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Article: LOCAL GOLF INSIDER; GOLF LEGEND HAD MIAMI VALLEY TIES
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- Dayton Daily News
- Article date:
- May 12, 2002
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Brent Sipe, head golf professional at Moraine Country Club, was
looking through one of the club's old golf registration books
recently when he came across a name that caught his eye like no
other.
Registered as a golfing guest at Moraine on Sept. 14, 1933, was
Francis Ouimet of Brighton, Mass.
The thought of 1913 U.S. Open champion Francis Ouimet playing golf
at Moraine was not far-fetched because Ouimet was a good friend of
Moraine golf professional Alex "Nipper" Campbell, who prepped him for
his shocking U.S. Open triumph when he (Campbell) was pro at The
Country Club in Brookline.
If there were any question as to whether this was the Francis
Ouimet, a check of the Daily News microfilm ...