This Day in Golf History: December 25

This date in golf history will always be observed primarily as the day Young Tom Morris died in 1875 at just age 24. A four-time winner of the Open Championship by then, four months before he died his wife 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 chat it was listed as a pulmonary hemorrhage.