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 ...
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 ...