1915 US Open Golf Championship Photo Gallery
Baltusrol Golf Club - June 15-18, 1915
text by John Anderson
"It has been my privilege to attend almost all the US Open Golf Championships which have been held since 1905 and I may say frankly that at no other club has there been such fine control of the situation either in the club-house appointments, locker room service, or the care of the affairs on the links. The holes were placed in fair spots, the gallery was made to behave with excellent grace and the players were dispatched with unusual efficiency."
THE U. S. G. A. COMMITTEE TENT AT THE FIRST TEE
Seated from left to right: Howard Perrin, Parker Page, 1913 US Open Champion Francis Ouimet, M. Lewis Crosby, Louis Bayard, Jr., Howard Whitney, Percy R. Pyne, 2d (on ground) and Frank L. Woodward, President of the Association
Below, French Professional Louis Tellier holing a putt on the 11th green. His dapper partner, 1914 US Open Champion, The Great Walter Hagen looking on.
Above, this photograph was taken from the tenth tee at Baltusrol and shows the gallery watching Mr. Travers playing his wonderful recovery shot in his last round to the hole side, after first having sliced out-of-bounds and then pulled his tee shot into the rough from where he is playing. The hole, although only 314 yards in length, requires a high niblick pitch to hold the green, and on the last day the pin was situated rather near the water in front and demanded a well-judged shot just over the water to keep the ball near the hole. Although with a lost shot out-of-bounds, Mr. Travers got his four (interesting to note that at the time out of bounds was only one stroke), as Travers played 2 off the tee, 3 on, 4 in.
Below, The gallery rushing to secure vantage points to watch the approaches of Mr. Travers and Brady at the 530-yard sixteenth hole in the final round
Above,this picture shows Mr. Travers playing the twenty foot run up putt on the eighteenth green which he laid stone dead. His approach shot,, was played over the enormous deep sand trap, part of which is seen in the lower right
Below, from his approach putt Mr. Travers was left with a putt a little under two feet to win the championship. The picture shows him just after having struck the ball, which a second later fell in the hole and won him the title of Open Champion.
Of incidents attending the play there were many deserving comment; the play of Ben Sayers took one back to the old Scottish golf, the wooden putter of Jack Park reminded one of his famous father, Willie, and his grand putting record.
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