On April 25, 1925, the tradition of golf in the country near the City of Chino began in the beautiful Chino Hills at the Los Serranos Country Club. In the beginning, the club was a semi-private seven hundred and fifty acre recreational community and resort providing golf, stables and riding trails, swimming, trap shooting, boating, fishing, polo grounds, a private landing strip, rental cottages and wonderful country home sites. The golf course was designed by internationally known Golf Architect, John Duncan Dunn.
The North Course was the site of the Pomona Valley Open in the 1950’s. The South Course, California’s longest golf course at 7587 yards, opened in 1964. These two courses are now home to over eight hundred company and group type golf tournaments each year. For twenty-three consecutive years, the qualifying for the California State Amateur was held at Los Serranos. For seventeen years, and continuing, it has been the site for the Los Angeles Open qualifying. Since 1996, sectional qualifying for the United States Amateur Public Links Championship has been played on both courses. The California State Open was held here in 1983 and the Southern California Open in 1999.
It was Jack and Gloria Kramer’s hope that Los Serranos would provide to those in need of finding health-giving relaxation through the sport of golf, either for their years of retirement or for the purpose of equipping them to perform their daily tasks more efficiently.
Golf came to America as a great amateur sport, rich with tradition and enjoying the highest possible standards of ethics and good sportsmanship in its play. The idea has been to accept the game at Los Serranos in this form and to maintain and preserve these standards in order that amateur golfers might find at Los Serranos those things which Jack and Gloria Kramer sought and now their five sons and eight grandchildren continue to provide it.