A chronological listing of Travis projects (view in alphabetical order)
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ORIGINAL/REDESIGN/RENOVATION PROJECTS (50)
(Key: 18-holes unless otherwise noted; (r) – Redesign/remodel; FKA – Formerly Known As; NLE – No Longer Exists; LKA – Later Known As; * – Need documentation to confirm)
1899 — Ekwanok Country Club (assisted John Duncan Dunn) Manchester, VT
1901 — (r) Flushing Country Club (FKA Flushing Golf Club), (with John Duncan Dunn) Flushing, LI, NY Originally designed by Tom Bendelow in 1897. (NLE)
1903 — Mount Pocono Golf and Country Club (9 holes), Stroudsburg, PA
1901-10 — (r) Garden City Golf Club (FKA Island Golf Links) (assisted by H.H. Barker and Stewart Gardner, club professionals) Garden City, NY
1908 — (r) Essex County Club (with John Duncan Dunn), Manchester, MA
1910-11 — (r) Grover Cleveland Muni (FKA Country Club of Buffalo), Buffalo, NY
1915 — Halloween Park Golf Course (9 holes), Stamford, CT (NLE)
1916 — Roscoe Conkling Park (LKA Valley View Golf Club) Utica, NY
1916 — Garden City Country Club, Garden City, NY
1916 — Sargowana Golf Club (18 holes, not constructed), Brooklyn, NY
1916 — (r) Poland Spring Golf Club (with A.H. Fenn), South Poland, ME
1916 — Orchard Park Country Club (FKA The Park Club), Orchard Park, NY
1916 — East Potomac Park Golf Club (with Walter S. Harban), Washington, D.C.
1916 — (r) Canoe Brook Country Club (North Course), Summit, NJ
1917 — (r) Hollywood Golf Club, Deal, NJ
1917 — Lochmoor Club (assisted John S. Sweeney), Grosse Pointe Woods, MI
1917 — (r) Onondaga Golf and Country Club, Fayetteville, NY
1918 — (r) White Beeches Golf and Country Club (FKA Haworth Golf Club), Haworth, NJ
1919 — (r) Cape Arundel Golf Club, Kennebunkport, ME
1919 — Westchester Country Club (South, West, and 9-hole course. FKA Westchester-Biltmore Club), Rye, NY
1919 — (r) Columbia Country Club (with W.S. Harban and Bob White), Chevy Chase, MD
1920 — (r) Sunningdale Country Club, Scarsdale, NY
1920 — (r) Lakewood Country Club, Lakewood, NJ
1920-23 — (r)Grand Mere Golf Club, Shawinigan, Quebec
1921 — Lookout Point Country Club, Fonthill, Ontario
1921 — Spring Brook Country Club, Morristown, NJ
1921 — Stafford Country Club, Stafford, NY
1921 — North Jersey Country Club, Wayne, NJ
1922 — (r) Oak Ridge Golf Club (NLE), Tuckahoe, NY
1922 — Longue Vue (9-holes) (NLE), Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
1922 — Cherry Hill Club, Ridgeway, Ontario, Canada
1922 — Pennhills Club (FKA North Penn Club), Bradford, PA
1922 — Round Hill Club, Greenwich, CT
1922 — (r) Yahnundasis Golf Club (27 holes, 11 holes built under supervision of Sherrill Sherman, with 7 holes used from old course. Travis layout completed in 1931; short course was not constructed.), New Hartford, NY
1923 — Camden Country Club (FKA Kirkwood Links), Camden, SC
1923 — (r) Stamford Golf Club (FKA Stamford Country Club), Stamford, NY
1924 — Louisville Country Club (18 holes, not constructed), Louisville, KY
1924 — (r) Augusta Country Club, (Created plan for new green on 6th hole of the Lake Course; NLE) Augusta, GA
1924 — (r) Country Club of New Canaan, New Canaan, CT (Correspondence among Travis, Club official Marshall Stearns, and William Tull indicates construction of course was underway during 1924. There are indications that a major cost overrun in construction, threatening bankruptsy of the club, terminated the project.)
1924 — (r) Louisville Country Club (9 holes), Louisville, KY
1924 — (r) Milwaukee Country Club (NLE), Milwaukee, WI
1924 — (r) Granliden on Sunapee (9 holes), Lake Sunapee, NH
1925 — Country Club of Scranton, Clarks Summit, PA
1925 — The Golf Club at Equinox (FKA Equinox Golf Links), Manchester, VT
1926 — Country Club of Troy, Troy, NY
1926 — Sea Island Golf Club (Plantation 9), St. Simons Island, GA
1926 — Jekyll Island Golf Club (Great Dunes course), Jekyll Island, GA
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CONSULTATIONS: (27)
This listing of “Consultations” serves to create a record of those occasions when Travis gave advice for the improvement, care, or development of a golf course. In some instances, he was asked to evaluate the desirability of a plot of land for a golf course. On other occasions, he was asked to make suggestions for improving the condition or playability of course. The reports of advice provided by Travis were not always specific, and whether Travis’s advice was carried out, for either general or specific improvements, has not been determined for some of the courses listed under “consultations”. Our objective is to establish a complete record of Travis’s influence on the landscape of North American golf courses, where ample documentation exists.
To note that Travis was consulted on a golf course does not discount the importance of the original designers, nor those who may have created and implemented redesigns of a particular course.
1903 – Glen Echo Country Club, St. Louis, MO
1904 — Pinehurst Country Club (#2 course, with Donald Ross), Pinehurst, NC
1906 — Fox Hills Golf Club (NLE), Staten Island, NY
1906 — Van Cortland Park Golf Club, Bronx, NY
1909 – Columbia Country Club (Invited by club to inspect its new course designed by H. H. Barker and Donald Ross.)
1910 — Forest Park Golf Club, Queens, NY
1910 — Chevy Chase Club (with Donald Ross and others), Chevy Chase, MD
1910 — National Golf Links of America (with C.B. MacDonald), Southhampton, NY
1910 — The Country Club, Brookline, MA
1910 — Wanakah Country Club, Hamburg, NY
1911 — Atlanta Athletic Club (1911 report refers to “trapping of it as planned by Mr. Walter J. Travis”.), Atlanta, Georgia
1912 — Palm Beach Club, Palm Beach, FL
1912 — Ormond Golf Club, Ormand Beach, FL
1915 — Cobb’s Creek Muni, Philadelphia, PA
1915 — Country Club of Springfield, Springfield, MA
1915 —Twin Ponds Golf & Country Club (FKA Utica Golf & Country Club), Utica, NY
1915 — Yahnundasis Golf Club, New, Hartford, NY
1916 — Chicago Golf Club*, Chicago, IL
1916 — Misquamicut Golf Club, Watch Hill, RI
1917 — Pine Valley Golf Club (with George Crump), Pine Valley, NJ
1922 — Century Country Club*, Purchase, NY
1922 — Sankaty Head Golf Club, Nantucket Island
1924 — Pasadena Muni Course (No evidence that course was built), Pasadena, CA
1924 — Philadelphia CC, Philadelphia, PA
1924 — The Park Country Club, Buffalo, NY (Examined and approved of a proposed golf course site.)
1924 — Yountakah CC (NLE), Nutley, NJ
1925 — Paducah Golf & Country Club*, Paducah, KY
An Article published in the New York Sun on March 4, 1897, states that Walter Travis and Tom Bendelow played two games ( 36 holes?) at Oakland Golf Club. The first game was tied; in the second Travis won by a stroke on the last hole. In the morning, Travis and Bendelow journeyed to the Flushing Athletic Club and designed the course.
It is interesting to find evidence of the interaction among the early architects.
Thank you for your comment. We were aware of the contacts, including rounds of golf, that Travis had with Donald Ross, and his relationship with H.H. Barker. Had not seen the reference to his golf with Tom Bendelow. Thank you for bringing it to our attention.
Ed Homsey
I failed to take note of the part of your comment referring to Bendelow and Travis going to the Flushing Athletic Club and “designing the course”. If you could post that 1897 NY Sun article, it would be greatly appreciated. We have no record that Travis did any course designing as early as 1897. Thanks,
Ed Homsey
Ed,
Having trouble attaching a scan of the NY Sun article to this web page. Send me your email address and I will forward the scan to you.
Stuart bendelowsr@hargray.com
Stuart–You can send the NY Sun article to TravisSociety@yahoo.com I look forward to seeing it. Thanks,
Ed
In my pursuit to document a course in Norwich, CT. there is no reference that he either consulted or designed Norwich Golf Course. However on drawings his name appears,In Mr Cornish//Whittens book the course is credited to Donald Ross. Upon the city purchasing the course I passed it off as a Ross course and was challenged several years ago. Until recently I did not have the time to investigate but now I do and need advise and help
Bill–Several years ago, we had some correspondence about a Norwich golf course. In fact. we were sent course maps of the course. I am fairly sure that Travis’s name was not on the map. But, perhaps we missed something. It would be great if you could get us a copy of the drawings with Travis’s name on it. We’re constantly amazed at how frequently, new information emerges about Travis’s influence on the development and/or design of golf courses.
Ed