He won the U.S. Open in 1913 and was the first non-Briton elected Captain of the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews.

The Ouimet family grew up relatively poor and were near the bottom of the economic ladder, which was hardly the position of any American golfer at the time.

Amateur at the Garden City Golf Club in Long Island, New York, in early September, losing in the quarterfinals to the eventual champion, Jerome Travers.

Soon after, he was asked personally by the president of the United States Golf Association, Robert Watson, if he would play in the national professional championship, the 1913 U.S. Open, which had been postponed to mid-September from its original June dates to allow for the participation of British golfers Harry Vardon and Ted Ray, both of Jersey.

After 72 holes of regulation play ended in a three-way tie, Ouimet, Vardon, and Ray engaged in an 18-hole playoff the next day in rainy conditions.

[6] His victory was widely hailed as a stunning upset over the strongly favored British, who were regarded as the top two golfers in the world.

Ten years after his 1913 victory, the number of American players had tripled and many new courses had been built, including numerous public ones.

In 1963, WGBH-TV, Boston's public television station, aired an interview with Ouimet at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts, to mark the 50th anniversary of his win at the 1913 U.S. Open.

Ouimet never turned professional;[1] he wished to remain an amateur for his whole career, as he decided before his U.S. Open success that he wanted to work in the world of business.

Its reasoning was that he was using his celebrity status to aid his own sporting goods business and was therefore making a living from golf.

Two other aspects of Ouimet's golf career are important: He used the overlapping grip to hold the club and was among the first top players to use this method.

Past winners include Arnold Palmer (1997), Peter Jacobsen (2006), Jack Nicklaus (2007), and Annika Sörenstam (2010) and in 2021 the Ouimet Fund honors broadcaster Jim Nantz.

[10] In 1988 a portrait of Ouimet appeared on a commemorative 25-cent United States Postal Service postage stamp in his honor.

Shortly afterward, Frost was tapped by Walt Disney Studios to write a motion picture adaptation.

The film starred Shia LaBeouf as Ouimet and was directed by Bill Paxton and produced by Larry Brezner.

A statue of Ouimet and Lowery based on the photograph stands in Brookline, Massachusetts, and at the World Golf Hall of Fame in St. Augustine, Florida.

A street is named after Ouimet in Greenside, Johannesburg, South Africa, close to the Parkview Golf Course.

Within ten years of his U.S. Open victory, Ouimet had started to work as a banker and eventually a stock broker, which had always been his intention.

M = Medalist LA = Low amateur NYF = Tournament not yet founded NT = No tournament WD = Withdrew "T" indicates a tie for a place DNQ = Did not qualify for match play portion R256, R128, R64, R32, R16, QF, SF = Round in which player lost in match play Amateur