A century ago in the worlds finest golfers gathered at The Country Club in Brookline Massachusetts to compete in golfs national championship the US Open Joining them was a little-known amateur -year-old Francis Ouimet who lived across the street from the course and taught himself to play by sneaking onto the fairways with the only golf club he owned His caddie Ten-year-old Eddie Lowery who stood only four feet tall Together against their idols and in front of a crowd that grew from a handful of spectators to a horde of thousands they attempted to pull off the impossible Along the way they forged a lifelong friendship In FRANCIS AND EDDIE award-winning author Brad Herzog and award-winning illustrator Zachary Pullen celebrate golfs most inspiring underdog story What Seabiscuit is to the sport of kings Francis and Eddie are to the gentlemans game.
