Word: morriss
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...following year proved the first of Old Tom Morriss' four Open victories. Old Tom was eventually dethroned by his son, fittingly enough known as Young Tom, who held a death grip on the championship belt until his own abrupt passing at the age of 24 on Christmas day, 1925. For golf purists, the 1861 shindig is revered as the first true British Open since amateurs were no longer barred and the contest was unequivocally declared "open to all the world...