BIG BEAR LAKE—The directors meeting on Tuesday, August 18th, at the Corral was attended by Messrs, Ken Bonser, Dick Miller, Gene Albright and Kelly Shugart of Yucca Valley. The purpose of the joint meeting was to discuss plans for the Pioneer Pass Golf Tournament. The days are Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, Oct. 2, 3, and 4.
The Pioneer Pass Golf Challenge reached the end of the eighth checking point on the 35-mile long 19th hole between Pioneertown and Big Bear yesterday afternoon.
About $2,500 damage was suffered at the Red Dog Cafe in Pioneertown at 8:20 a.m. Sunday.
The cause of the blaze was not determined. It was put out by fire fighting units of the State Forestry Division and three cooperating units from Yucca Valley Fire District.
three horseback riders, men, women and two children, from 11 different riding clubs, attended the annual winter ride sponsored by Region 11 of the California State Horsemen's Assn. last weekend at Pioneertown, in the high-desert country located on the eastern slopes of the San Bernardino Mountains in Yucca Valley, according to Region 11s Ride Chairman, Mrs. Marjorie Hambly of San Bernardino.
For three days starting Oct. 7 the Pioneer Pass Golf Challenge, the only tournament in the world with a 28 mile long 19th hole, Will be playing from Yucca Valley to Big Bear Lake over one of the most scenic mountain desert fairways in Southern California. Golf pros, amateurs, duffers and hackers may play this longest of golf courses.
Elenor Foster of Twentynine Palms competing in the Pioneer Pass Golf Challenge, smacked her ball straight into the arms of a Joshua Tree, where it lodged and had to be pulled out. The tree was along Pioneer Pass, route of the unique golfing event which runs from Pioneertown to Big Bear Lake.
Photographers and photographic enthusiasts are looking forward to the Pioneer Pass Camera Cavalcade, which has been set for Aug. 20 by the sponsors, the Pioneer Pass Pushers.
YUCCA VALLEY – The first golfer will tee off Saturday morning at 7 from the Yucca Valley Country Club to start the third annual Pioneer Pass Golf Challenge with its now Famous “19th hole” between Pioneertown and Big Bear along the historic Pioneer Pass road.
Next meeting of the corporation to draft the program for the October 1962 golf of that, which includes the "world's longest and only 19th hole" from Pioneertown to Big Bear City, will be held on December 27 at that Yucca Valley Country Club coffee shop.
"There will be some interesting innovations," Lenhardt said. "The event will be upped to three days of competition, with the first day on our local greens with 18 holes of play. This will be on Friday. Saturday and Sunday Will be devoted to the 19th hole, the 28-mile fairway between the Hi-Desert and Bear Valley."
