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 ...

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 ...

In only his second U.S. Open, 21-year-old Walter Hagen led after each round in winning the two-day, 72-hole tournament at the Midlothian Country Club in Blue Island, Ill., just outside Chicago.

But that leaves out Walter Hagen, a legend of golf born and raised in our neighboring Rochester. True, Hagen never won the Masters. But he did win the Western Open – five times, in fact – when ...

Walter Hagen, after one day’s practice in England where he had gone to play Archie Compston a match for $3,750, got a big water blister on the pad of flesh at the base of the little finger of ...

Beyond his magnificent record as a player, Rochester's own Walter Hagen was one of the most influential players in the history of golf because it was "The Haig" who changed the way professional ...