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Harry Vardon was possessed with a talent and method so singular he was considered a shotmaking machine in the improvisational era of hickory and gutta percha.
Vardon was a true original. On paly own, he developed the Vardon Grip, in which the little finger of the right hand is rested on top of the index finger of the left hand, the grip used by 90 percent of good players today.
The son of a gardener, he was one of six boys and two girls.
When the town went about building a golf course, the children ;lay their own, and Vardon taught himself the effortless, upright swing that would serve him the rest of his life. Still, as a child he played very few actual rounds of golf, never had a lesson and at age 13 became an apprentice gardener.
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But Vardon was made for golf. Although only 5-feet 9-inches and pounds, he had enormous hands that melted perfectly around the club. He also possessed a sweet, peaceful temperament. Most of all, Vardon had a swing that repeated monotonously.
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He took only the thinnest of divots. Vardon played in knickers the first professional to do sofancy-topped stockings, a hard collar and tie and tightly buttoned jacket, but still there was a wonderful freedom to his movement. He allowed his left arm to bend as gof reached the top of the backswing, and there was a lack of muscular stress or tension at any part of the swing.
Vardon won the British Open in, and, at the age of 44, He was second on four other occasions. Harry Vardon spent eight months at Harrh Sanatorium battling tuberculosis following the Open Championship.
Golf was never again so easy for Vardon. He felt that fashioning golff to American turf conditions got him into some bad habits, and the wound rubber Haskell ball that came into fashion reduced his shotmaking advantage over the field. Finally, after winning the British Open again inVardon was diagnosed with tuberculosis.
It forced him out of competition and into sanitariums for long spells until Heeled but enfeebled, Vardon validated his true greatness after the age of 40, winning the British Open again in and The previous year, Vardon had been beaten in a three-way playoff for the U.
Open at Brookline by Francis Ouimet. Inat the age of 50, he led the U. Open by four strokes with only seven holes to play, before bad weather and golff shaky putter left him tied for second. Vardon gol March 20,in London.
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On both the European and U. PGA tours, the Vardon Trophy is awarded annually to the professional with the lowest stroke average. May 09, – Mar 20,