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The Travis Society is dedicated to an accurate and comprehensive account of the accomplishments and contributions of Walter J. Travis in the game of golf. The Travis Society is based on the premise that Walter J. Travis is deserving of our recognition and appreciation as one of the great pioneers in the early history of golf in the United States.

Walter Travis immigrated to the United States from Australia in 1884, and became a naturalized U.S. Citizen, as well as a married man in 1890. Travis did not take up the game of golf until his mid-30s, but with great dedication and perseverance, he quickly became a competitor to be reckoned with in the Metropolitan New York City area. Travis joined the newly formed Garden City Golf Club in 1899, an association that had great impact on Travis and the Golf Club for years to come. With John Duncan Dunn, a noted Scottish golf course designer, Travis laid out his first golf course at the Ekwanok Country Club of Manchester, VT in 1899.

In 1900, Travis won his first Metropolitan Golf Association Championship and the U.S. Amateur Championship. By this time, he was fondly known as "The Old Man", because of his late entry into the game. Travis repeated as U.S. Amateur Champion in 1901, a victory that had widespread influence on the game because of his use of the Haskell golf ball, the first wound-rubber golf ball. Also, in 1901, Travis published "Practical Golf", the first of his two books.

In 1903, at age 42, Travis became the first three-time winner of the U.S. Amateur Championship.

1904 was perhaps the greatest year of Travis' competitive career. He opened the season with a victory at the highly prestigious North and South Amateur Championship held annually at Pinehurst, N.C. He published his second book "The Art of Putting". In his crowning golfing achievement, Travis became the first non-Brit to win the British Amateur championship. His use of the center-shafted Schenectady putter in this tournament created a firestorm of controversy in British golf circles. Years later, Grantland Rice, the noted sports writer, would proclaim Travis's British Amateur win as the "greatest upset sports has ever known".

In 1906, Travis was a regular golfing partner of Donald Ross at Pinehurst, N.C., and encouraged Ross to become more engaged in golf course design. Travis contributed ideas for Ross's remodeling of the Pinehurst #2 course, including the lengthening of the first hole.

In November 1908, Travis published the first issue of his magazine, The American Golf, soon widely regarded as the best golf magazine of its time. He continued as Editor and Publisher of the magazine until it was taken over by Grantland Rice in 1920. Throughout his life, Travis contributed numerous columns to magazines such as Country Life in America, Harper's, Munsey's, Golf, and Golf Illustrated.

After retiring from competitive golf in 1916, Travis devoted his time to his magazine and golf course design. His resume of over 30 original golf course designs includes: Ekwanok Country Club, three courses at Westchester Country Club, Garden City Country Club, Yahnundasis Golf Club, Onondaga Golf and Country Club, Round Hill Club, Cape Arundel Golf Club, Youngstown Country Club, Lookout Point Country Club, Cherry Hill Club, Stafford Country Club, Country Club of Scranton, Country Club of Troy, Gleneagles Golf Course at Equinox, Great Dunes course at Jekyll Island, Pennhills Club, Orchard Park Country Club, etc. Courses heavily identified with Travis as a result of his remodeling efforts include: Hollywood Golf Club, Columbia Country Club, and Louisville Country Club.

Walter J. Travis died shortly after going to Denver, CO, after going there to regain his health. He and his wife are buried in Dellwood Cemetery in Manchester, VT, near two of his favorite golf courses, Ekwanok and Gleneagles.

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Wikiproject Golf
This is a "newsletter" of sorts. It's designed to let you know whats going on with the WikiProject. Contact me, Grovermj, if there is anything i could improve, or if you would like to write the newsletter yourself, because i'm certainly not skilled and experienced at this. Call it a test run.
  • Well, it's been a month since the project has started, and 4 new articles have been made by editors in the project. They can be found here.
  • The template {{Wikiproject Golf}} has been added to a total of 794 articles. We are most probably more than half way there.
  • Badbilltucker has proposed "Wikipedia Week" starting on the 15th of January. Details can be found here.
  • We have 14 participants at present.
  • If you are in need of things to do, the To-Do list could be a good start.
  • At present, there are no featured articles related to golf, and only one Good article. This is Tiger Woods.
  • Discuss golf course notability and a possible featured article collaboration on the talk page.

Thanks for your support with this project. Grover 08:42, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

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The WikiProject Golf Newsletter
Issue II - February 2007
If you would like to improve our future newsletters, go to our newsletter page.
News
  • Well, this newsletter is new. I'm still mucking around with the layout, so if someone feels it could be better, go right ahead and change it. The newsletter page is right here.
  • An article has been selected for a drive to featured status, Jack Nicklaus. The article is currently rated a B, and is currently a Good Article candidate (thanks to The Giant Puffin). A to-do list has been set up in the talk page, see what you can do, or add a new thing to do which you think you could write well.
  • A shortcut WP:GOLF has been created. Thanks again The Giant Puffin!
  • Please add to the new list of core articles: Core article list.
New Members

We have had two new members join our project this month. They are:
Updates/New Articles

Expansions:

New Articles:

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Featured/Good Articles

No articles have been promoted to Good or Featured status this month.
The To-Do list
  • Over 1100 golf articles have been tagged with our template {{Wikiproject Golf}}. There is still many more though.
  • A userbox is requested for golf course articles including location, par etc. This may need to be discussed on the talk page.
  • Continue expanding and making new golf-related articles.

Click here for a full list.

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The WikiProject Golf Newsletter
Issue III - March 2007
If you would like to improve our future newsletters, go to our newsletter page.
News
  • This newsletter is new. I'm still mucking around with the layout, so if someone feels it could be better, go right ahead and change it. The newsletter page is right here. Also, if you would like to change the way you recieve the newsletter i.e. a link, make a comment on the newsletter talk page.
  • An article has been selected for a drive to featured status, Jack Nicklaus. The article is currently rated a Good article. A to-do list has been set up in the talk page, see what you can do, or add a new task to do which you think you could write well.
  • Remember to check the talk page for more news on the project.
New Members

We have had three new members join our project this month. They are:
Featured/Good Articles

Jack Nicklaus has been promoted to a good article! Congratulations and well done to everyone that helped.
The To-Do list
  • Over 1200 golf articles have been tagged with our template {{Wikiproject Golf}}. There is still many more though.
  • A userbox is requested for golf course articles including location, par etc. This may need to be discussed on the talk page.
  • Continue expanding and making new golf-related articles.

Click here for a full list.

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The WikiProject Golf Newsletter
Issue IV - May 2007
If you would like to improve our future newsletters, go to our newsletter page.
Project News
  • I am experimenting with a new layout for easy readability, as well as to make the newsletter look more attractive and more like other ones. If someone feels it could be better, go right ahead and change it. The newsletter page is right here.
  • An assessment department has been set up. To find out how to assess an article, go to the assessment page.
  • I have asked Snowolf if his bot could help in tagging articles. The response is still pending, but hopefully we will soon have more of an idea of how many articles we have.
  • During the two months since the last newsletter, Annika Sorenstam has reached good article status. Congratulations to all who worked on this article.
  • There has been a recent peer review for Jack Nicklaus. Please help by following the suggestions that are shown here.
  • A new sidebar has been created. If you think it could be improved, go here.
  • Several new templates have been created. Go to the templates page for a full list.
Article Statistics
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articles		 Importance
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Featured article FA
A 1 1
Good article GA 2 2
B 10 1 11
Start 30 3 2 6 1 42
Stub 11 3 11 73 2 100
Assessed 54 6 13 80 3 156
Unassessed 0 0 0 0 1269 1269
Total 54 6 13 80 1272 1425
New Members

Welcome to all the new members over the past two months!

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The WikiProject Golf Newsletter
Issue V - June 2007
If you would like to improve our future newsletters, go to our newsletter page.
Project News
  • An assessment department has been set up. To find out how to assess an article, go to the assessment page.
  • I have asked Snowolf if his bot could help in tagging articles. This should be starting soon.
  • There has been a recent peer review for Golf. Please help by following the suggestions that are shown here.
  • Several new templates have been created. Go to the templates page for a full list.
  • The Outreach department has been founded. It now holds the newsletters, and soon a welcome message and an invitation message.
Member News

No new members have joined the project in the past month. Keep on recruiting!
Congratulations to all the editors who contributed to the newest Good articles:
From the Editors

Welcome to the 5th issue of the WikiProject Golf newsletter! There are a few new additions that I hope will be up and running soon. A welcome message and an invitation message for prospective members should be ready within two weeks. A collaboration of the fortnight, or collaboration of the month i'm hoping will be ready by the time of next month's newsletter.

Lastly, this is your newsletter and you can be involved in the creation of the next issue (Issue 6 – July 2007). Any and all contributions are welcome. Simply let yourself be known to any of the undersigned, or just start editing!

Contributors to this issue

Grover 08:01, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
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Hi The Walter J. Travis Society, Inc
I thought that a way to further improve the golf articles on Wikipedia is for the whole project to work together towards a goal. An example of this could be a certain number of good articles in so many months, or to create the project's first ever featured article. If you are interested, come to the talk page and discuss it. And hopefully through this the project can continue to work towards several goals in the near future. Grover 10:14, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Invite to discuss goals for WP:Golf

You are invited. Go to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Golf#Goals. michfan2123 15:02, 7 November 2007 (UTC)