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Bringing alive golf's founding daddy and kid, Tommy's Honor is a stirring tribute to two renowned players and a stunning evocation of their brilliant, rip-roaring times. The Morrises were towering numbers in their day. Old Tom started out life as a no one - he was the kid of the weaver and a maid. But he was created in St. Andrews, Scotland, the cradle of golf, and the game is at his blood vessels. He became the champion golfer of Scotland. As "Keeper of the Green" at the town's historical links, Tom deployed golf's first lawnmower and banished sheep from the fairways. Then Young Tommy's career became popular. Handsome Tommy Morris was a more daring player than his daddy. Soon he surpassed Old Tom and dominated the game. But just as he come to his peak, Tommy's life required a tragic change, resulting in his loss of life at age 24. That distress is at the heart and soul of Tommy's Honor. It remaining Tom to pick up the pieces - to honor his kid by keeping Tommy's memory alive. Tommy's Honor is both fascinating history and a moving personal saga. But this audiobook is not only for golfers. It's for every son who may have fought to flee a father's shadow and for every father who may have guided a kid toward manhood, then found it hard to let him go.
