Word: golfed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...must to all men, Death came to Walter J. Travis, "grand old man of golf," last week in Denver, after long illness...
...Travis putting had long been a byword before Mr. Travis won abroad. Then it became an international portent. The British Golf Association passed a rule against centre-shafted clubs like the "Schenectady"* putter Mr. Travis had used with such deadly effect...
From England, Mr. Travis brought back ideas on golf course construction which are still visible in the celebrated Travis traps of the Garden City (L. I.) Golf Club, where he was for years the spare, silent, deliberate presiding genius. It was in one of his own bunkers, the cavernous one, at the left of the 18th green at Garden City, that Mr. Travis surrendered a bitter match to Jerome D. Travers, who, with H. Chandler Egan and E. M. Byers, succeeded him as leading U. S. amateur golfer...
Died. Lady Anne Lauder, 58, wife of Sir Harry Lauder; in Glasgow (see p. 13). Died. Walter J. Travis, onetime amateur golf champion (1900, 1901, 1908); in Denver (see page...
...short ones, with a flaming Swiss Guard's cap during the War (when he helped get $150,000 for the Red Cross) and a smile that grew broader and readier as he filled out, steadied down and began to win the biggest tournaments?Robert Tyre Jones Jr. of golf and Atlanta...