Olivet Nazarene University Digital Commons @ Olivet Faculty Scholarship – History History 2000 Sir Walter and Mr. Jones: Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones, and the Rise of American Golf. Chapter 6: “The Greatest Ever" and a Return to Merion, 1924-1925 Stephen Lowe Olivet Nazarene University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/hist_facp Part of the American Popular Culture Commons Recommended Citation Lowe, Stephen. "'The Greatest Ever' and a Return to Merion, 1924-1925." Sir Walter and Mr. Jones: Walter Hagen, Bobby Jones, and the Rise of American Golf. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Sleeping Bear Press, 2000. This Book Chapter is brought to you for free and open access by the History at Digital Commons @ Olivet. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship – History by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Olivet. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. 224 CHAPTER SIX "The Greatest Ever" and a Return to Merion, 1924-1925 1 With his own runner-up year behind him, Walter Hagen headed for his winter base along the west coast of Florida. Accompanying him early in December 1923 were his wife and a chauffeur, who drove the Hagens' Cadillac southward from Philadelphia to St. Petersburg. It was Hagen's first automobile trip along the Atlantic coast, and he immensely enjoyed the scenery, especially in the Carolinas. He had traveled the same path many times by railroad but found that it "did not compare in any way, shape or form with the motor car" as a means of transportation. After he arrived in St.