Word: vardon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most indignant comment came from England, where all U. S. golf innovations are disgusting to golfers who abide by the regulations of the staid St. Andrews club. Said Sandy Herd: "Farcical!" Charles Whitcombe: "Absurd!" James Braid: "The walls would crumble!" Harry Vardon: "The very idea makes me angry...
...Brookline, Mass, is the country club where, in 1913, when he was 20, Francis Ouimet tied famed Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in his first U. S. Open championship, then beat them both in a momentous playoff. Francis Ouimet does a lot of his golfing at the Brookline club but it was for another momentous match against British golfers that he was there again last week. As U. S. Amateur Champion he had been made captain of the U. S. Walker Cup Team...
...Francis thought he would have no chance against Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, but he entered, and played so well that he finished in a tie with those two great Englishmen. ... I will never forget the playoff...
...house faces the [Brookline] country club's 17th fairway. I was waiting for them to come up to that tee and when they did Francis told me he was two strokes up on Vardon and that Ray was far behind him. . . . Francis picked up another stroke on the 18th for a 72, Vardon took a 77 and Ray a 78. Ever since that day the 17th has been called 'The Vardon' for that was the hole that gave Francis his first championship...
...Mother Ouimet exaggerates. Not the whole hole, but a sandtrap on it into which Vardon went is called "The Vardon...