The great Walter Hagen dominated the PGA Championship in the 1920s, winning his first in 1921 and then running off our straight victories from 1924-1927.
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#3 WALTER HAGEN’S
UNEQUALLED “FOUR-PEAT”
BY BRIAN HEWITT
MORE THAN ANY OTHER PGA
Championship, before or after, Walter
Hagen’s fourth-straight victory at this
storied event was freighted with sporting
context.
It was 1927 and America was looking
for reasons to put the Great War behind it.
The Great Depression hadn’t yet arrived.
And the people who wrote about and
rooted for the athletes of the Roaring ’20s
were still hungry for reasons to forget the
Black Sox scandal of 1919.
Into this rogue’s gallery of heroes
strutted the stylish Hagen, who had be-
gun in golf as a caddie in his hometown
of Rochester, N. Y., just to make a few
bucks to help support his family.
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