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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...