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Their most obvious connection, of course, is what they have done for the game of golf. In the American history of the sport, there have been four popular bookmarks: Francis Ouimet, the 20-year-old amateur who defeated British greats Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in a playoff for the 1913 U.S. Open in Brookline, Massachusetts; Bobby Jones, whose 1930 Grand Slam earned him a ticker-tape parade in New York City; Palmer, who teamed with television to bring golf millions of new fans; and Woods, whose galleries are not only larger than anyone else's but considerably younger...
...title. Because it involved the British Open champion Faldo, thoughts of Brookline's previous nationals were unavoidable. In 1963 Arnold Palmer held the British title when he lost a play-off to Julius Boros. So did Englishman Ted Ray in 1913, when he bowed to the Boston amateur Francis Ouimet. This was America's historic breakthrough in golf...
Hydro-Quebec said the river conditions resulted from the unusually heavy September rains in the region, and that the volume of river flow had been reduced by the construction of its dam. "Our position," said Hydro-Quebec Spokesman Jean-Guy Ouimet, "is that we are spilling less water than nature would...
...next morning Ouimet, accompanied by his ten-year-old urchin of a caddie, Eddie Lowery, astounded the golf world by matching the best ball of Vardon and Ray. Ouimet shot a 72, birdieing the 17th once again to take a three-stroke lead over Vardon. Vardon finished with a 77 and Ray shot a 79. After the monumental victory, which has since been christened "the shot heard round the world," Ouimet went out and celebrated by downing a drink called a "horse's neck," a concoction of lemon juice and ginger...
...Ouimet's doughty caddie Lowery, he went on to make millions as a San Francisco auto dealer and sponsored young golfers like Ken Venturi, the 1964 Open winner...