[Kevin Cook] ☆ Tommy's Honour: The Extraordinary Story of Golf's Founding Father and Son [Son Book] PDF æ Read Online eBook or Kindle ePUB

Winner of the 1998 Golf Writers' Association of America feature-writing award, he has also written for GQ, Playboy, Vogue, Golf Digest and Sports Ilustrated, and discusses the game as an analyst on ESPN. . He professes a feeling for this story 'in his bones', having been a golfer for 35 years and his late father a pr

Title	:	Tommy's Honour: The Extraordinary Story of Golf's Founding Father and Son
Author	:	Kevin Cook
Rating	:	4.90 (816 Votes)
Asin	:	0007271247
Format Type	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	384Pages
Publish Date	:	2014-5-10
Language	:	English

Winner of the 1998 Golf Writers' Association of America feature-writing award, he has also written for GQ, Playboy, Vogue, Golf Digest and Sports Ilustrated, and discusses the game as an analyst on ESPN.

. He professes a feeling for this story 'in his bones', having been a golfer for 35 years and his late father a professional athlete and serious gambler. He was amazed at how even hardcore golf fans knew next to nothing about Tom Morris, modern sport's first superstar. Kevin Cook, formerly a staff member at Golf Magazine, has been a sportswriter for 25 years and has spent a lot of that time researching the life of Tom Morris, having heard about the legend while playing the Old Course on his first trip to St Andrews in the late eighties

His son, Young Tom, was a golfing genius who at 17 became the youngest playerto this dayto win the Open Championship. After winning the Open Championship three times he became head of the Royal & Ancient, the governing body of golf. This is the inspiring and heart-wrenching story of the father-son team who together formed a record-breaking golfing dynasty.. Old Tom Morris grew up a stone's throw away from golf's ancestral home at St. Andrews. The sudden and unexpected deaths of Young Tom’s wife and unborn child, however, eventually lead to his tragic death at age 24, leaving Old Tom to mourn for another two decades. Young Tom won the Open four times in a rowan unprecedented achievementand together father and son stood as both founding figures in the world of golf and national celebrities

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He has done a lot of meticulous research and never puts a foot wrong. 'The best sports books present their heroes as complex people who happen to inhabit the world of games' Sports Illustrated 'Kevin Cook tells the story with great tenderness and no little humour. He captures the incestuous, money-obesessed, sometimes small-minded world of Scottish golf, delightfully.' 'unquestionably a book rather than a product, written for love and not lolly.' The Guardian . Tommy's Honour is the stand-out book on a strong short-list' (for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year) Daily Telegraph ' Cook's idiosyncratic history of the early days of professional golf is detailed, loving, and almost novelistic