America's love affair with the Silver Scot

Posted by ancient mariner alx, canada (ex edinburgh)

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 14:28:43 GMT

a superb article indeed. tommy armour #111 may not be quite as good a golfer in to-day's game, although, at the very least, keeps the name and reputation high.
i currently wonder if newish, young pro ryan armour is related and will he come to the fore?

Posted by Golfan, Houston, TX

Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:57:33 GMT

Thank you for this remarkable article on Tommy Armour. Your research added so much to the story of a man and not just a champion golfer. As a special consultant to the World Golf Hall of Fame in St. Augustine, FL, I am alert and awake (worldwide through the web) to compelling stories of the members of the Hall of Fame. This one has been sent to our curator/researcher. All credit to The Scotsman and the writer, Tom English. The best of golf to you....

Posted by Dekester, Canada's westcoast

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:19:13 GMT

Well said #1.

Living out here in the Vancouver area, and often visiting California. I never cease to be impressed by the influence of the Scots.

Our largest river is named after a Scot, one of our universities too.

I have met Scots pros in Las Vegas, Palm Springs and until fairly recently (now deceased)our most exclusive private club here, had a head pro, that I think emigrated in the forties.

Alas they were all in their 70's and eighties when I met them, and all were held in high esteem in the local communities.

What has happened? Who really knows, most likely the welfare state that Scotland had become was apart of it. Now Scotland appears to be doing very well
and life may just be too easy.

Few English have had the same impact.

Cheers.

Posted by The Big Riddie, West of the Almond

Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:39:59 GMT

Well if nobody else is going to say it - a great peice of journalism. Where are the Tommy Armour's now? And we used to produce quite a few; men who went out into the world and made it their own. Talented men who never forgot their Scottishness (a clumsy word I admit), never looked back on their homeland only to dismiss it. Scotland is too small for all of us but that is only a fault of geology. The greater we are the more the need to remember where it came from, what made it. Once again a great article in the Sunday papers' style.