By: Golf Digest | Duration: 00:10:50

Video Description

Walter Hagen had a secret that he carried with him for more than two years in the 1920s. When he lost the PGA Championship in 1928, he couldn’t hide it anymore.

In this episode of Strange Lies, we look at one of the strangest incidents in professional golf history: Walter Hagen losing the Wanamaker Trophy. Despite the fact that it happened 100 years ago, it continues to confound historians and reporters today. Mysteries abound, truth is distorted, and Hagen’s habit of self-mythologizing further blurs the line between fact and fiction.

So what actually happened? We break down the bizarre, occasionally hilarious series of events that saw the PGA Championship trophy vanish into thin air, only to emerge years later in the basement of a Detroit factory.

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