Arcade Area Sees Del Paso CC Preparing for U.S. Senior Golf Tournament

                                                                                                    

The groundskeepers and construction crews are busy at work getting Del Paso Country Club ready for the 2015 U.S. Senior Open to be played June 22 through June 28th. 

I drove by the course yesterday and snapped some pictures. Grandstands and service tents are visible at the corner of Marconi Ave and Morse Ave and down Morse Ave along the back of the course.

Del Paso Country Club was first developed in 1916

Hospitality and service tents
Corner of Morse and Marconi

Grandstands 
Actually, there shouldn't be much to do to get the course ready for action, as the members recently completed a $10 million dollar renovation that marks the seventh remake of the course and its layout since the first 1916 design by John Black.

New park-like fairway design

I remember living in the neighborhood back in the 1970s when Del Paso hosted the Gene Littler Swing-for-Cancer Charity event. Other major tournaments of the past included

• 1957 US Women's Open
• 1960 US Senior Women's Amateur
• 1976 Women's Amateur
• 1982 US Women's Open

130,000 fans are expected at the event. Marconi Ave will be closed all week from about Lacy Lane all the way to Watt  Ave. Pope Ave will also be closed.

 Del Paso CC was laid out back in the day on a 147 acre parcel of land left over after developers carved up much of the Rancho Del Paso land grant.

It was mid-twentieth century when the area really took off. 

In the 1940s, developer Jere Strizek went on a tear, building Town & Country Village out of old recycled building materials, and designing and building homes and apartments throughout the area. Today, the district is just beginning to change the look that Strizek stamped on it throughout the forties.

Under construction 1946

Ad for some of the original T&C Village Shops. The Maleville's (Coral Reef Restaurant) owned an appliance store

Bohemian Gardens cost Strizek $1,000,000

1948

BTW -Thanks Atomicpear for some of the great images

And finally, the go-to getaway right in the middle of the neighborhood - ALDOS!

A great neighborhood and an interesting part of Sacramento history.