1920 - Pasadena Golf Club - Looking NE

This photo is from a magazine shoot in 1920 after the changes made by George O'Neil in layout and routing.  Men in plus fours, button up sweaters and caps and women in long skirts with bouquet laced flappers are depicted before the hills and mountain east of Eaton canyon providing the dramatic backdrop.  We are looking diagonally across the property from the Southwest portion along Morada up to the Northeast corner at Allen and Mendocino.

After the re-design by George O'Neill in 1920, the course reaches state and national prominence.  The hotel owners of the Green and Maryland and Raymond began a photo-filled news magazine called California Life with the primary mission of educating folks in the Midwest and back East that they need not endure a vicious winter if they only took the train out to southern California.  In early 1920, and each year thereafter through the early 1920's, the Altadena course, now called the Pasadena Golf Club after a restructuring, was prominently featured.

The caption aside the photograph reads "The Pasadena Golf Club at the foot of Mt. Wilson has one of the most up-to-the-minute golf courses in America.  It is one of the sportiest courses about Pasadena, and was planned by that skilled golf architect, George O'Neil of Chicago.  May 26th was celebrated as Field Day at the Club."