01625cam a2200265 4500 545749446 TxAuBib 130509s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780984991921 hc. 0984991921 hc. (OCoLC)6974 YDXCP YDXCP BTCTA TxAuBib Herzog, Brad. Francis and Eddie : the true story of America's underdogs / written by Brad Herzog ; illustrated by Zachary Pullen. 1st ed. Pacific Grove, Calif : Why Not Books, 2013. 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm. "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. Ouimet, Francis Juvenile literature. Lowery, Eddie Juvenile literature. U.S. Open (Golf tournament) Juvenile literature. Golfers Biography United States. Golf Juvenile literature History. Pullen, Zachary.