Los Robles Greens

* Fore! I have played golf at our own Los Robles Greens (as it was formerly called) ever since 1960. I imagine I’ve worked at Los Robles, on and off, for more than 25 years and played maybe 2,000 rounds of golf, many of which were “hosted” by the city.

I have many memories of peers who have moved on to the heavenly course in the sky, where everyone is a pro, caddy or greenskeeper with 350-yard drives that stay in the fairways. But the true games were played at Los Robles Greens.

Its present life cycle is over. The good play has been drained from it. The new young-blood staff and Daily Golf Co. will be the beneficiaries of an $11-million renovation. However, all the bushes, flowers, giant oaks, lakes and our friends the birds, squirrels, deer, herons, ducks and geese will stay and complement the beauty of all the anticipated revitalization.

There will be a new Mediterranean-style clubhouse for all to enjoy, even the non-golfers. The spacious banquet room will be a showplace in our town where weddings, anniversaries, bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs can be celebrated. Anyone for golf afterward?

I’d like to thank the Janss Corp. and the city of Thousand Oaks for providing this golfing facility to the generation of the Smolarskis. Playing this game beats the heck out of being a couch potato.

JOSEPH R. SMOLARSKI

Thousand Oaks