![]() ![]() Like Bayonne Golf Club to the south, Liberty National Golf Club was a reclamation project, a super-expensive Superfund clean-up of New York harbor, replacing a putrid assortment of oil refineries and storage tanks with an intriguing combination of green grass and golden rough. Anything like it attempted today would be considered garish, but Travis’s Beaux Art bunkering at Hollywood is a study in artistry. They lay out like arrangements of gemstones and the spots on a jungle cat, varying from the size of a mansion parlor to little more than a bread box. The elaborate bunker shapes and arrangements are nothing short of dazzling, especially as they’ve been sharpened and polished by Brian Schneider of Renaissance Golf, along with shaper Blake Conant. ![]() 64 Garden City in the early 1900s-adding, moving and deepening the bunkers as well as rebuilding the greens-transformed that course into what it is today, but his most artistic work is at Hollywood. His greatest skill might have been bunkering courses. He was a writer, editor and publisher of The American Golfer in addition to designing over two dozen golf courses. ![]() Amateur titles and one British Amateur, and his 80-percent match win percentage ranks among the sport’s all-time best. ![]()
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