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Young Tom Morris
British
20th April 1851 (died 1875)
St. Andrews, Scotland
Old Tom Norris
Son of the famous Old Tom Morris he was destined for a magnificent but short, l
asting less than ten years, career in golf.
Broad shouldered, with strong hands, a powerful and quick game coupled with one of the
best putting games that golf has ever seen - that was Young Tom Morris.
Playing in tournaments from the age of thirteen and winning his first Open Championship in 1868.
This achievement was followed in 1869 and 1870.
Three wins in a row was enough for Young Tom Morris to claim the Open Championship Trophy as his own,
at that time the trophy was a red leather belt decorated in silver
- donated by Prestwick Golf Club at a cost of £25 - the home of the Open Championship up to 1870 ,
and to make the organisers of the competition look for a different format.
This took time with the result that the Open Championship did not take place again until 1872 and when it did
it was to be rotated between three venues with the now famous Claret Jug as the trophy.
Young Tom Morris, however, was to continue his reign of unmatched success as he took the
new trophy - the Claret Jug - in 1872 thus making it his fourth successive victory in a row.
Disaster then descended on the most outstanding player of his era. His wife died in childbirth in 1875 whilst he was
playing a challenge match at Prestwick. He was never to recover from the shock
and a few months later he followed the woman he loved, many believed that he had died of a broken heart.
Whatever the reason Golf had lost a true ambassador of the game.
At the age of twenty four he was a truly remarkable player and one wonders what other records he may have set had he lived.
A memorial to him can be found in the grounds of St. Rule's Cathedral in St. Andrews but
his golfing success is etched in the memory of golfers around the world.
WON
DATE
Open Championship
1868, 1869, 1870, 1872
World Cup Hall of Fame
1975