In the Kidd house - a family of weavers turned golfers when the work dried up - Tom Snr instilled a love of golf in his boy. "Kidd sprang from an ancestry connected with the game," reported The ...

The Open of 1873 was staged during the R&A's autumn meeting. It was very much second fiddle.

As St Andrews prepares to host the 150th Open Championship, Tom English tells the story of Tom Kidd, winner of the original Claret Jug.

Tom Kidd, with his waistcoats speckled with all the colours of the rainbow, was probably golf's first showman The Open Championship Venue: St Andrews, Fife, Scotland Dates: Thursday, 14 July ...