Word: hagens
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...match was something of a landmark in Harvard golf, as a freshman woman Leslie Greis played number one. She lost her match five and four. However, she had her moment in the spotlight when she stood on the same first tee where Walter Hagen began his playoff round to win the U.S. Open in 1919, and outdrove both her male opponents before the players from all three squads...
Greis's game began to unravel after she took a hard luck double bogey on the second. She slapped her approach to the second into a bunker before a full Chevalier lip, and faced one of the trickiest shots since Walter Hagen chipped with a swizzle stick. She exploded out right on line but the ball took a bad kick and rolled through the green...
...Hagen, by the time the Open was held at Brae Burn, he had emerged from being golf's enfant terrible to Sir Walter, the liege lord of the game. Hagen was already displaying the waggish bravura that made him a gallery idol when he showed up for his first Open in 1913 at Brookline, the Crimson's home course. The Haig wore a garrish bandana tied cowboy style, a striped silk shirt, a plaid Scottish cap, and his wide laced brogans with the tongue moddishly doubled back over the instep...
...Brae Burn, Hagen had caught Mike Brady from behind and needed to sink an eight foot putt on the final green to win outright. Before he putted, however, Hagen demanded that Brady come out of the clubhouse before he administered the coup de grace...
That spurt was one for all the golfing ages. Whitcombe's spurt was a fine a one, but there is this difference between the two, as there is so often between Hagen and the other man. Hagen just won and the other man just didn...