Old Tom Morris

Old Tom Morris, born Thomas Mitchell Morris on 16 June 1821 and known as the Grand Old Man of Golf, was a Scottish golfer, clubmaker, greenkeeper and course designer from St Andrews, where he also died on 24 May 1908. He learned the game as a boy and was apprenticed at fourteen to Allan Robertson, then moved to Prestwick in 1851, where he laid out the course and helped start The Open Championship in 1860. He won that event four times, in 1861, 1862, 1864 and 1867, and remains its oldest winner at 46. In 1864 he returned to St Andrews as keeper of the green, a post he held for 39 years. His son, Young Tom Morris, who died in 1875, was also a champion golfer.