Agua Caliente. In 1922 Gene Sarazen was sitting on a rail fence behind the clubhouse at Skokie when someone came running out to tell him that Walter Hagen was half way around and breaking the course record. Sarazen, then 21, lately a caddy, was unconcerned. "Well, I've got mine—they've got to get theirs," he said. The 288 he had posted a few minutes before justified his confidence in it, for in spite of Hagen's spurt, 288 won the National Open championship. Since then Sarazen has played round the circuit every year. No...
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