with the founding father of golf sitting proudly on a bronze plinth on Bow Butts close to the 18 th green at the Old Course. I don’t know what to say. The Tom Morris statue has been damaged again.

He would generally outhit Old Tom. Old Tom’s son Young Tommy Morris developed more of a reputation as a long hitter than his father during his tragically short career. Old Tom began his playing ...

Old Tom Morris’s name is one of the most recognizable in golf. Until his death at 86, when he fell down a flight of stairs in The New Golf Club at St. Andrews, he was the most famous personality ...