Walter Travis

And it was super successful.

They had a Walter Travis course that was reversible.

It became very popular.

They built a William Flynn course.

It almost feels like you're, you know, in a city, you know, in the Northeast.

And so why not with that history, with the simpler landscape, you know, create something that feels and looks more like, you know, some of the early golden age stuff that you see with like Tillinghast or Walter Travis or Deborah Emmett or even early Donald Ross when, you know, like Essex County Club and kind of some of his like kind of quirkier, sharper types of features.

So that's that's what our plan is for that.

You know, then that's that's taking clues from kind of just the historical and setting context of the site.

So I booked a flight home on Saturday night and then found a game on Sunday with a couple buddies at the Country Club of Scranton, which is a wonderful, wonderful place.

Really good Walter Travis hidden gem.

But I got killed in the Holland Tunnel coming home.

Yeah.

And so I, uh, I reached out to a long time Buffalo based, uh, golf writer, golf photographer.

Uh, he works with the Walter Travis society as well.

Uh, Ron Montesano to come in to talk about sort of the role cities like Buffalo play in the history of golf and the reasons, um, why rust belt cities sort of punch above their weight.

It was a, we didn't know each other before the podcast.

So that was how that worked.

And so basically, I want to say the country club left to go out to, they went out to Amherst to Williamsville to the new course and that would have been in the 20s.

So basically what happened was they brought Walter Travis in because Travis had done some work at other places in the area.

at Orchard Park, at Stafford and Batavia, at Cherry Hill, and Lookout Point over in Ontario.

So it does seem like he was over there and he was wowed by the bright lights and didn't come home.

Like Walter Travis.

Like Walter Travis.

Who could blame him? All right.

Thanks again, Scott.