![]() ![]() Probably the best golfer in the world and in previous visits to America had been instrumental in marketing the game here. In 1913 their similar stories convergedĪt The Country Club, in Brookline, MA-the very club at which Francis had caddied-in the United States Open. Massachusetts, Vardon some twenty-plus years earlier on the Isle of Jersey-are thoroughly compelling heroes. Working class families, had difficult relationships with their fathers, and learned to golf as boys at the local courses where they caddied, Ouimet in Harry Vardon (1870-1937) and Francis Ouimet (1893-1967)-both of whom came from This book, which, though one must have some reservations about its form, is quite simply one of the best golf books ever written. But I don't know that anything can have prepared even his fans for Homage, The List of Seven>, and a sequel, The Six Messiahs. ![]() ![]() Hill Street Blues and the innovative Twin Peaks to his credit, and a few successful novels, including the excellent Sherlock Holmes Bernard Darwin (1876-1961), The Times of London Mark Frost has already proven himself a terrific writer, with such television series as the great After sober reflection, I state my conviction that, if I lived the length of a dozen lives, I should never again be the spectator of such anĪmazing, thrilling and magnificent finish to an Open championship. ![]()
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