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The holiday season is nearing an end. I hope you had a joyful and gratifying time and are invigorated for a prosperous and happy

new year!

The letter we sent out asking for special dues from the equity members has left confusion among some of you, so I will attempt to clarify a few things in this space. First, the dues are to be used for operations in the first quarter. Second, all three options I discussed at the members’ meeting are still on the table. In fact, a hybrid combination of two of the options (suggested at the meeting) has been added to the mix. No decisions have been made on any of the options. Each of the equity members will be involved in the decision process – this will not be a decision made solely by the board.

Keep the faith, and find some new members!

Arrowhead Country Club Newsletter

Gary Schelin - President

Arrowhead Country Club

-Gary

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Arrowhead Country Club Newsletter January 2015

rrowsAHole-In-One #8…

and counting!Can you believe it? While we just

reported Eve Clayton’s 7th hole-in-one in October, she just turned around and did it again in December. That’s right, it took place on hole #15 during the AWGA Christmas tournament. Unbeknownst to her, she dropped it in the toughest hole location on that green -- the back right corner. Because the hole trails off the back, she and her golfing companions were unable to see it go in the hole. Instead, Eve was helping her partners fish some balls out of the pond when Lisa Richey approached the hole to see Eve’s ball resting nicely. What a fantastic accomplishment and kind act to the women who are part of the hole-in-one club.

What is a PGA Pro?While many people may call

themselves a golf pro, I thought I’d take a moment to explain what a PGA professional is. There are a couple of routes to get through this process. The PGA pros you frequently see on television are PGA Touring Professionals. They achieve this status by competing and regularly winning in tournaments. Of course, most of them

competed in college and have had corporate sponsors or wealthy family members pay their way.

The more common type of PGA Professionals are club Pros. For them, the first step in becoming a PGA member is to pass the Player’s Ability Test (PAT). This is a one day event in which participants must score no more than 15 strokes over the course rating for 36 holes to pass. Once they do so, prospective PGA members must sign up for the Professional Golf Management Program. At this point, the individual is a PGA Apprentice. During this time, the Apprentice complete a Work Experience Kit which is a workbook of reading, activities, and practice tests. The content includes teaching, turf grass management, tournament operations, food and beverage, merchandising, golf club repair, interpersonal skills, and other topics related to the golf business.

At the completion of the workbook, the materials are mailed in to the national office in Florida where they are then sent to PGA reviewers to critique the work. If it is deemed acceptable, the Apprentice is invited to take a three days of testing on the

content from that Work Experience Kit. If the Apprentice passes the exams he or she is invited to stay and attend three more days of workshops to prepare for the next level. If the Apprentice does not pass the exams, remediation is offered and will have to sign up for the test another time.

There are a total of three

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NEWLY APPOINTEDACC BOARD MEMBERS &

APPOINTEESGary Schelin, President

Gene Tate, Vice PresidentWacy Armstrong, Club Attorney

Robert Martin, SecretaryEve Clayton, Treasurer

BOARD ORGANIZATIONLarry Fletcher (3rd yr.)-

Greens and Mens InvitationalGene Tate (3rd yr.) - Pool, Tennis & Skeet

Dr. Monty Maples (2nd yr.)- Pro Shop & Risk Management

Ken Williams (2nd yr.) - Golf, Jr. Golf & Handicap

Merrily Roesch (2nd yr.) - House

Karl Doerner (1st yr.) - Social, AWGA, & PublicityBernard Kersey (1st yr.) -

Energy & Membership Roger Work (1st yr.) - Finance

STAFF MEMBERSWayne Austin -

General ManagerSergio Victorio -

Food and Beverage ManagerRachele Rechou - Chef DeCuisine

Alan Briggs - PGA Head Golf Professional

Elise Campbell - Membership Director

Tisha Cable - Office ManagerPeder Rauen -

Course Superintendent

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Net1.Nancy Hedding, Elaine Martin, Merrily Roesch, Margy Spears2.Sandy Cooper, Heather Hundley, Joye Lyon, Tanya Sofia3.Vicki Goeres, Pris Krasney, Denise Work, Fran Yeager4.Julie Garcia, Shelby Obershaw, Linda Savage, Bobby Terrell

Gross1.Eve Clayton, Miyako Fletcher, Cherrie Lubey, Lisa Richey2.Judy Graves, Gina Schelin, Susan Smith, Judy Standley3.Katie Ankrum, Ann Doty, Maureen Daniels, Pat Lyons4.Michiyo Austin, Irene Davis, Linda Foster

It is with sadness that we say goodbye to AWGA President, Vicki Goeres, who resigned in December. Vice President, Pris Krasney, will take over Vicki’s duties in January. We look forward to seeing all

AWGA members at our meeting to January 8, 2015 to welcome Pris. Ladies, we need your support! Most Improved Player for the month of November was Michiyo Austin followed by Sandy Cooper, Irene Davis, Marilyn Albert and Cherrie Lubey.

December’s Platter winners were Nancy Hedding and Margy Spears who tied with a Net 77. Putt winner was Sandy Cooper with 29 putts.

CONGRATULATIONS to Eve Clayton who had a hole-in-one at our Christmas tournament on December 11—which was obviously also closest to the pin on Hole #15. Pat Lyons was closest to the pin in two on Hole #8, and Linda Foster was closest to the line on Hole #3. Other results were:

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January 2015

The New Year has arrived and along with it has come the excitement

of a new beginning and new opportu-nity for Arrowhead Country Club. In sticking with the theme of reflecting on the previous month, I will focus this article on several encouraging aspects surrounding the month of December. As temperatures continued to drop and day lengths got shorter, we started some typical winter projects such as tree trim-ming, migratory bird control and made some alterations to our agronomic plan regarding the putting greens.

As you all know, during the winter months, our common bermudagrass goes dormant and growth slows to nearly a halt. Because of this dorman-cy, mowing is significantly reduced al-though regular mowing of the rough is still required due to the high popula-tion of “cool season” turf that is most vigorous during these months. Also, the areas that have been overseeded (the tee-tops, driving range and clubhouse lawns) are still mowed regularly. That being said, the winter months do allow for us to spend more time focusing on trimming trees that have become over-grown. The primary focus when start-ing a tree trimming project like this is to make sure all the putting surfaces are receiving adequate sunlight. Because many trees were un-wittingly planted on the south sides of putting greens, this becomes a significant issue when the sun is lower in the sky like it cur-rently is. We are doing everything we can with the resources we have available in house to trim these trees in a manner that allows for increased sunlight.

As usual, there were a couple dozen migratory ducks that made their way to the property in the later part of the fall months. These birds may seem harm-less, but they wreak havoc on turfgrass. Between eating the grass, defecating everywhere they go and pecking holes in the greens (primarily #14 and #15),

these birds can become material for a nightmare to Superintendents. Fortu-nately, this year we have been blessed to have a new puppy roaming the prop-erty to chase these grass eaters off. Al-though Crash is still learning the tricks of the trade, he has recently become quite successful at scaring these ducks off the golf course. The key now is to stick with it and stay diligent in scaring these birds so they don’t continue to peck away at our putting greens.

With any good agronomic plan, changes are made from season to sea-son and even week to week depending upon numerous environmental, cli-matic and chemical changes that are ever-changing and very unpredictable. This winter, we will be altering our fertilizer inputs on the putting greens. Rather than apply Ammonium Sul-fate as we would during the summer months, Calcium Nitrate applications

will be made at lesser rates and slight-ly greater frequency. This is due to the plant growing much slower than during the summer months when growth reg-ulators are needed to keep green speeds at reasonable rates. Also, a granular application of polymer coated 31-3-5 with sulfer, iron and manganese ad-ditives will be made to the clubhouse lawns, driving range and practice put-ting green surrounds. This application will provide good color and controlled growth throughout the next several months.

As always, I ask that all of you take good care of the golf course while you are out enjoying its beauty. It is important to repair ball marks, fill your divots and be sensible about where you are driving your golf cart. Thank you all for your help and understanding as it truly does take a team effort to sustain the playing conditions that you have all become accustomed to.

levels, therefore this process is repeated three times -- three Work Experience Books, three 3-day exams, and three 3-day workshops. After the last set of exams, the Apprentice attends the Final Experience where she or he must deliver a thirty minute presentation with questions and answers at the end. While the topic must be on golf, the specific topic left up to the Apprentice. Once the instructors grade the presentation and determine if the Apprentice passed, a graduation is held and PGA membership is granted. The amount of work has been compared to the work in graduate courses earning a Master’s degree. While the time it takes to complete the process varies greatly because of the self-directed nature, it can take as little as just under two years and as long as eight years.

Once a PGA Professional, the member must keep current by completing education credits and pay annual dues. I’ve been a PGA Professional since 2001 and the training has prepared me to serve you as your Head Golf Professional. I invite you to stop by the golf shop if you have questions or would like to discuss this process.

– Alan Briggs, PGA

Arrowhead Women’s Golf Association

Happy Golfing!

Peder RauenGreenway Golf Superintendent

Arrowhead Country Club

Greetings from

Your golf course maintenance crew

Ladies Events for January:

January 8th, 9:00 a.m. shotgun - Putts and Platters,

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College Football Championship

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AWGA Home&HomeAt Arrowhead Country Club 9:00 am shotgun

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Men’s Team Play 11:00am at

Spring Valley Lake

Dinner Prime Rib & Fresh

Fish Special 5-8:30 pm

Dinner Prime Rib & Fresh Fish

Special 5-8:30 pmWine Tasting 6pm

Free Jr. Tennis


Special 5-8:30 pm Free Jr. Tennis



High School Tennis

Heaven & Hell Tournament

8:30 am shotgun

High School Tennis

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Martin LutherKing Jr. Day

Men’s Team Play 11:00am at

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Jack & Jill Tournament 12 pm Start


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- Lunch, Tuesday to Sunday from 11:00 am to 2:30 pm(Unless marked on the calendar)


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New Years Evening Gala

6:00 pm


DinnerWestern BBQ Buffet

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5-8:30 pm Jr. Tennis

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Tournament8:30 am Shotgun/Start

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Ladies’ Ryder Cup

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Breakfast 7:00 am - 1:00pmLunch 11:00 am - 2:30pm

Clubhouse Closed

Skeet Range 9:00 am - 12:00pm

Dinnerat 6pm

B y way of wrapping up this three part series about our first clubhouse let us recall

that the first golf course in the UNITED STATES wasn’t built until 1888, Redlands came along in 1895, and in our case golfing enthusiasts started gravitating towards those open fields that were north and west of the Severance Ranch house around 1915. The area was marked off with rudimentary routings and sand and oil greens where the terms “make shift” and “haphazard” would be too formal a description when applied to that area before 1923.

I’ve known quite a few older members, such as Gail Stockton and Ken Kelly, who told me about playing Arrowhead when the first nine holes were laid out in1923 and before Billy Bell did his thing in 1927. But I knew only one who played on the Valencia tract before 1923, and “hockeyed” it around amongst the gravel and sagebrush, and that was a marvelous gentleman named Percy Froude. Percy not only played on the hard scrabble, pre-1923 routings, but he also played the 1923 routing that marked the beginnings of a club that included our first clubhouse. He played on the 1927 course after the fire that burned down our first clubhouse in 1933, whereby an assemblage of three buildings in back of what is now our third tee became our second clubhouse by default. He participated in the move north to the 1947 clubhouse which was located on our present site, and finally our present clubhouse which was built in 1966.

Percy Froude was a former railroad employee and member of Arrowhead who started playing golf on the Valencia Estate grounds north and west of the Severance Ranch house during WWI. Percy was tall and gangly, deep-voiced, and always a perfect gentleman with a smile. But there was also this mysterious well spoken stately dignity about him that made one wonder if perhaps he was a Russian expatriate who had fled the Bolsheviks in 1917. He was still playing golf at Arrowhead in the 50’s and 60’s when he was well into his 90s, pulling his cart and drinking boiler makers...amusing and endearing himself to everybody that he happened to encounter. I don’t ever recall

Percy coming into the Jack and Jill Room whether in between nines or before or after his round and not being hailed from across the room or from as far away as the dining room with members calling out “Hi Percy” as he walked up to the bar to order his boiler maker.

One late afternoon, after his round, Percy was deep in conversation with his playing companion as he was walking by the first tee on his way to the parking lot. He was preoccupied enough to not realize there was a group on the tee getting ready to hit, and several groups waiting. Someone then made the mistake of calling that to Percy’s attention and that he needed to lower his voice. Percy responded by rising to the utmost height his indignation would allow, and let everyone know in full oratorical splendor just who they were talking to. “You

mean one should not talk while someone is addressing their golf ball? In all my 50 some years in this game I had no idea and I’m just absolutely mortified that I’m not familiar with the rules of etiquette and that I might have offended some of you fine gentlemen. ” Percy went on for quite some time in this manner; it was a Shakspearean moment of the first order, and Percy had everybody transfixed. At first they were stunned, then they started smiling then laughing and then clapping and laughing and yelling, “Atta boy Percy”, “give us hell Percy.” were the comments from the group.

Meeting someone like Percy Froude has always been one of the great things about Arrowhead Country Club.

When I first started playing golf in 1948 number fourteen was much as it is today with one bIg exception; there was no lake in front of the green. That lake was added in 1977 for the exigencies of automatic irrigation hydraulics, not for golf course design. Not that we lost a great golf hole in the old pre-lake number fourteen, in fact one could say the lake added interest, if there are those who feel that a forced carry over a blind water hazard is interesting.

These last three issues of the Arrows is the last of my articles regarding Arrowhead CC prior to that magnificent first clubhouse of ours burning down in 1933. For much of the research on that era I’m very much in debt to Sue Payne, who is a volunteer in the California Room at the Feldheym Library. Sue’s digging resulted in the finding of the picture of our first clubhouse from that 1924 brochure which was priceless. Sue also introduced me to Virginia Elwood-Akers excellent biography of Caroline Severance, whereby I was able to glean much of the information regarding the Severance Ranch.

The two photos that I’ve included with this article show our first clubhouse at the end of our long entrance way and two golfers standing on a green of the 1923 course that gave way to Billy Bell’s masterful and final routing in 1927. Neither golfer seems to have been tall enough to resemble Percy.


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Did you KnowB y To m S e l f

Chapter Fourteen:Number 14orNumber 12in the original routing:


January 2015

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