By GARY D'AMATO Chaska, Minn. -- Make room, Francis Ouimet and Jack Fleck, for another myth-busting, giant-killing, long-shot dream come true.
Thus a "new biopic" such as Disney's The Greatest Game Ever Played, which is as much about class struggle as about sports action. In The Greatest Game, the first hour is devoted to setting up ugly class dividers between Francis Ouimet (Shia LeBeouf), an American amateur player from the wrong side of the tracks, and the snooty country club types who dismiss him from competition because he had been a caddy. The scene is the 1913 US Open, played at Brookline, Massachusetts, in which Ouimet (the "t" is pronounced) bested two highly regarded Brits, including Harry Vardon (Stephen Dillane), six-time winner of The Open (British, not US) and still, though he died in 1937, widely considered Britain's greatest-ever golfer.
By GARY D'AMATO Chaska, Minn. -- Make room, Francis Ouimet and Jack Fleck, for another myth-busting, giant-killing, long-shot dream come true.
The list of champions at Beverly Country Club in Chicago reads like a Who's Who of Golf. Chick Evans (1910), Arnold Palmer (1963) and Jack Nicklaus (1967) triumphed in the Western Open at Beverly. Francis Ouimet is famous for his 1913 U.S. Open victory over European heavyweights Ted Ray and Harry Vardon. But Ouimet also prevailed in the 1931 U.S. Amateur held at Beverly.
OPENING THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED The golf match in the title refers to the 1913 U.S. Open, when Francis Ouimet (Shia LeBeouf), an amateur from the working class, defeated reigning champion Harry Vardon (Stephen Dillane), proving that golf is not merely a sport for aristocrats and that you can accomplish anything when you believe in yourself and work your butt off. Rated PG. 115 minutes. UA DeVargas, Santa Fe.
Sept. 20 - Twenty-year-old amateur Francis Ouimet beats Britain's Harry Vardon and Ted Ray in an 18-hole playoff to win the U.S. Open.
At some of the largest and most influential Christian churches in the country, the lights dim and congregants watch a sneak preview of a new movie - about golf. Walt Disney is marketing "The Greatest Game Ever Played" to faith- based groups, even though the film, about Francis Ouimet's improbable win in the 1913 U.S. Open, isn't overtly religious.
The last time Tiger Woods took the tee at Augusta National with his adored "Pops" gravely ill, he simply authored the most sport- defining watershed major victory since caddie Francis Ouimet fashioned the transatlantic takedown, otherwise known as the 1913 U.S. Open. In 1997, a 21-year-old Woods showed up at the Masters just two weeks after his father had a heart attack and a pair of emergency open heart surgeries. Father Earl, ever the Green Beret, wasn't about to miss his boy's first major as a professional.
LOS ANGELES - At some of the largest and most influential Christian churches in the country, the lights dim and congregants watch a sneak preview of a new movie - about golf. The Walt Disney Co. is marketing "The Greatest Game Ever Played" to faith-based groups even though the film, about Francis Ouimet's improbable win in the 1913 U.S. Open, isn't overtly religious.
Opening today THE GREATEST GAME EVER PLAYED" -- A golf drama -- and a story of class -- based on the true story of the 1913 U.S. Open, where 20- year-old Francis Ouimet faced off against reigning champion Harry Vardon. With Shia LaBeouf, Stephen Dillane, Peyton List, Elias Koteas and Josh Flitter. Directed by Bill Paxton. (PG, for some brief mild language.)
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