Lot 356
TULLOCH, W.W.
Auction: 12 July 2004 at 11:30 BST
£917
Description
The Life of Tom Morris, with Glimpses of St. Andrews and its Golfing Celebrities... 1st edition, illustrated from twenty-seven photographs, frontispiece, original pictorial green cloth cover, spine lettered in gilt, front cover lettered in black, T. Werner Laurie, London, circa 1908
Footnote
Biography of Scotland's most famous golfer. 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. Donovan & Murdoch