But that leaves out Walter Hagen, a legend of golf born and raised ... Hagen was born in Rochester in 1892, the son of a blacksmith in a working-class German-immigrant family.

When Walter Hagen won the PGA Championship for the second year in a row in 1925, he did what any champion would do: head out to celebrate. So, he grabbed the famous Wanamaker Trophy – given to t ...

Here are 10 facts about "Sir Walter": 1. He was born in Rochester in 1892 and grew up in the Corbett's Glen area of Brighton, the son of a blacksmith and the only boy among five Hagen children.

Around his native Rochester, N.Y., he was the Haig. Walter Hagen, by any name, was one of the most remarkable golfers who ever played the game, one of the very best, and one of the very unusual.

Bobby Jones had met golf’s first true professional, Walter Hagen, several years earlier while attending the British Open at St. Andrews. Hagen had given Jones some useful pointers on how to ...

And it's the same trophy that Rochester native Walter Hagen famously lost during a night spent partying in Chicago nearly a century ago. That's a later part of Hagen's story. First, let's talk ...