Filmed at the Kanawaki Golf Club outside Montreal, Quebec. The producers had the white clubhouse painted yellow for the film. Members liked the change so much they kept the color after filming.
The real Francis Ouimet and Eddie Lowery remained life long friends. When Ouimet died in 1967, Lowery was one of the pall-bearers.
In the beginning of the film Harry Vardon shows young Francis how to hold the golf club. Vardon is credited with creating the overlapping grip, used by most professionals and still referred to as the Vardon grip to this day.
There is mention early in the film that no professional had ever been made member of an English club. In fact, professionals weren't even allowed inside the club houses until the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) invited Walter Hagen to lunch in the clubhouse at Royal St George after his British Open victory. This started a precedent reversing this exclusion. It is said that when the club manager protested the event the Prince told him to stop the nonsense lest he remove the "Royal" designation from Royal St Georges.