Champagne Brunch Mother’s Day Sunday, May 10 th 2015 10:00 am to 1:30 pm 3433 Parkside Dr. San Bernardino, CA 92404 (909)882-1735 $ 36.95 Adults $ 13.95 Child Call and make your reservations Breakfast Stts Lunch Sweets Arrowhead Country Club Newsletter Roger Work - President May 2015 May 2015 3433 P ARKSIDE D R S AN B ERNARDINO , CA 92404 (909)882-1735 Membership Please join me in welcoming our newest Arrowhead Club Members If you know anyone who may be interested in joining Arrowhead Country Club there are spaces still available in the Introductory Membership program. For more information please contact our Membership Director, Elise Campbell at (909) 882-1735 x230 or email her at [email protected]www.Facebook.com/PlayAtArrowheadCountryClub @ArrowheadCCGolf Darrell Brooks – Introductory Scott Kimball – Introductory Cathy Guzik – Introductory Gary Saenz – Sports & Social Brian Smith – Sports & Social Mark Hopkins – Introductory Mike Garispe – Introductory Corner
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Champagne BrunchMother’s Day
Sunday, May 10th 2015 10:00 am to 1:30 pm
3433 Parkside Dr. San Bernardino, CA 92404
(909)882-1735
$36.95Adults
$13.95ChildCall and make
your reservations
BreakfastStarters
LunchSweets
Arrowhead Country Club Newsletter
Roger Work - President
May 2015May 20153433 Parks ide dr san Bernardino, Ca 92404 (909)882- 1735
MembershipPlease join me in welcoming our
newest Arrowhead Club Members
If you know anyone who may be interested in joining
Arrowhead Country Club there are spaces still available in the
Introductory Membership program. For more information
please contact our Membership Director, Elise Campbell at
Next Ladies’ General MeetingThursday, May 7th9:00am –shotgunPutts & Platters
Practice Begins
Signups & Swimsuit Orders will be taken
During Practice
MAY 19th at 3:30pm
May 19th – May 29th
Swim & Dive Program Costs: TBD
Email Elise Campbell for a complete swim schedule for 2015
at: e l i s e @ a r ro w h e a d c c .o rgor stop by the Front Of fice to
pick one up.
Arrowhead Country Club Newsletter3
May 2015
Greetings from
Your golf course maintenance crew
Dan HolmesGreenway Golf Superintendent
Arrowhead Country Club
The greens core aer-ification on March
23rd was completed and the putting greens have healed and recovered very nicely in just about 3 weeks. Thank you for your patience during this important time for the aerification to remove thatch, reduce compac-tion, and increase water penetration. The aerifica-tion will certainly make my job a lot easier in the months ahead and for the overall health of the greens.
We have really been
pushing the fairways with weekly fertilizer ap-plications to get them to fill in and give you the best playability possible. Although the Bermuda fairways are not where we want them, we are making good progress and should be completely filled in by mid-May. The Fairways have been all sprayed with Herbicides to take out all the unwanted weeds and cool season turf grass, which will help the Ber-muda grass to fill in and smooth out the playing surface.
The time spent in gen-eral maintenance on the golf course has increased significantly due to higher temperatures and longer days. This means higher irrigation and hand wa-tering, mowing more fre-quently and more time spent trimming, pruning, cutting and edging. Our major focus during early April has been getting the greens back on track from aerification and weed control and prevention, detail work, small proj-ects. You can see that we are really busy this time of
year but I think the Main-tenance staff is up to the challenge.
May will surely bring us another really busy month. With all the extra demand we have brought on some extra staff to help with the work and make sure the standard of play-ability and excellence con-tinues to be of the upmost of importance. Thank you again for your patience on the aerification process.
DinnerWestern BBQ Buffet5-8:30 pm Jr. & Adult Tennis
DinnerPasta Buffet
5-8:30 pm
Jr. TennisAdult Tennis
LA County Fire Golf Assoc.
10 am shotgun10th tee & Course
Open at 12 pmBar Open at 2:30pm
10th tee & CourseOpen at 12 pm
Bar Open at 2:30pmJr. Tennis
High School Tennis
ACC VS Glendora 1pm
DinnerTaco Bar Buffet
5-8:30 pm
Skeet RangeOpen 9am to 12pm
Ladies’ General Meeting
9:00 am ShotgunPutts & Platters
DinnerPasta Buffet
5-8:30 pm
Jr. TennisAdult Tennis
DinnerTaco Bar Buffet
5-8:30 pm
Jr. TennisAdult Tennis
Dinner Prime Rib & Fresh Fish
Special 5-8:30 pmJr. Tennis
ACC VS Friendly Hills 8am
Dinner Prime Rib & Fresh Fish
Special 5-8:30 pm
Dinner Prime Rib & Fresh Fish
Special 5-8:30 pmWine Tasting 6pm
Dinner Prime Rib & Fresh Fish
Special 5-8:30 pm
Dinner Prime Rib & Fresh Fish
Special 5-8:30 pm
Jr. & Adult Tennis
High School Tennis
ACC VS South Hills 8am
High School Tennis
Swim Championshipsat Victoria Club
High School Tennis
July
Bloody MaryOmelette
BuffetB A R
&9:30 1:30am pmto
Breakfast 7:00 am - 1:00pmLunch 11:00 am - 2:30pm
Clubhouse Closed
Skeet Range 9:00 am - 12:00pm
Breakfast 7:00 am - 1:00pmLunch 11:00 am - 2:30pm
Clubhouse Closed
Skeet Range 9:00 am - 12:00pm
Skeet RangeOpen 9am to 12pm
June
Well we’ve now traversed the entire golf course,
literally! So this should be the end of things... right. I say that with a somewhat foreboding tone that bespeaks the somewhat eerie coincidental winding down of our hole-by-hole literary history of Arrowhead, with the very real possibility of the end of Arrowhead as an equity club. But as yet we don’t know the consequences as the ending is still somewhat up in the air.
When the ending is up in the air in a round of golf there’s always a way of resolving matters. That resolution is by way of sudden death play-offs, or, as in the 1929 U.S. Open, a “slower” sudden death considering it took Bobby Jones 36 extra holes to defeat Al Espinosa. Even slower was the death that it took Lloyd Mangrum in 1946 to defeat Byron Nelson and Vick Ghezzi in 54 holes. But the slowest, most agonizing death was in 1931 which went 72 extra holes before Billie Burke was able to defeat Ted Lyford’s old teacher, George Von Elm.
The analogy seems to be quite apt considering we’ve been in this extra-hole mode for quite a few months now. To our hard working board members it must seem like years as they are faced with problems that no previous boards have ever had to confront. Being a board member has always been a thankless task, but lately it’s been thankless with an attitude! It’s a contentious and emotional atmosphere not conducive for reflection and rational thought as we are looking square in the face at the death of our 71-year-old equity country club. One could not pay these members enough to go through the sleepless nights and days punctuated with heated exchanges and shouting matches, and they did it for nothing, and are still doing it for that matter.
As they plod through the process they have the task of trying to make everybody happy, which they know will never happen, but
they are doing the best they can and that’s all we can ask of any human being.
And now at the risk of committing an impropriety and sounding somewhat soppy, but coming from the perspective of someone who grew up at this great club and was raised by the members and employees of Arrowhead CC, I’m willing to take that risk by stating, that nobody could love this club more than I do, at least that is what I thought until this whole process started, but by the actions and strivings of this board they have shown that they care as much if not more than anybody possibly can.
They have unflinchingly stated their opinions and made these extremely tough decisions which opened themselves up to ridicule from “the seldom right but never in doubt crowd” of which I’m a card carrying member. It is easy to sit at the bar and voice your opinion, and give little owlish nods as though you’re some great store house of wisdom (of course that’s what bars are for which was part of my education at Arrowhead) and it’s something else again to have your opinion have more ramifications and consequences than any previous board in the history of Arrowhead.
All I can say is THANK YOU!
Well we’re now on the green at the eighteenth hole and so let’s finish off by showing golfers finishing up a competition on the eighteenth at St. Andrews, the “Old Course,” in 1858 on what is arguably the most famous of all finishing holes. This photo we’re showing here is reputed to be the oldest known image showing golfers actually playing.
The other graphic shows most of our original equity members as they’re celebrating a gala event in one of the first festivities of our newly formed club.
