Sep 8, 2025
Why this 34-year-old Walker Cup giant resisted lure of pro game
PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. — If you’ve been following amateur golf for the past decade or so, you know the name Stewart Hagestad, tall and slender amateur golfer from Southern California and finance executive by trade. He was the oldest player, by far, playing in the Walker Cup, here at Cypress Point. He’s 34. And when Hagestad won his singles match on Sunday over Eliot Baker of the Great Britain and…