1963 U.S. Open: Ouimet and Boros at Brookline

Published 2022-07-04
50 years after Francis Ouimet's watershed victory at The Country Club, the U.S. Open returned to the venerable Brookline, Mass., venue for the 1963 playing of the championship, and budding legends Julius Boros and Arnold Palmer did not disappoint.

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All Comments (7)
  • @anthonymead4359
    Undemonstrative, reserved, with very little ego - but he was a superb player. His course management every bit as good as Hogan or Snead's. And as you see here in this video his short game was masterful. He was 43 when he won here but it was not the end. Five years later at age 48 he took the USPGA.
  • @arthurford829
    Interesting. These two friends remembering an event 50 years on. Now we’re watching them 60 years on from that day.
  • @MCham52
    Palmer missing that tiny putt on the 17th hole cost him that 2nd Open that he would never have. Hard to believe that after he won in 1960, he would lose playoffs in 1962, 1963, and 1966. One less shot on each of those occasions (such as that missed tiny putt on 17) and Palmer wins FOUR Opens, not just one.
  • @waynevoss4194
    Wonder how these guys would have done with todays clubs!
  • @robnutile4338
    Why does these 25-year-old men look like 70-year-old guys is it just because of the way they dress.