Armchair Golf Blog · May 25, 2016
Profile of Tommy Armour, The Silver Scot
Part one of two on golf legend Tommy Armour (1896-1968).
Copyright © John Coyne. Used with permission.
TOMMY ARMOUR, NICKNAMED THE SILVER SCOT, is today perhaps best known, if he is remembered at all, as a teaching pro, having written, with Herb Graffis, one of the great instruction books on the game, How to Play Your Best Golf All the Time (1953).
Armour offered little theory that was new or different for golfers, but for one piece of advice. He was among the first pros to advocate aggressive, all-out use of the right hand in generating power. This book when it was first published in '53 sold 400,000 copies in its first year, an impressive number of sales.