Tommy's Honour - The Extraordinary Story of Golf's Founding Father and Son

Informationen zum Autor 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. 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 – whom he joined as senior editor in 1997 – and discusses the game as an analyst on ESPN. Klappentext The compelling story of the 2 Tom Morrises, father and son, both supremely talented golfers but utterly different, constituting a record-breaking golfing dynasty that has never been known before or since. 'Kevin Crook tells the story with great tenderness and no little humour.' "Daily Telegraph" Zusammenfassung The definitive account of golf’s founding father and son, Old and Young Tom Morris. For the first time, the two are portrayed as men of flesh and blood – heroic but also ambitious, loving but sometimes confused and angry. Two men from one household, with ambitions that made them devoted partners as well as ardent foes.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Cook, Cook Kevin
• Publisher: Harper Collins Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.06.2008
• EAN: 9780007271245
• ISBN: 978-0-00-727124-5
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Golf, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports, SPORTS & RECREATION / Football, SPORTS & RECREATION / Golf, Biography: sport