Word: vardon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
Died. John Henry Taylor, 91, Britain's grand old man of golf and five-time British Open champion, a fierce yet always gentlemanly competitor who with Countrymen Harry Vardon and James Braid dominated the game in the early 1900s and led in the founding of the Professional Golfers' Association of Great Britain; in Northam, Devon...