Receive the latest news and breaking updates, straight from our newsroom to your inbox. Can you see the resemblance? Hagestad said. The boyhood home of Francis Ouimet, the self-taught former caddie who won the 1913 U.S. Open golf tournament, stand across the street from The Country Club, Tuesday, June 14, 2022, in. The 1887 three-bedroom, 1 bath was the boyhood home of Francis Ouimet, the self-taught former caddie who popped across Clyde Street to win the 1913 event. The original wide-planked wooden floors were in such bad shape that a contractor proposed ripping them out and replacing them. Oh, in a perfect world, Hynes and friends could restore the three-hole course in the backyard that Francis and his older brother, Wilfred, built. I asked Hynes how Ouimets personality had come down to him. He must have crossed it repeatedly during the 1913 U.S. Open. Maybe they were carried by 10-year-old caddie Eddie Lowery when Ouimet beat the celebrated British pros in an upset that spawned a golfing boom in the New World. Since then, hes overseen the restoration of the house to the style of Ouimets era, with the goal of showing it off during the Open. "Francis' bedroom is 275 yards away from the seventeenth green," Fred Waterman, The Country Club historian, said. The houses in that section are mansions, or at least lean that way. Ouimet, who died in 1967, remained a lifelong resident of the Boston area and continued to win golf championships as an amateur for many years after 1913. The fame of Ouimets groundbreaking accomplishment no amateur had ever won the U.S. Open and few golfers from working-class roots had ever played in championships has endured for 109 years, no doubt helped by a popular 2005 book and movie, The Greatest Game Ever Played.. The Hickory Challenge: Playing The Country Clubs 17th hole with Francis Ouimet-era clubs, Is Jon Rahm now chasing Tiger Woods? A Brookline cop manning traffic on Clyde Street, right in front of the Ouimet House, explained that to me. It's also where he woke up in his second-floor bedroom on the morning of Sept. 20, 1913, made the short walk and won the U.S. Open Championship at age 20, against all odds as an amateur of meager means, changing the tide of golf history. June 13, 2022Ouimet House Stands As American Golf Shrine - Nxtbook Media Born in May 1893 to a French-Canadian immigrant father and an Irish mother, Ouimet grew up on Lee Street - directly across from the 17th hole at Brookline Country Club. A journalist for 23 years, Steve has been immersed in club golf for almost as long.