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A Game of Golf
Francis Ouimet; Richard A. Johnson, intro.; Robert Donovan, pref.; Ben Crenshaw, fwd.
Sportstown Series
Northeastern University Press
University Press of New England
2004 • 300 pp. 35 illus. 5 1/2 x 8 1/2"
Sports History / Memoir
$22.95 Paper, 978-1-55553-600-8
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America's first golf hero reminisces about the game and his career, from his early years, to his upset 1913 U.S. Open victory as an amateur, to his sentimental win at the 1931 U.S. Amateur Championship at the Beverly Country Club in Chicago. Along the way, he gives sage advice about the game.
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Francis Ouimet, who twice won the U.S. Amateur Championship in addition to the U.S. Open, played eight times on the U.S. Walker Cup team. One of the most honored golfers in the history of the game, he was elected an original member of golf's Hall of Fame in 1944, and in 1951 became the first American elected captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews. Richard A. Johnson, editor of the Sportstown Series, is Curator of the Sports Museum of New England. Robert Donovan is Executive Director of the Francis Ouimet Caddie Scholarship Fund. Ben Crenshaw, two-time Masters champion, is one of the most respected golfers of the last half century, known both for his success on the PGA tour and for his deep love of golf history and traditions.
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