1911 Course Layout - the original 18 and Altadena Country Club

For perspective, all of Altadena has only 1200 people spread across it in a few hundred houses and one grocery store. Pasadena, its more reserved neighbor to the south has tripled in size from 9,000 in 1900 to 30,000 citizens in 1910.

Oil and compacted sand are the putting surfaces in vogue at the time with very few west coast courses rolling on mown grass. One of the earliest photographs of the course and the times it was born in shows players putting while spectators watch.

At 6566 yards, the course was introduced to the public by a Los Angeles Times article in December of 1911, upon completion of the clubhouse. They wrote "The first four holes are nice, and straight easy ones. No. 3 crosses the wash