Item #4793 The Life of Tom Morris, with glimpses of St Andrews and its golfing celebrities. Tulloch W. W.
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The Life of Tom Morris, with glimpses of St Andrews and its golfing celebrities.
The Life of Tom Morris, with glimpses of St Andrews and its golfing celebrities.

The Life of Tom Morris, with glimpses of St Andrews and its golfing celebrities.

London: Werner Laurie, 1907. 334pp. 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.

Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the blank leaf before half title page to "W.W. Tulloch. 1911. 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. Item #4793

D&J T16600.

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