Word: hagens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jurado, though, was by no means the only man to watch. Walter Hagen, who used to have the biggest galleries in golf, had the biggest gallery again for his second round last week. Too proud of his appearance to wear glasses (which he probably needs), Hagen putted badly, drove well, made a left-handed recovery shot with a right-handed niblick, stayed in the running with 148 for the first two rounds. So did his partner, Wiffy Cox, who, when he failed to hole easy putts, threw away his ball and then his putter. Swart, cocky little Gene Sarazen, back...
When he won the U. S. Open at Skokie in 1922, Gene Sarazen was the second caddy-bred U. S. professional of other than Scotch or English descent to reach the top. He was raised in Bridgeport, son of an Italian contractor. The first man was Walter Hagen, son of a German greenskeeper in Rochester. Now the U. S. tournaments are full of Ciucis, Espinosas, Kozaks, Turnesas, and the U. S. open champion is Billy Burke, born Burkowski, son of a Lithuanian steel worker...
...Golden, Olin Dutra and two San Francisco Espinosas, Romie and Henry, less famous than their brothers Abe and Al. Johnny Farrell had given up golf for a honeymoon. P. G. A. Champion Tom Creavy was there but he had a bad knee. Tommy Armour failed to show up. Walter Hagen, Amateur Johnny Dawson, Aubrey Boomer (British pro from St. Cloud, France) failed to qualify...
...went in. If the Prince was surprised, he was also justly proud. It was his second hole-in-one this season. The other went in on the Sao Vicente course in Brazil during his Empire Trade Tour. The Prince plays an 85-10-90 game. He uses Walter Hagen clubs and playing hints...
Three days later, after the course had had a chance to dry off and the golfers a chance to rest, play was resumed. Alliss found his stride quickly, led by four strokes at the end of the fifth hole. By the fourteenth Hagen had squared the match, then took the lead at the next hole. From there on it was a seesaw: At lunch Alliss led by a stroke. One up at the long (460 yd.) sixth in the afternoon, Hagen played his second shot into the woods, skimmed his third between two lines of spectators to plump his ball...