(1821-06-16)16 June 1821 St Andrews, Fife, Scotland
Died
24 May 1908(1908-05-24) (aged 86) St Andrews, Scotland[3]
Sporting nationality
Scotland
Spouse
Agnes (Nancy) Bayne
(m. 1844; died 1876)
[2][3]
Children
4 (Tom, Elizabeth, James, John)[3]
Career
Status
Professional
Best results in major championships (wins: 4)
The Open Championship
Won: 1861, 1862, 1864, 1867[4]
Achievements and awards
World Golf Hall of Fame
1976 (member page)
Thomas Mitchell Morris (16 June 1821 – 24 May 1908), otherwise known as Old Tom Morris, and The Grand Old Man of Golf,[1][5] was a Scottish golfer. He was born in St Andrews, Fife, the "home of golf" and location of the St Andrews Links, and died there as well. Young Tom Morris (died 1875), also a golfer, was his son.
^ ab"Old Tom 200-Celebrating the Grand Old Man of Golf". St Andrews Links. Retrieved 17 May 2021.
^"Old Tom Morris (1821-1908)". National Records of Scotland. Retrieved 8 November 2020.
^ abc"Old Tom Morris and Young Tom Morris". National Records of Scotland. Retrieved 14 November 2020.
^"Tom Morris Sr". The Open. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
^"Old Tom at 200 / A Life and Legacy". R&A Championships. 16 June 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
Thomas Mitchell Morris (16 June 1821 – 24 May 1908), otherwise known as OldTomMorris, and The Grand Old Man of Golf, was a Scottish golfer. He was born...
The Old Course was redesigned by OldTomMorris and Allan Robertson OldTomMorris (16 June 1821 – 24 May 1908) designed or remodelled about 75 golf courses...
Thomas Morris (20 April 1851 – 25 December 1875), known as TomMorris Junior, Young TomMorris and also Tommy Morris, was a Scottish professional golfer...
The OldTomMorris Award is the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America's most prestigious honor. It is presented each year to an individual...
TomMorris may refer to: OldTomMorris (1821–1908), early golf champion Young TomMorris (1851–1875), son of the above, also a golf champion Tom Morris...
Park, Sr. went on to win two more tournaments, and OldTomMorris three more, before Young TomMorris won three consecutive titles between 1868 and 1870...
members of the club have won The Open Championship, including OldTomMorris and Young TomMorris who both won the title on four occasions each. In total 11...
contributions to its design were made by Daw Anderson in the 1850s and OldTomMorris (1865–1908), who designed the 1st and 18th holes. Originally, it was...
times. In 1995, Fazio became the second course architect to receive the OldTomMorris Award—the highest recognition awarded by the Golf Course Superintendents...
Robertson ball carrying his stamp "Allan" is highly prized by collectors. OldTomMorris worked from 1839, when he was 18, as an apprentice in Robertson's shop...
Jones with whom he worked from time to time. Jones received the 1987 OldTomMorris Award from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, GCSAA's...
Prestwick for many years before the club was formally organized in 1851. OldTomMorris was the club's "Keeper of the Green, Ball and Club Maker" from 1851...
Superintendents Association of America awarded Pepper with its highest honor, the OldTomMorris Award, in 2024, for her continuing lifetime commitment to the game of...
Claret Jug dates from 1872, when a new trophy was needed after Young TomMorris had won the original Challenge Belt (presented by Prestwick Golf Club)...
Jim Urbina, Bobby Weed, Rod Whitman, and Abe Wilson. Dye received the OldTomMorris Award in 2003 from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America...
winner. He was a mentor to OldTomMorris who named his son, James Ogilvie Fairlie Morris, after him. Playing on the Old Course at St Andrews, Fairlie...
original links was laid out by OldTomMorris; Alister MacKenzie, who co-designed Augusta National Golf Club, redesigned the Old Course and extended the links...
"Legend" status in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame. He received the 2008 OldTomMorris Award from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, GCSAA's...
inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2004. He was awarded the OldTomMorris Award in 2007, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014, and an honorary...
golfing champion OldTomMorris, played by Peter Mullan, and his complex and bittersweet relationship with his son Tom "Tommy" Morris, Jr.; Lowden was...
cause of environmentally friendly golf courses. Jones received the 2004 OldTomMorris Award from the Golf Course Superintendents Association of America, GCSAA's...
Tommy's Honour, a film celebrating the lives of golf pioneers OldTomMorris and Young TomMorris. The film opened the 2016 Edinburgh International Film Festival...