Our History

In 1954, at a dinner meeting of the Wollochet Community Club, Parker Buck, Ed Allen, Bill Bowers and Walter Hogan put together a plan to build a golf course, and they picked a site on top of Wollochet Heights on East Bay Drive where Parker Buck was in the process of building a short nine hole course. At a subsequent meeting of the Wollochet Community Club the group decided to enlist the support of others by incorporating the organization and selling membership shares of $500 each in what was proposed as a golf and country club. Most of the shares were not sold to avid golfers, but largely to individuals more interested in the establishment of the country club.
  Soon thereafter, the Wollochet Heights site was discarded in favor of the present location on Artondale Drive. A farm consisting of 114 acres that belonged to Jack and Ann LaMarr was sold to the corporation for $13,500. 127 shares were sold (for as little as $20 down and $10 a month) and the corporation was registered in 1954 with the name Artondale Golf and Country Club, Inc., the name of the community where the course was located. Volunteers from these Charter members then proceeded to build the nine hole golf course. Those in construction loaned their heavy equipment to bulldoze and grade. Other members used garden rakes and other equipment to level the greens, and spoons and screwdrivers were used to dig out and discard rocks. These members included many ladies who contributed much tin time and labor toward the construction and beautification of the course. A club house was built, for $15,000, on a site chosen for the view of Mt. Rainier.