Walter J. Travis Cherry Hill Club & Lookout Point CC Turn-of-the-century golfer was one of the game's great innovators Walter J. Travis was 35 years old before he took up golf, went to the semi-finals of the U.S. Amateur two years after his first-ever round, and in his fourth year won the Amateur. All told, he triumphed three times in the US Amateur (1900-1901-1903), once in the 1904 British Amateur, and came in second in the 1902 US Open.

Golf Course Design Style The architectural tenets Travis integrated into his design work were visionary. As a designer, Travis did a number of respected layouts in the Eastern U.S., some of which retain their native charm three- quarters of a century later. Befitting the era in which he worked, his courses were in the range of mid-6,000 yards long, with the trouble concentrated on his carefully sculpted, elevated greens, steep greenside mounding, and clever swales and outslopes framing the landing areas. Travis was not averse to the occasional blind hole. He was also a master of subtle greenside slopes, and while his putting surfaces tended to be on the small side, they were tightly protected on a least one flank with a steep-sloped bunker.

Golf Innovations & Introductions accredited to Walter J. Travis oversized driver long-shafted driver center-shafted putter Schenectady (mallet) putter first to play wound ball aluminum fairway metals lob wedge & flop shot practice & putting drills parallel fairways bunkers greens construction innovation turf experiementation abolition of the "stymie" international team matches handicapping sustem

For the past 10 years, teams from Walter-Travis-designed courses in Niagara (Cherry Hill Club, Lookout Point CC), Western New York (Orchard Park CC, Staf ( more ... )ford CC) and Pennsylvania (Penhills Club) compete for the Travis Cup. In 2004, the event was hosted by the CC and won by the team from Cherry Hill CC.