Word: ouimet
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...Captain Before a hushed audience of a thousand or more attentive golfers, Francis Ouimet stepped soberly up to the first tee of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews, Scotland. It was early for a round: not yet 8 o'clock. But Ouimet was not going to play even once around: all he intended to do was to hit this one ceremonial drive. Scotland's Willie Auchter-lonie, who won the British Open in 1893, teed up the ball. The town clock tolled eight as Ouimet took his stance. Strung out in front...
...Ouimet smacked the ball crisply, 170 yards straight down the fairway, and an antique cannon beside the tee boomed a salute. It was the traditional "driving in" ceremony, performed each year-but not always so well-by the elected Captain of the Royal and Ancient, golf's oldest and holiest shrine. Francis Ouimet, onetime caddy from the wrong side of Boston's tracks, was the first American ever elected captain...
...Gold Piece. Ouimet's drive was retrieved by one of the more flatteringly distant caddies, who pounced on the ball and brought it back for the traditional reward: a gold sovereign (which in recent years has been specially struck by the Royal Mint for the R. & A.). Instead of the sovereign, Ouimet gave the caddy an old $5 gold piece...
Everybody agreed that picking Francis Ouimet (pronounced we met) for this rare honor was a happy choice and a nice gesture. Ouimet has been a name in transatlantic golf ever since the day in 1913 when, as a 20-year-old, he whipped Britain's peerless pair, Harry Vardon (by five strokes) and Ted Ray (by six), in a playoff for the U.S. Open title. Since then, as a player or the non-playing captain of every U.S. Walker Cup team until 1949, Ouimet has won an unequaled place in the hearts of R. & A. members, surpassing even Bobby...
...first time in its 197-year history, the Royal and Ancient Golf Club at St. Andrews, Scotland elected an American to be Club Captain: Francis Ouimet, 57, of Brookline, Mass., onetime captain of America's Walker Cup team, and first amateur to win the U.S. Open (1913). Ouimet will begin his one-year term next week after following through the ritual of "playing into office," i.e., going the 18-hole Old Course and tipping his caddy a pound note...