Scott Murray is a British freelance journalist specialising in sport and working predominantly for

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Books

Murray is the author of two sports-related books. He is the co-author, with

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, of '' The Phantom of the Open'', the biography of Maurice Flitcroft, the so-called world's worst golfer. The book was published by

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in 2011 and turned into a film of the same name starring Sir

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as Flitcroft. His second book, ''The Title: The Story of the First Division'' was published by Bloomsbury Sport in 2017.

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