old Tom's falling out with famous ball maker and player Allan Robertson, and of Young Tom dying of a broken heart on Christmas Day. This book goes beyond that and reveals fascinating layers of their lives previously unexamined.

This work is a wonderfully crafted narrative along the lines of Mark Frost's The Greatest Game Ever Played. It draws on facts gleaned from numerous sources, including contemporary newspaper accounts, and creates a compelling story of father and son. We are taken inside their lives in equal measure. We can feel the cold water of St. Andrews Bay as Old Tom goes for his morning swim, we are inside Allan Robertson's kitchen as Tom makes feathery balls for him. We witness his big money matches, we move with Tom, wife Nancy and baby Tommy to Prestwick, we win Opens with him and then return to St. Andrews and follow Young Tom's ascendency to golf immortality.

The enduring impact Old Tom had as Keeper of the Green at St. Andrews and his lasting legacy on the game of golf is developed quite thoroughly. Cook even touches on the class differences between Tom and the men of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews he served. Old Tom is portrayed as a man with great dedication to his family and profession. Beyond that, he also possessed a steady, dignified grace. The following passages are illustrative of both Cook's scholarship and expressive style:

"For greens other than the one at the wet High Hole he used clay pipes as hole liners.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Best Golf (and Non-Fiction) Book I've Ever Read
By bev on October 2, 2015
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One of the best books I've ever read, period. The author does incredible job of telling the history of golf and giving personalities to these iconic figures while remaining accurate to historical events. He ties well-known events to the people connected to them, and does so through an amazingly easy and fun read that feels more like a fiction than non-fiction. If you're a fan golf and/or this period of history it's a MUST READ. If you're fanatical about both like me then it'll go down as one of your all-time favorites that you'll enjoy reading again and again.
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5.0 out of 5 starsHistory of Golf: The Tom Morrises
By G. A. Richey on January 6, 2008
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"Tommy's Honor" is a great read for the golfer or non-golfing history buff. The research is extraordinary and gives the reader an indepth look at this one slice of the pie of a very specific period in the history of golf and those who shaped the game. The book's insights into the game will be of great interest to the golfer. The narrative---Tommy's story is a great story and a great story told extremely well by the author!-- will be interesting to anyone who enjoys historical biography. This is a serious book yet easy to read. The story is one of triumph, wit and tragedy. A good history book will always generate in the reader's mind parallels to contemporary events. "Tommy's Honor" certainly does. I found that the book underscores the pretension and enforcement of class superiority that exists at most golfing clubs still today.....how club patrons perceive, disregard or denigrate the roles of "subservient" club employees while it is these same professional employees and NOT the patrons who in reality maintain and add to the history and integrity and development of the game; unsung heroes. "Tommy's Honor" is an awesome read. It's one of those books added to my bookcase and not passed on to someone else. It's a keeper!
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5.0 out of 5 starsTommy's Honor
By James W. Skelton, Jr. on August 28, 2007
Format: Hardcover
This work by Kevin Cook is the best historical golf book I have ever read. Cook brings the characters to life by providing personal insights he garnered through research of local newspapers and other articles he was able to find about Old Tom and and Young Tom Morris. It is a remarkable tale that reveals details about mid 19th century life and golf in Scotland in a way that has never been accomplished before.
I highly recommend the book to any and all readers who have an interest in the beginnings of the game of golf and its founding fathers.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars

This is a great book about the history of golf and how different golf was in the 1800's.

Published 8 days ago by John Piffer
5.0 out of 5 starsHistory & More

The super- and merely- human aspects of Old & Young Tom , as well as golf itself, unfold like flower petals in sunshine. Read more

Published 9 days ago by J Krafft
5.0 out of 5 starsExcellent biography and history

Excellent biography, golf history, and social history... on par with The Greatest Game Ever Played; indeed, Tommy's Honor paired with GGEP would be a superb one-two punch.

Published 2 months ago by Curt
5.0 out of 5 starsTomo Morris

Great story about Golf. Excellent read.

Published 2 months ago by Gene Vierra
5.0 out of 5 starsLoved it!

Best book on any part of golf. A must read. Especially before visiting Scotland. Highly recommended to anyone. You won't be disappointed.

Published 3 months ago by Mark W Foster
4.0 out of 5 starsBorderline Biographical

I am an avid golfer, an amateur historian and a frequent traveler (usually in conjunction with golf), having been to England, Scotland and Ireland on several occasions. Read more

Published 4 months ago by Steven M. Anthony
5.0 out of 5 starsGood read

Very interesting and gives a great background into the Old Course.

Published 4 months ago by Oldpiper
3.0 out of 5 starsThe thing I liked about the game of golf was I had no ...

The thing I liked about the game of golf was I had no idea that it went back centuries. What I didn't like about it was everyone who teed off seemed to hit the ball "far and... Read more

Published 4 months ago by William T. Ryan
5.0 out of 5 starsThis book was not only an excellent biography on Tom Morris and his...

This book was not only an excellent biography on Tom Morris and his son Tommy Morris but also included a well documented history of golf. Read more

Published 5 months ago by Jack N. Hatfield
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat read. My only regret is that I read ...

Great read. My only regret is that I read it after and not before making my golf pilgrimage to Scotland.

Published 6 months ago by John Matthews

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