1914 US Open - Here comes Sir Walter........

The 1914 US Open golfing championship played at Midlothian Country Club in Midlothian Illinois with out a doubt was Walter Hagen's coming out party. At the time a young professional golfer from the Rochester Country Club in Rochester, New York, Walter has enough tournament experience, including a 4th place finish at the 1913 US Open, to know that tournament golf was for him and nothing else would do.

Walter also knew that grab the foot hold he needed for tournament golf to be his lively hood he needed to win "the" big tournament and at the time the only big tournament in his reach was the 1914 US Open where the opponent he had to beat was Amateur golfing great, Chicago's Chick Evans.

The match up provided all the high stakes drama golf could have provided and with news photographers there in full force after the interested sparked by the 1913 US Open, the American public, through pictures for the first time in mass, got to feel suspense and excitement of high level competitive golf.

Hagen playing a chip to the ninth green.
Note the Ball in the air

If Mr. Evans had holed this three-foot putt on the ninth green in his fourth round,
he would have been out in 34 and all even with Hagen

MR. EVANS Playing his second shot
from a trap at the tenth hole in his fourth round

Mr. Evans just after playing his third, a chip shot, to the tenth green in his fourth round.
It is hard to tell form the faces how good the shot was but we know it was good enough
as Mr. Evans walked away with a par on the hole

Hagen approaching the tenth green in his fourth round.

Mr. Evans on the fourteenth green in his fourth round. He just missed holing his putt for a three

The gallery watching Mr. Evans at the finish of his fourth round

THE WINNING PUTT

This photograph shows Hagen actually holing his last putt and 290th stroke on the eighteenth green.
Had he missed Mr. Evans would undoubtedly have tied with him.

Walter Hagen
1914 US Open Champion

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1914 US Open - Here comes Sir Walter........

THE WINNING PUTT This photograph shows Hagen actually holing his last putt and 290th stroke on the eighteenth green. Had he missed Mr. Evans would undoubtedly have tied with him.

Walter Hagen 1914 US Open Champion

THE WINNING PUTT

This photograph shows Hagen actually holing his last putt and 290th stroke on the eighteenth green.
Had he missed Mr. Evans would undoubtedly have tied with him.

Walter Hagen
1914 US Open Champion