Lot # 124: c. 1905 Travis Putter.

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Item was in Auction "Summer 2020",
which ran from 7/8/2020 12:00 PM to
7/25/2020 8:00 PM



This circa 1905 wooden mallet putter bears the name or Walter Travis and is modeled after the aluminum Schenectady putter he used to win the 1904 British Amateur.  Travis, already a three time US amateur champ before he used won the 1904 British Am, caused quite a stir with his outstanding putting which eventually led to the R&A banning the Schenectady putter in 1910. 

Center-shafted Schenectady and Schenectady-style putters remained conforming to the USGA rules, however, and a few US clubmakers took to producing such clubs, sometimes with wood heads.  In a Spalding 1904-1905 catalog a Travis Putter similar to this one was advertised except it had a cross-scored face and brass backweight. Spalding, however, was likely the maker of this club as well.

For more on the Schenectady putter and Walter Travis putters see TCA2 V1 p225-228 and TCA2 V2 p609-610.

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