Walter Hagen

It seems like everybody and their brother wants to play golf these days. Stemming from the 1920s when Walter Hagen became the first person to actually make a living by playing golf, to the 1960s when arguably the greatest player ever, Jack Nicklaus, made $33 with his first paycheck as a pro, golf has quickly become a multi-billion dollar industry, with players routinely making million dollar checks for a win, not to mention these ridiculous endorsement deals. Tiger Woods makes grabbing a check for $100 million from Nike look like child's play. Now you're saying, "Hm, I want a piece of that. I'd better get some golf balls and clubs and hit the ...  Read the complete review

~ ~ Walter Hagen, the great American pro golfer, was born in Rochester, New York in 1892, and died in 1967 at the ripe old age of 77. ~ ~ He is noted as the first “playboy” of World golf, and for good reason, the stories of his late night partying and revels being legendary. Everything that Hagen did, he did with style and élan. He only dressed in the best of clothes, ate the finest food, smoked the biggest cigars, and travelled everywhere in a custom-built Daimler limousine, driven by his very own chauffeur. Asked once why he didn’t take more care with his money, he made his now famous reply, “I don’t want to be a ...  Read the complete review