This Day in Golf History: December 25

May all Golf History readers have a blessed Christmas! This date in golf history will always be observed primarily as the Christmas Day Young Tom Morris died in 1875 at just age 24 in St. Andrews, Scotland. A four-time winner of the Open Championship by then, four months before he died his wife, Margaret, and newborn son had died while she was giving birth. Young Tom was distraught and is commonly believed to have died of a broken heart but in medical verbiage it was listed as a pulmonary hemorrhage. But Young Tom’s breathing may have been affected by a match he played in poor weather a few weeks earlier, which may have also compounded his deteriorating health.