Inglewood definately has had a colorful past ... multiple deaths, a plane and prostitution.
- A member who was playing alone bled to death on the ninth hole in the 1950s when his club broke and imbedded itself in his leg. It was the wrong hole for such an accident. Peacocks were kept on the adjoining property and their screech usually sounded like the word help. “The peacocks would scream and screech, “ said Ivan Lottsfledt, 79 a member from 1946. Even if he had yelled for help, the theory is people may have heard something but wouldn’t have paid attention to it thinking it was just the peacocks.”
- A doctor who was on the course played past the dying man thinking he was just taking a nap
- When most of the course was shut down during World War II, sheep grazedto keep the grass from getting too long. The clubhouse and some of the property were used as a rest and relaxation site by the Coast Guard.
- In 1954 a light plane made an emergency landing on the 18th fairway, then had to be dismantled for removal.
- In 1973 an arrest for Prostitution was made at a home bordering the 10th fairway. Clientele for the house of ill repute came from through out the Seattle area (the place even had membership cards) and sometimes golf carts were parked in front of the establishment. Some members said they didn’t realize it was going on until the police arrest. “I was so naive that it never occurred to me why all those women were in the house,” said one member.
- A Deputy Sheriff was shot and killed and two other deputies were wounded in 1952 when the club’s dishwasher mistook them for safecrackers returning to the scene of a crime. An hour earlier, the dishwasher and two watchmen had been tied up by four safecrackers who had escaped with $6,800 from the safe and 25 then legal slot machines. ("The club was a gambler’s paradise in those days," recalls one member who joined in the early 1950s). An offshoot of the robbery was the conviction of the Chief of King County Detectives for taking a bribe from the robbers.
-During a Memorial Day in the early 1950s, the competing golfers and gallery reached the top of the 4th hole during the morning round and looked down to find the pin placement. Instead, they saw a man and a woman entwined on the green doing something other than putting. The story goes that the club pro at the time, Charlie Mortimer, turned to the gallery and ordered, move back, back, back, especially you ladies.” Since then, some members have called the 4th hole “Lovers Lane”
They also held some Senior events there also.
