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...Country Club would have remained an innocuous watering ground for the rich if not for one cataclysmic event. In 1913, a 21-year-old former caddie at The Country Club, Francis Ouimet, who lived in Brookline, won the U.S. Open there. Ouimet's victory was a watershed in the history of American golf, because he beat the two leading British professionals of the era, Harry Vardon...
Vardon and Ray, who were considered invincible, had been touring the States proselytizing the game, sponsored by The Times of London. Ouimet, who had caddied at TCC since he was 11, forced a playoff, hitting a jigger onto number 17 and making a must birdie putt...
Throughout the final day of play Green seemed jovial and even a little cocky as he hobnobbed with his caddy and stroked his putts confidently. His behavior brings to mind Bernard Darwin's depiction of Francis Ouimet winning the Open from British rivals Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in 1913. Ouimet's victory was a watershed in the history of the U.S. Open for it signaled the emergence of American golfers who were of the same caliber as their British counterparts...
...recapture the brilliance of that June Sunday in 1960 when he won his lone Open there by making up seven shots to pass 14 other players Anyone who saw Palmer in his moment of glory remembers that final evanescent round just as an earlier generation remembers Francis Ouimet's final round. From now on, the courageous final round of Hubert Green will be remembered...
...course seemed to suit his careful, never long, rarely short style. Brookline was chosen because it was the place where Francis Ouimet, an unheralded 20-year-old ex-caddy, stunned the golfing world 50 years ago by beating the great Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, thus ending forever Britain's domination of the game. It is a dainty, tidy course, only 6,870 yds. long, but for the Open the U.S. Golf Association turned it into something resembling the South Dakota Badlands...