Golf Channel

Brookline, 1913: Features detailing Ouimet’s historic win and it’s ever-lasting impact

On Sept. 20, 2013, GolfChannel.com showcased a series of features looking back on the 100-year anniversary of Francis Ouimet’s historic U.S. Open triumph. The victory was monumental in how it forever ...
Golf Channel

Brookline, 1913: The search for Francis Ouimet

(Editor’s note: This story is part of a series that ran in 2013 on GolfChannel.com, celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Francis Ouimet’s U.S. Open victory.) BOSTON – You don’t stumble across ...
The New Yorker

Ouimet and the Amateur—Looking at Sean Burke

WHEN Francis Ouimet won the Amateur Championship last year, there was a general disposition on the part of newspaper writers to regard it as a fine stroke of luck for an elderly gentleman who ...
The New Yorker

The Amateur Turns Amateur—Trouble at Beverly — the Grand Old Man — Fives and Threes

AN event a good deal more important than the making of a new champion took place at the Beverly Golf Club. For the first time in many years a National Amateur Championship was held in which the ...
Tulsa World

Century later, Francis Ouimet's victory in 1913 U.S. Open still resonates

CUTLINES - BROOKLINE, Mass. - At the entrance to the Putterham Meadows golf course stands a statue of 1913 U.S. Open champion Francis Ouimet. Also in bronze, dwarfed by the bag he carries, is the ...
Detroit Free Press

Cathedral Prep graduate Jeff Hamley to caddie for PGA Tour pro Andrew Novak in U.S. Open

It was inevitable that Jeff Hamley would reference Francis Ouimet and Eddie Lowery during his comments. Hamley, a 2002 Cathedral Prep graduate, will caddie for Raleigh, North Carolina, native Andrew ...
The New Yorker

Blind Scramble—the Canadian Champion—Young Charles Seaver

EVER since the sectional qualifying plan gave thousands of golfers, who would never otherwise have dreamed of playing for it, a chance at the championship, the National Amateur has been an affair very ...