The Life of Tom Morris, with glimpses of St Andrews and its golfing celebrities. Dieser Artikel ist nicht verfügbar.The Life of Tom Morris, with glimpses of St Andrews and its golfing celebrities

334p. Decorated cloth. Illustrated with plates from photographs, including frontispiece. 21.8x14 cm. (8½x5½"), original pictorial green cloth stamped in white, light blue, black and red-orange, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in black. First Edition. Very Fine condition, almost no loss of paint to the front board and spine, slight raising of cloth on spine, but still very good, one small depression near right hand clubs grip on spine, see photograph, often very worn, and foxed, completely free of foxing, as good a copy as we have seen. Biography of Scotland's most famous golfer, and now a classic golf book. Old Tom Morris set the record for the largest margin of victory ever when he won the 1862 British Open by 13 strokes; his son, Young Tom Morris, won the 1870 British Open by 12 strokes, a margin not matched until April 13, 1997, when Tiger Woods won the Augusta Masters. D&J T16600. Good clean copy, free of inscriptions and foxing.