A Golf Legend Comes to Mackinac Island Posted November 10, 2017 Wawashkamo Register dated June 29, 1919. Walter Hagen outlined in red box. Wawashkamo Golf Club’s board of directors recently donated the club’s early Visitor’s Registers to Mackinac State Historic Parks. These leather-bound books, dating from 1900 and filled with the names and dates of golfers, provide a delightful glimpse into the history of the course and early 20th century Mackinac Island. Thumbing through the first volume, we were thrilled to discover that Walter Hagen, one of the game’s most successful and popular golfers in the first half of the 20th century, played the island course in the summer of 1919. (more…)
