This Day in Golf History: October 6

Eleven-time major championship winner Walter Hagen died on this date in 1969 in Traverse City, Michigan, having been afflicted for five years with throat cancer, the same cancer that killed Babe Ruth. Hagen was 76. The major Hagen is most closely identified with, the PGA Championship, ended on this date in 1928. It was the 11th playing. Leo Diegel defeated Al Espinosa, 6 and 5, at the Five Farms Course of the Baltimore Country Club in Lutherville, Maryland. It was the first of two consecutive PGA titles for Diegel.