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Francis DeSales Ouimet (/ w iː ˈ m ɛ t /) (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 .
The Greatest Game Ever Played is a 2005 American biographical sports film based on the early life of amateur golf champion Francis Ouimet and his surprise winning of the 1913 U.S. Open. The film was directed by Bill Paxton , and was his last film as a director.
She was born Sarah Armstrong in southern Ohio in 1825. Her family later settled in Missouri in 1839 where her father died in 1842. She became a hired girl for John B. Townsend. She married Allen Montgomery and joined the Stephens-Townsend-Murphy Party which traveled to California over what was to become known as Donner Pass in 1844.
Ouimet's victory was the first of eight wins by amateurs at the U.S. Open; Bobby Jones won four and the last was Johnny Goodman in 1933, 92 years ago. The U.S. Open returned to the course for the 50th and 75th anniversaries in 1963 and 1988 , and the U.S. Amateur was held at The Country Club on the centennial anniversary in 2013; it also hosted ...
Local amateur Francis Ouimet won the 1913 U.S. Open. Now, Michael Thorbjornsen is attempting the same feat.
Hairspray actress Sarah Francis Jones has revealed that she went into labour while attending Beyoncé’s concert.. In a video shared to Jones and her husband, actor Marcel Spears, Instagram ...
In 1913, accompanied by Ted Ray, Vardon played in 45 exhibition matches winning 36 of them, and in 1920 at age 50, again accompanied by Ray, he played from July to the beginning of November in nearly 100 exhibition/challenge matches against the likes of Walter Hagen, Jim Barnes, Francis Ouimet and Bobby Jones. [7] [self-published source]
There was the scandal, the indictment, the trial and last year's conviction of Larry Ray, the dad who moved into his daughter's dorm at Sarah Lawrence College in 2010 and created a multi-state ...