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The Long Golden Afternoon tells the story of the transformative
generation of golf that followed the rise of Young Tom Morris - an
era of sweeping change that saw Scotland's national pastime become
one of the rare games played around the world. It begins with the
first epochal performance after Tommy - John Ball's victory at
Prestwick in 1890 as the first Englishman and the first amateur to
win the Open Championship - and continues through the outbreak of
the Great War. If Tommy ignited the flame of golf in England,
Ball's breakthrough turned that smoldering fire into a
conflagration. The generation that followed would witness the
game's coming of age. It would see an explosion in golf's
popularity, the invention of revolutionary new balls and clubs, the
emergence of professional tours, the organization of the game and
its rules, a renaissance in writing and thinking about golf, and
the decision that the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews
must always remain the sport's guiding light.
Shortlisted for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards Biography of the
Year 'A splendid new biography. How good was young Tom Morris?
Stephen Proctor makes his case cogently. Young Tom Morris was one
of the greatest of them all' - Allan Massie Young Tom Morris, the
son of the legendary pioneer of golf, Tom Morris, was golf's first
superstar. Born at a pivotal moment in history, just as the new and
inexpensive 'gutty' ball was making golf affordable and drawing
thousands of new players to the game, his genius and his
swashbuckling personality would set a game that had been frozen in
amber for four centuries on the pathway to becoming worldwide
spectator sport we know today. Exhaustively researched and
beautifully illustrated, Monarch of the Green is a stirring and
evocative history of Tommy's life (which also includes, for the
first time, a compilation of his competitive record in stroke-play
tournaments, singles matches, and foursomes) and demonstrates how,
in one dazzling decade, this young superstar dominated the sport
like few others have ever done.
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offered to everyone. It is the chance for you to change the world
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