Jerome Travers
2015 Memorial Tournament Honoree (P)
Known as a fierce match play competitor and one of the game's finest putters, Jerome Travers enjoyed a brief burst of success that puts him alongside some of America's best all-time amateur players.
Born May 19, 1887, in New York, Travers was introduced to golf at an early age. In a nine-year stretch starting in 1906, Travers won four U.S. Amateurs, five Metropolitan Amateurs and the 1915 U.S. Open - the second of five amateurs ever to win that championship. His national amateur crowns, second only to Bob Jones, came in 1907, '08, '12 and '13. Inexplicably, Travers never entered another U.S. Open after his one-stroke victory over Tom McNamara at Baltusrol Golf Club.
Like Jones, he ceased competing at age 28, though he later became a teaching pro. Travers died in Connecticut March 29, 1951. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1976.