Today is a great day in the world of golf. It is Thursday, Day One of the U.S. Open. This year is a special U.S. Open, played at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts where 20-year old amateur Francis Ouimet won the tournament in 1913. Watch the 2005 movie, The Greatest Game Ever Played, if you want the full story there.

One reason the U.S. Open is beloved is that it always ends on Father’s Day. The winner is usually crying with his father on the 72nd green or pointing to heaven where he believes his father now surely resides…