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

If you've seen the movie and decided to skip the book, you're making a big mistake. While the movie gives a nice little story of Old and Young Tom, it barely scratches the surface of all the fascinating information present in the book. Cook has penned an outstanding biography that gives fascinating insights into the man who was certainly golf's greatest innovator, giving a deep feeling of the many challenges Old Tom faced and how he truly created the game we know today. The book was recommended by a caddy during a recent trip to Scotland, and it was especially poignant to read it having just visited many of the places where the Morris family made their mark. If you love golf, you owe it to yourself to read this, even if you normally shun other golf history books. This one is special.

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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I learned a lot about golf a game I've enjoyed playing for years. Tommy was an amazing gentleman. The architect of golf courses.

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 sure" and straight as an arrow - give me a break!

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. A must read for anyone with a passion for golf.

This was a great book. I love history and I love golf so what better way to combine the two? I just returned from Scotland where my daughter was studying abroad at St Andrews. Playing the Old Course is like no other golf in the world. The ghosts of the past surround and walk with you. How could I not become curious about the early founders of the sport? This book does a great job painting a portrait of Tommy Morris and his father, of the times they lived in, of golf at its infancy. It is a fascinating tale, easy to read and well written. I gave it to a friend and still haven't gotten it back.

The book begins with the father and then segues into the young Tommy. It takes you through the various tournaments they played and the evolution of early equipment. It ends with their deaths, but did they really die or does their legacy still live in every player who welds a stick.

The whiners out there ought to read this story of real golfers and real men. There were no smooth greens stempted at 10.5, range finders and cozy golf cars in this era. I could feel the chill of the Scottish coast on my face as I read this great novel. I have a lot of respect and appreciation for,Old Tom, the patriarch of the greatest game in the world. Young Tom may have been the greatest to ever play the game. What a sad set of circumstances surrounded him.

Simply put, this has it all, from facts we all thing we know, to the lives of this family both the glorious and the very lowest God can hand to us.

Great book, with detailed reporting on the life and times of Old Tom Morris and Tommy Morris. Really appreciated the abundant surrounding context that made St Andrews and Scotland come alive