How did Francis Ouimet make money?

Francis DeSales Ouimet was an American amateur golfer who is frequently referred to as the “father of amateur golf” in the United States.

Ouimet 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.

Ouimet was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974.

In 1913, Ouimet won his first significant title at age 20, the Massachusetts Amateur, an event he won five more times.

Ouimet participated in the U.S. 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.

In 1916, the USGA, in one of the most controversial decisions in their history, stripped Ouimet of his amateur status, with the reasoning that Ouimet was using his celebrity to aid his own sporting goods business and was therefore making a living from golf.

However, the dispute was resolved and Ouimet won the US Open in 1913.

How did Francis Ouimet make money?

Ouimet aspired to become a businessman to elevate himself into the middle class.

At the time, the life of a professional golfer did not offer an avenue to reach that goal and 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.

Ouimet culminated his business career as a customer’s financial advisor at Brown Brothers Harriman.