The most requested information on St. Andrews cemetery is the location of the Young Tom Morris Memorial
Young Tom Morris, Winner of 3 consecutive
Open Championships making him the sole possessor of the championship belt, golf's original trophy.
Young Tom then proceeded to win his 4th consecutive Open golf championship 2 years later (the 1871 Open was cancelled) making Tommy's name the first engraved on the infamous Claret jug. Tommy
and Willie Park Sr. are the only two champions to have won the championship belt
as well as the Claret Jug.
Tommy also recorded the first hole-in-one in the history of professional golf in the first round of the 1869 Open Championship at Prestwick, acing the 166 yard Station Hole.
To
learn more about Young Tom Morris or Old Tom Morris for that matter,
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