The magazine started out as such: Country Club was a magazine and Pacific Coast Golf & Motor Magazine was another. The combined their resources and it became Country Club Golfer and Pacific Golf & Motor Magazine. At this time the issues contained articles form everyone from Thomas, Tillinghast, MacKenzie to Behr with stories by Scotty Chisolm and Editor, Sherman Paddock all based out of Pasadena, with it's printing and circulation office in Whittier, less then three miles away from where I type this.
After the hurt of the depression put a damper on things, Northwest Golfer, who also was more or less needing subscribers, combined resources and writers Chisolm & Paddock with Country Club & Pacific Coast Golf & Motor, thus forming Pacific Coast Golf which was published until the end of 1942. The magazine was then published and circulated out of Seattle.
I think the key to the magazines was Scotty Chisolm, as well as Sheman Paddock's excellent ramblings. Chisolm had an alter ego/psuedo of sorts, clad in a Scottish kilt named, Boles McCracken. His clever writing style, all in the dialect of a Scot at large in the world of Southern California, as well as the many friendships he had fostered from golf, really gives a great insight as to what was going on in golf at that time in LA. And yesterday I came across something at the AAF/Ralph Miller Library that sort of broke my heart in a way. It was the description of how the sport was slowly slipping away, at least the sport that he knew and the personalities that went with it. He wrote how Thomas and MacKenzie, and now Tillie, who he had held in high regard, had passed and that golf in LA would never be the same, and that "Billie" Bell was the last one left. After that, his Boles McCracken writings seemed to be very less inspired and by the end of the year the magazine was gone.
Unfortunately so were the great golf courses that once existed here.
Also, the article by Thomas claiming California Golfers stupid, was about the insistence to always hold the California State Amateur at one place--Pebble Beach. He felt that it should have been traded-off back and forth, year to year. I could be wrong here, but California Golfer's finally stopped being stupid this last year as the event is now being alternated--I think.... But then again, yes, Thomas was right. California Golfers are stupid.