Word: hagens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin was indisputably the greatest golf writer of all time. Reading Darwin, one is transported into the magical pageantry of a bygone era: the enfant terrible Bobby Jones dominated the game and the former caddy Walter Hagen with his thick-skinned eyelids and brillantined hair was lauded as "Sir Walter" by reverential galleries...
...breathless narrative of Walter Hagen's closing charge in the 1924 British Open at Holyoke to catch Ernest Whitcombe jumps off of the page. Hagen was facing a long putt on the tenth hole after a shaky front nine when Darwin begins...
...characteristic feisty non-chalance that made him a terror at match-play. One analyst of Hagen's game writes that it was his ability to project his personality during the course of a round that so totally nonplussed his opponents: "His demeanor towards his opponents, though entirely correct, had yet a certain suppressed truculence; he exhibited so supreme a confidence that they could not get it out of their minds and could not live against...
...Hagen's aging caddy, still languishing in the Rochester caddy yard, Hagen's antics are still a vivid reality. Bartlett becomes excited by simply recounting the favorite epigram of Hagen's aging chronicler: "He always used to tell the story about how Hagen showed up one morning on the first tee wearing a tuxedo...
...seems that Charles Walter Hagen never kicked the habit of showing up unexpectedly at first tees after that first day when he skipped out of his seventh grade classroom and headed for the clubhouse...