German Silver Claret Jug.

July 8, 1922 Wonder What the British Golf Cup Thinks About by Clare Briggs

This was written in the wake of the 1922 Open Championship, where Walter Hagen became the first American-born golfer to win the British competition. He claimed the cup from Jock Hutchison, a Scottish-born American emigrant who'd won last year.

[ID: A goblet-shaped golden golf trophy with two large handles on each side. Oddly enough, this trophy bears absolutely no resemblance to the Open Championship cup, which is actually a silver claret jug. Over the next eight panels, it does not move. /end] Caption: Well, boys, here I am, back again! My word! Just imagine, I only had a few days to see my old friends again.

Caption: Jock took me over and this here Walter Hagen brings me right back again. Haw haw haw, rawther good, rawther good!

Caption: I'm jolly fond of America and all that, y'know, but my word, don't you think it's a bit stiffish?

Caption: Really now, I had 'opes that I might remain in my native country for a year, anyway. It is no more than might be expected, y'know.

Caption: But here I am, back again. They tell me this Hagen chap is American bred and born. I trust it will make no difference in my treatment.

Caption: This American is jolly apt to use me as a tobacco jar or a vase or a marmalade dish, what-o?

Caption: Fact is, I'm very fond of America, really! It's a devilish int'resting spot and much may be said in its favor.

Caption: Fahncy! Back in America again! Haw haw haw, rawther good, rawther good.

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Trick or treat! 🎃

Happy Halloween! Here’s a Victorian claret jug shaped like an alligator.

German Silver Claret Jug

On 20th April 1851 Tom Morris Jnr was born in St Andrews.

Being born in St Andrews to Tom Morris senior, Junior ended up with the tag “Young Tom” and his father “Old Tom” both were great golfers when the sport was just taking off, Young Tom won 4 Open Championships and would undoubtedly have won more if it wasn’t for his untimely and tragic death at the age of just 24.

Morris’ introduction to golf came over the Prestwick Golf Links, where his father was the greenskeeper. When he was 13, Young Tom beat Old Tom in a match for the first time - his father was the reigning Open champion, so that was a pretty big achievement.

Young Tom played in the Open for the first time in 1865, when he was just 14 years old and won became Open Champion at just 17 in 1868, retaining the title in 1869 and winning again in 1870. At this time the golfers were playing for the Championship belt and the rules stated three straight wins and you got to keep the belt, it left the tournament organizers with a problem: They no longer had anything to present to the winner.

There was no tournament in 1871 (largely because there was no “trophy” to present), but by 1872 the now-famous “Claret Jug” was ready, and Young Tom Morris won that trophy, too, in its first year.

Tommy also recorded the first hole-in-one in the history of professional golf in the first round of the 1869 Open Championship at Prestwick, acing the 166 yard Station Hole.

Three years later, Morris was playing an exhibition match when he received word that his pregnant wife, Margaret, had gone into a difficult labour. Only two holes remained in the match; Old Tom and Young Tom finished the match, winning, and hurried home by ship across the Firth of Forth and up the coast, but when Young Tom got there both his wife and newborn baby were dead. Young Tom was broken-hearted. Not quite four months later, on Christmas Day, he too died, they say of a broken heart but he had played a match three weeks previous in appalling conditions and on his death it was discovered he had a bleed in his lungs so his love of the game and Scotland's harsh weather may have weakened him.

Who knows how many more titles he would have won, his father remains the oldest Open winner at 46 years old.

Young Tom Morris was outlived by Old Tom by more than 30 years. He is buried beside his wife and son in the Cathedral Burial Ground at St. Andrews, a memorial to him is beside his grave as seen in the pic.

Loetz Jugendstil Claret Jug, Circa 1899, Czech Republic

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Claret jug made in 1903 (from Roman Kosarev)

A VICTORIAN SILVER-MOUNTED SEAL CLARET JUG, ALEXANDER CRICHTON, LONDON, 1881,

THE DESIGN REGISTERD BY HENRY LEWIS, 172 NEW BOND STREET

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Princess Anne and Sir Tim Laurence posing for a photo with the Claret Jug on the 1st tee ahead of The 150th Open at St Andrews Old Course in Scotland on 13 July 2022

BACCARAT GLASS CLARET JUG by SILVERSMITH, Eugene Doutre - Roussel, circa 1890 - PARIS

Art Nouveau claret jug from 1903 by WMF, Germany.

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therandagolf: @NiallHoran has picked his winner for The 150th Open 🏆

Who do you think will lift The Claret Jug tomorrow?

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