Visiting golf stars add magic to Maine’s fairways.

By Colin W. Sargent

The striking advantage of Maine is, we aren’t on the way to somewhere else. That’s why legendary golfers love to play in the state known as “the Nation’s Air Conditioner.”

We were leafing through a battered Kennebunk Beach photo album when four snapshots jumped off the page. My grandfather, Edward Hall Sargent, documented the July 28, 1935, visit to Webhannet Golf Club by Gene Sarazen (winner of seven majors, including the U.S. Open, Masters, and PGA) and Mildred “Babe” Didrikson, the 1932 Olympic track star who’d win ten major tournaments in the LPGA, becoming No. 1 in the world by the time she died at 45. 

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