There is a scene in the movie "The Greatest Game Ever Played" in which the Francis Ouimet character, attending a party of U.S. Amateur contestants at The Country Club, gets dressed down. "Young man, you may have been invited," the former caddie is told, "but don't get the idea that you belong here."
We know how that story ended, with an unlikely U.S. Open victory three years later that jump-started Americans' interest in the game in the 20th century. There may come a day when a former First Tee participant wins the U.S. Open, but the victories, real-life ones, already have begun.
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