Vardon was born into a working class family in Jersey, a British outpost off the coast of Normandy in France, and honed his game when the island got its first golf course in 1878. Both Harry and ...

Harry Vardon made $200 after winning the 1900 U.S. Open. And just this week, a golf ball he played to win at Chicago Golf Club was sold for $194,259.20. Yes, there’s inflation and 125 years to ...

If you didn’t know how important Harry Vardon was to the game of golf, the fact that he was one of the first 11 players ever inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1974 should make it clear.

And more contemporarily, Wind, a man hardly given to wild rhetoric, wrote in 1979 that “There has surely never been a better golfer than Harry Vardon.” Still, comparing Vardon to today’s ...

Rory Mcilroy of Northern Ireland finished fourth at the DP World Tour Championship at Jumeirah Golf Estates in Dubai, good enough to claim the Harry Vardon trophy as Europe's best.

The Vardon/Titanic story makes an appearance in two books – Mark Frost’s “The Greatest Game Ever Played” and Audrey Howell’s “Harry Vardon: The Revealing Story of a Champion Golfer.” Howell is married ...

Harry Vardon won his sixth (still the record) and final Open Championship in 1914, at Prestwick. Nine days later, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated by Gavrilo Princip, leading to ...

Vardon was born into a working class family in Jersey, a British outpost off the coast of Normandy in France, and honed his game when the island got its first golf course in 1878. Both Harry and ...

It was in the majestic surroundings of Muirfield that the original gold-plated superstar of golf secured his first major title.