The gutta percha balls once belonged to golfing legend Old Tom Morris, who won the Open four times in the 1860s.

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Askernish Golf Club plays a course said to have been originally designed by four-times Open championship winner Old Tom Morris in 1892.

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The plan to return Askernish in South Uist to Old Tom Morris's design of 1892 follows a visit by experts to the Western Isles last December.

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You may well have read about this, but there, among the machair grass and sand dunes, they are recreating a golf course first designed by the father of golf, Old Tom Morris.

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Andrews, which calls itself "the home of golf, " has lent several items to the exhibit, such as Sir George Reid's portrait of "Old Tom Morris, " who won four British Opens in the 1860s and also designed several significant courses.

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Old Tom won the Open championship four times - a feat matched by his son Young Tom Morris.

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