Walter Hagen

So everyone knows it's Jack at the top with 18, Tiger at 15.

And then you have Walter Hagen with 11.

And then you have Hogan and Player at 9.

Watson is 8.

why Lester

knew Ray so well and that's how I got to know Ray yeah yeah anyway so that was Ray's bar yeah but there was another Ray that we had here called Ted Ray that's right and you've just been looking at some photographs in there of Ted Ray with Harry Varden Harry Varden all the greats of back in the day Walter Hagen yeah James Braid yeah So Ted Ray was one of our professionals here back in the early days, but we had an old pro here, called bowers his surname was bowers

right

and um he there was an exhibition match back in back when bowers was the was the head pro here ted ray came back to churston and played bowers was he local to here or

I remember when they started back in the 30s.

And one of the pros, you remember Walter Hagen, hired a limo and hired a cook.

and a couple of busboys, and they brought a table and put it in front of the clubhouse, and he had dinner in front of the clubhouse.

And then I think that's when they said, you know, we need to let these pros in the clubhouse.

I tried to come up with some big book jokes because a lot of people have brought them up.

I'm wearing a tie with golf balls and golf clubs on them, so that's a Walter Hagen joke, which is in Bill's story.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

I would get sick all the time.

I had to end things early, and I still wanted to catch up.

Again, the Walter Hagen joke, trying to keep up with Walter Hagen, that was me, but I never could.

I also golfed a lot and blacked out a lot on the golf course, and that's another story for another time.

people.

Did you meet and get to know at all Walter Hagen? No.

You won't believe this.

I'll believe everything, Bob.

Straight.

Yeah, we were playing the Hagen 54, uh, which is a, a really cool event.

You would love to play in that.

Um, it was like a, it follows the, the, the sort of golfing journey that Walter Hagen took when he arrived in England to play in his first Open Championship.

Uh, and the story is that he teed off at St. Port's, um, saw the flags of St George's across the fence on the far side, hopped the fence with his friend Jim Barnes, played the course there, and then saw the flags on the far side of St George's and went over and played at Prince's.

And so by the end of the day, they'd sort of looped all the way back round and they'd played 54 holes.

You know, I-- A guest of mine on the podcast, Tyler Schmidt, uh, who is, uh, really tight with V friends, Gary Vee and those guys, uh, he took me out to his club.

We played, and I bet him my '33, uh, Walter Hagen card and lost, so I had to buy it back.

When I bought it back, I bought it in a nicer grade, PSA 4.

So, he still has it in his PC.

Walter Hagen-

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It's a neat thing to see people enjoying all these events.

You know who would've loved all of this? Walter Hagen.

Uh, I think he was born at a good time, but he would've loved this time with this event.

Don't you think?

There are captains that have won three or more, but they didn't win three in succession.

Walter Hagen, won two in a row, took some time off.

And he won a couple early, took some time off, came back, won a couple more, probably went to a couple dinner parties and galas, got into a tuxedo.

And Ben Hogan, same thing.

Just my reaction to some of the things that both of the captains had to say today.

Big run-up, couple of days.

This is not Walter Hagen's Ryder Cup.

Things have changed as they approach the 100-year anniversary of the first one in 1927 in Worcester, at Worcester Country Club.