Monarch of the Green: Young Tom Morris: Pioneer of Modern Golf [Paperback]

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 MassieYoung Tom Morris, the son of the legendary pioneer of golf, Tom Morris, was golfs 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 Tommys 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.Exhaustively researched and beautifully illustrated, Monarch of the Green is a stirring and evocative history of the life of Young Tom Morris, and demonstrates how, in one dazzling decade, this young superstar dominated the sport like few others have ever done.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'Brings to sharp focus the impact this young golfing genius had on the formative years of the game. Proctors clean and readable style, grounded in solid research & puts into context what the prodigy accomplished. &Proctor paints Young Tom in a fresh light, as the young man who revolutionized the way the game was played and whose brilliant star was so quickly extinguished in tragedy. If you would know Young Tom and his impact on golf [this] is the book you must read'Tells of the short but significant life of golfing legend ylÃS