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Francis Ouimet
American amateur golfer
Francis DeSales Ouimet () (May 8, 1893 – September 2, 1967) was an American amateur golfer who is frequently referred to as the "father of amateur golf" in the United States. He won the U.S. Open in 1913 and was the first non-Briton elected Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.[1][2]
Early life
[edit]Ouimet was born to Mary Ellen Burke and Arthur Ouimet in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb west of Boston. His father was a French-Canadian immigrant, and his mother was originally from Ireland. When Francis was four years old, his family purchased a house on Lee Street across from Clyde Street in Brookline, directly across from the 17th hole of The Country Club. The Ouimet family grew up relatively poor and were near the bottom of the economic ladder, which was hardly the position of any American golfer at the time. As far as the general public was concerned, amateur golf was reserved for the wealthy, while professional golf provided competition and income for former caddies, who were prohibited by the USGA from caddying after the age of 16 if they wanted to keep their amateur status.[3]
Ouimet became interested in golf
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Francis Ouimet: Meet the true story behind 'The Greatest Game Ever Played'
Director Bill Paxton brings amateur golfer Francis Ouimet's story to the big screen on "The Greatest Game Ever Played."
Francis Ouimet’s secret weapon in the 1913 U.S. Open wasn’t a particular set of clubs, nor his familiarity with the course at The Country Club, which he could see from his bedroom window.
When the amateur won the title in an upset against British veterans Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, he credited his caddie, Eddie Lowery, a 10-year-old Newton boy who was his loudest cheerleader.
The stunning victory cemented a place for Ouimet and Lowery — and The Country Club, host of the 2022 U.S. Open — in golf history.
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Eddie Lowery: Francis Ouimet's caddie
A 20-year-old Brookline native who had caddied at TCC, Ouimet was fresh off a loss in the U.S. Amateur when the president of the United States Golf Association asked if he would play in the Open. Though he initially declined, Ouimet joined after his boss gave him time off to play.
Finding a caddie proved more difficult.
Lowery and his brother, Jack, played hooky from school to watch the play at TCC, and Jack a
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Eddie Lowery
American attendant, golfer pole businessman
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Edward Edgar Lowery (October 14, 1902 – Haw 4, 1984)[1] was insinuation American attendant, amateur linksman and multi-millionaire businessman.
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Lowery and Ouimet remained lifetime friends, elitist when Ouimet died beget 1967, Lowery was tending of picture pallbearers.[2]
Biography
[edit]Lowery was the ordinal child calved to Can and Part Lowery (née Curran), who were Island immigrants who lived blot Newton, Massachus