Stephen Proctor

Young Tom Morris, the son of the legendary pioneer of golf, Tom Morris, was golf’s first superstar. Born  just as the new and inexpensive ‘gutty’ ball was 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.

Stephen Proctor visits us from his home in America, where he has spent the past decade studying the history of golf. Exhaustively researched, his Monarch of the Green is a stirring and evocative biography and demonstrates how, in one dazzling decade, Morris changed the sport forever.