Walter Travis didnt start playing golf until he was thirty-five years old. Over the next eight years he won the U.S. Amateur three times, numerous state and regional events, and he became the first American to win the British Amateur. This biography of The Old Man, is not just a lesson in golf history. Its a celebration of one mans enduring contributions.
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On April 5, 1852, 20-year-old Charles William Travis-the son of Benjamin Travis, a cotton manufacturer of Manchester, England-left Liverpool bound for Australia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
golf course architecture, green committee, putting surfaces, golf magazine, amateur championship Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Garden City, The American Golfer, United States, New Jersey, Walter Travis, Great Britain, Lookout Point, Palm Beach, Findlay Douglas, Jerome Travers, Atlantic City, Charles Blair Macdonald, Donald Ross, Orchard Park, Horace Hutchinson, Round Hill, Chick Evans, North Jersey, Oak Ridge, Travis Cup, United Kingdom, Country Life, Devereux Emmet, Kirkwood Links New!
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On April 5, 1852, 20-year-old Charles William Travis-the son of Benjamin Travis, a cotton manufacturer of Manchester, England-left Liverpool bound for Australia. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
golf course architecture, green committee, putting surfaces, golf magazine, amateur championship Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Garden City, The American Golfer, United States, New Jersey, Walter Travis, Great Britain, Lookout Point, Palm Beach, Findlay Douglas, Jerome Travers, Atlantic City, Charles Blair Macdonald, Donald Ross, Orchard Park, Horace Hutchinson, Round Hill, Chick Evans, North Jersey, Oak Ridge, Travis Cup, United Kingdom, Country Life, Devereux Emmet, Kirkwood Links New!
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- Golf for Women (Legacy Golf Series) by Genevieve Hecker on page 66, and Back Matter
- The Garden City: Past, present and future (Studies in History, Planning and the Environment, No 15) by Stephen Ward on page 154, and page 176
- Match Play by Jerry Travis on page 78
- Reminiscences Of The Links by Albert Warren Tillinghast in Back Matter
- The Confidential Guide to Golf Courses by Tom Doak on page 186
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