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Each year in April when the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, GA. rolls around with all the great golfers coming in to make their play to win the coveted green jacket, it makes me want to re watch the golf movie, "The Greatest Game Ever Played.
This movie is based on the 2002, Mark Frost biographical account of Francis Ouimet's 1913 U.S. Open victory titled, "The Greatest Game Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf."
The story is about a young caddy Francis Ouimet who decides that he is going to try out to play as an amateur in the 1913 US Golf open near Boston, Massachusetts. "When Francis was four years old, his family purchased a house on Clyde Street in Brookline, directly across from the 17th hole of The Country Club. The Ouimet family grew up relatively poor and were near the bottom of the economic ladder, which was hardly the position of any American golfer at the time." (Sourced From Wikipedia) . He is pictured above in the movie with his unlikely 10 year old caddy, the spunky Eddie Lowery. True story.
Well, I will let you watch the movie to see what happens, but I included a picture with Francis and his two top British professional golfer competitors, Harry Vardon and Ted Ray. These were all excellent golfers. Francis Ouimet remained an amateur and become a very successful businessman.
So what does this have to do with stocks??
Well it turns out there was formed by a group of people a Francis Ouimet Caddy Scholarship Fund.
Well there was this young caddy who applied for this scholarship and was awarded it to study at Boston College. His name was Peter Lynch.
I was for some reason rereading Peter Lynch's "One Up On Wall Street" last night, and this information jumped off the page at me in stunning fashion. It was as if somebody had led me there to read it.
His story was similar to story of Francis Ouimet, except for instead of winning the US Open his success was that be became the greatest mutual fund manager of all time, getting a job through his caddying with the Fidelity company in Boston and later running the Fidelity Magellan Fund from 1977-1990.
The Fidelity Magellan Fund had a 2510% gain during his tenure as manager. That is the equivalent of golfing a 62 on each day of the golf tournament!! Talk about the butterfly effect!
So if you want to know what stocks might fit Peter Lynch's criteria today to invest in, you can go to WWW.NASDAQ.com and when you look up the symbol of a stock and enter it in, they have in the left-hand column a link called "Guru Analysis". At the top of the list is Peter Lynch's rating based on his criteria. Here are some examples of the stocks screened from Guru Analysis he would like right now:
91% Qualcomm Inc. (symbol QCOM, $67.15)
91% Apple Inc. (symbol AAPL, $124.75)
91% Honeywell International (symbol HON, $101.70)
91% Wells Fargo & Company (symbol WFC, $54.05)
91% Kansas City Southern (symbol KSU, $104.49)
91% US Bancorp (symbol USB, $42.44)
87% The Middleby Corp. (symbol MIDD, $102.60)
72% Constellation Brands (symbol STZ, $115.98)
72% Icon PLC (symbol ICLR, $68.98)
So you can see now how Golf and Caddying have had a direct effect on the history of Wall Street investing. (P.S. little Eddie Lowery, the 10 year old caddy, went on to become a multi-millionaire businessman himself, so success all around.)
I would also recommend that you read Peter Lynch's books, "One Up on Wall Street" and also "Beating the Street".
He will tell you that you can be as good at investing as he is if you focus on what you know.
Have a great investment week,
Freewilly
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This movie is based on the 2002, Mark Frost biographical account of Francis Ouimet's 1913 U.S. Open victory titled, "The Greatest Game Ever Played: Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, and the Birth of Modern Golf."
The story is about a young caddy Francis Ouimet who decides that he is going to try out to play as an amateur in the 1913 US Golf open near Boston, Massachusetts. "When Francis was four years old, his family purchased a house on Clyde Street in Brookline, directly across from the 17th hole of The Country Club. The Ouimet family grew up relatively poor and were near the bottom of the economic ladder, which was hardly the position of any American golfer at the time." (Sourced From Wikipedia) . He is pictured above in the movie with his unlikely 10 year old caddy, the spunky Eddie Lowery. True story.
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| Harry Vardon, Francis Ouimet, Ted Ray |
So what does this have to do with stocks??
Well it turns out there was formed by a group of people a Francis Ouimet Caddy Scholarship Fund.
Well there was this young caddy who applied for this scholarship and was awarded it to study at Boston College. His name was Peter Lynch.
His story was similar to story of Francis Ouimet, except for instead of winning the US Open his success was that be became the greatest mutual fund manager of all time, getting a job through his caddying with the Fidelity company in Boston and later running the Fidelity Magellan Fund from 1977-1990.
The Fidelity Magellan Fund had a 2510% gain during his tenure as manager. That is the equivalent of golfing a 62 on each day of the golf tournament!! Talk about the butterfly effect!
So if you want to know what stocks might fit Peter Lynch's criteria today to invest in, you can go to WWW.NASDAQ.com and when you look up the symbol of a stock and enter it in, they have in the left-hand column a link called "Guru Analysis". At the top of the list is Peter Lynch's rating based on his criteria. Here are some examples of the stocks screened from Guru Analysis he would like right now:
91% Qualcomm Inc. (symbol QCOM, $67.15)
91% Apple Inc. (symbol AAPL, $124.75)
91% Honeywell International (symbol HON, $101.70)
91% Wells Fargo & Company (symbol WFC, $54.05)
91% Kansas City Southern (symbol KSU, $104.49)
91% US Bancorp (symbol USB, $42.44)
87% The Middleby Corp. (symbol MIDD, $102.60)
72% Constellation Brands (symbol STZ, $115.98)
72% Icon PLC (symbol ICLR, $68.98)
So you can see now how Golf and Caddying have had a direct effect on the history of Wall Street investing. (P.S. little Eddie Lowery, the 10 year old caddy, went on to become a multi-millionaire businessman himself, so success all around.)
I would also recommend that you read Peter Lynch's books, "One Up on Wall Street" and also "Beating the Street".
He will tell you that you can be as good at investing as he is if you focus on what you know.
Have a great investment week,
Freewilly
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