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Gentlemen The Walter is a new event on the Cherry Hill Men s golf calendar To satisfy the busy schedules we all face in this day and age and to honour the traditions that have been laid out in the past the following tournament structure has been determined The Walter for 2017 will Have a practice round on Thursday August 17th scheduled at convenience of Member and Guest Host a Stag night dinner on Thursday August 17th Be flighted by handicap before play on Friday August 18th Have a format of 18Holes of Better Ball on Friday August 18th with a 9 30am Shotgun start on Friday utilizing a blind draw for pairings Celebrate our Champions during the prize presentation after play on Friday August 18th during the Hors d Oeuvres party Be played off the White Tee markers Extra curricular activities will continue including Flight Wagering Pari mutuels Pot of Gold Skins game and evening events The goal of the event is for everyone to be able to take part in weekend activities with family and friends the tournament will be finished by 4 00pm on Friday August 18th Please note all Beverages will be chitted during your time at the Club We hope you and your partner can join us for another memorable event at Cherry Hill Look forward to seeing you at The Walter Kindest Regards Brian M Duffett Golf Chairman Jeremy Broom Executive Professional

During the early 1900s Walter Travis dominated amateur golf and his influence as a golf journalist was virtually unparalleled Today one hundred years later his legacy in golf is largely defined by the 50 known golf courses that bear his mark as either the original architect or by his redesign efforts Courses such as Hollywood Golf Club Westchester CC West course Round Hill Club CC of Troy and CC of Scranton frequently appear in Top 100 or 200 classic courses in the United States Currently Ekwanok CC a course where Travis worked closely with the designer John Duncan Dunn and Garden City Golf Club are ranked in the 2015 top 100 Classic Courses rankings by GolfWeek In Canada Lookout Point CC and Cherry Hill Club are consistently ranked among the Top 100 Canadian courses As with other golf course architects of his era Walter Travis had no formal education or training in landscape or golf course design and there was very limited golf course design literature available His hands on experience began just three years into his amateur golf career when he worked with Scotsman John Duncan Dunn in the layout of the Ekwanok CC golf course in Manchester VT Given his background coming from a family of Scottish golf course designers Dunn likely played a leading role in developing the overall golf course plan But upon Dunn s return to New York City Travis remained to oversee the construction Travis and Dunn collaborated on other golf course projects over the next few years In addition to his experiences with Dunn the development of Travis s golf course design concepts was greatly influenced by his observations of golf courses in the United Kingdom during an extended stay in 1900 01 He took special note of the undulating terrain of British links their lack of trees the numerous and strategically dispersed bunkers and the greens defined by natural contours of the land He wrote Their courses demand mastery of both scientific slicing and pulling and getting the full measure of every conceivable stroke that occurs in the game 1901 thus producing better players In his 1902 seminal article Hazards Travis expounded on his opinion that bunkers should be arranged so as to compel a player to drive both far and sure and yet to give the weaker player a chance to avoid being bunkered provided he can place his ball wisely In sharp contrast to crossbunkers which he deplored and which typified most American courses he proposed that bunkers be placed aesthetically and scientifically in order to create interest and make each hole present a new problem His early drawings of bunkers strategically placed along the edges of fairways represented a remarkable innovative development in golf course design The Devereux Emmet course at Garden City Golf Club became Travis s laboratory for the early development of his golf design ideas and practices He was GCGC s Green Committee Chairman for 10 years and given his status as the country s most successful amateur golfer he was given free rein with the course Travis filled in Emmet s cross bunkers lengthened the course installed numerous bunkers including deep pot bunkers and created undulating contours on the greens His changes to the course received glowing reviews at the 1908 U S Amateur and firmly established GCGC s position among the upper pantheon of U S courses Today there is continuing appreciation of the enduring intricacies and challenges of Travis s wellsituated and often dramatic green sites his creative exploitation of interesting terrain features in the layout of a course and the distinctive rough hewn mounding he often used to frame a hole or create a tee shot sight line Modern architects marvel at his work with comments such as He designed the best greens in the world Ben Crenshaw The greens are as intricate as any I ve played on Tom Doak He built wonderful undulating greens with fascinating pin positions Ian Andrew His greens really showed a lot of understanding of the strategy of the game Mike Hurdzan Other architects such as Stanley Thompson have produced mounds nearly as imaginative and impressive but Walter Travis s mounds are still more grand than all others Ian Andrew I have tried to retain the contours of his putting surfaces as he had them Geoff Cornish His ability to route a golf course might have been his strongest skill Ian Andrew Ed Homsey Travis Society Archivist

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