twick for eleven years after the first tournament. Both Old and Young Tom Morris dominated it. Only one other family has gotten close to as many wins as the Morris’ and that is Willie Park Sr. and Jr. It was Old Tom Morris and Willie Park Sr. that won every Open prior to the emergence of Young Tom. Both men were much loved figures and were responsible for the standards of sportsmanship that the game is known for today.There was a new era that began in 1890 that gave the game such grates as John Taylor, Harry Vardon and James Braid. Between the three they collected sixteen open titles and thirteen-second place finishes. John Taylor won the first of his five Open titles in 1894. Vardon beat Taylor in a playoff in 1896 to get his first of six titles. James Braid won his first Open Championship in 1901 to join as the third member in the group. Vardon and Taylor did have one advantage over Braid and that was that Braid never crossed the Atlantic and played in the newly formed professional tour in America. At this time the tour in America was beginning to shape up and many of the successful players in America were from Scotland. In fact the early US Open Champions were all Scots born players who, as teachers would produce players that would come and further transform this game.The turn of the century came and with that the First World War almost completely took out golf in Scotland. Many young men who were promising golfers traded their clubs for guns and never made it back to the links after the war. There were only a few that did not let the war stop them from improving their games. In 1910 the professional golfers’ association of Britain was founded in London. (Orgin, 5) One of these men was George Duncan. Duncan won the first post-war Open in 1920. A new wave of golfers came to the Open after the war and they were from America. American greats included Walter Hagen, Gene Sarazen and Bobby Jones who would ad f...
