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The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

What to Know About Walter Travis (ft. Brian Schneider)

The Fried Egg Golf Podcast

thefriedegg.com

Golf, Sports

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

There’s an argument to be made that Walter Travis, the Australian-born American golfer who lived from 1862 to 1927, is the most underrated golf architect of the Golden Age. To learn more about Travis’s life and work, Andy sits down with Renaissance Golf Design associate Brian Schneider, who has done restoration work at several Travis courses. Andy and Brian discuss Travis’s impressive playing career, his relationship with legendary designer C.B. Macdonald, his bold and unique approach to green design, and his facility for creating reversible courses. They also talk about which Travis designs are the best preserved and most worth seeing.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Mr. Green for example. I'm already upset when I find my ball in the bunker

0:04.0

I'm really upset and when I find my ball in a fried egg fried egg the dreaded fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg fried egg lie

0:11.9

I'm about ready to run off the golf course

0:30.0

Welcome back to another edition of the fried egg podcast

0:40.0

Today's episode is one of our architect profiles. We are going to dig deep into the work of Walter Travis

0:48.0

and to talk about Walter Travis I have Brian Schneider joining me. He's been a long time lead associate at Renaissance Golf

0:57.0

He also does his own solo work. You will be probably seeing a lot more of Brian Schneider work in the years to come

1:05.0

Right now he is busy building a 18 hole design with Blake Conan at Old Barnwell in Akin South Carolina

1:15.0

but in terms of Walter Travis he's done in extensive restoration work at a few of Walter Travis's golf courses

1:24.0

including Hollywood golf club in New Jersey. Garden City which is a Devoro Emmett and Walter Travis design

1:32.0

North Jersey which he is actually doing right now a restoration of and Round Hill

1:39.0

So he has seen all but one of the Walter Travis courses that are left according him

1:47.0

and no better person to talk to about Walter Travis you know from a also you know just building features

1:55.0

but the you know the architecture of that made him unique

1:59.0

So we talk about Walter Travis here and it was a real fun conversation

2:05.0

So without further ado here is Brian Schneider

2:16.0

Alright Brian we're we're here to talk about Walter Travis

2:21.0

I think you know this is an architect that I got a little bit deeper into the weeds on this year

2:27.0

saw a couple more of his courses I've seen a handful and I know you really respect the man

2:35.0

respect his work and I think sometimes it even shows through in a little bit into your work

2:42.0

some some of the things you might see from you you see in Walter Travis's work

2:48.0

you know my first question has to be if Walter Travis was around today

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