Francis ouimet and harry vardon biography

2005 film by Bill Paxton

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The Greatest Game Ever Played is a 2005 American biographicalsports film based on the early life of amateur golf champion Francis Ouimet and his surprise winning of the 1913 U.S.

Open. The film was directed by Bill Paxton, and was his last film as a director. Shia LaBeouf plays the role of Ouimet.

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The film's screenplay was adapted by Mark Frost from his 2002 book, The Greatest Game Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf. It was shot in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with the Kanawaki Golf Club,^[2] in Kahnawake, Quebec, the site of the golf sequences.

Plot

Set mainly in 1913, the film is about Francis Ouimet, the first amateur to win the U.S.

Open. Amateur golf in that era was a sport only for the wealthy, and Ouimet came from an Irish and French-Canadian immigrant family that was part of the working class. Ou Harry Vardon - Wikipedia SYN