Francis And Eddie

Download or read book Francis and Eddie written by Brad Herzog and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1913 the world's finest golfers gathered at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, to compete in golf's national championship, the U.S. Open. Joining them was a little-known amateur, twenty-year-old Francis Ouimet, who lived across the street from the course and had taught himself to play by sneaking onto the fairways with the only golf club he owned. He competed against his idols in front of a crowd that grew from a handful of spectators to a horde of thousands as he and his four-foot-tall caddie, ten-year-old Eddie Lowery, attempted to pull off the impossible. Along the way, they forged a lifelong friendship"--From publisher description.