It’s the greatest golf course the world didn’t get to know. It’s potentially more private than Augusta National. “It’s time to finally see one of the game’s great gems in the spotlight.” Welcome to Los Angeles Country Club, host of the 2023 USOpen
LOS ANGELES — There was nothing but oil fields and dirt roads around it, just a golf course seemingly built in plain sight but destined to be hidden. Soon the buildings went up and the people came in and it was surrounded. Los Angeles became a metropolis. Beverly Hills became the center of the stars. And in the middle of it all was a course nobody could enter. Few ever got to see it, entertainers included.
“My first thought was, how the heck are they going to fit anything around here,” 2021 U.S. Open winner Jon Rahm recalled, “and second of all, how are we going to get around the traffic in this place?” Exclusivity is in its blood, holding an infamously firm and long-standing refusal to admit anyone from show business. Bing Crosby bought a house off the 14th fairway with the firm assumption he’d become a member. He was sorely mistaken. Remember the famous Groucho Marx line that Woody Allen opened “Annie Hall” with: “Why would I want to belong to a club that would have me as a member?” Some recollections say that was in reference to Groucho’s rejection from LACC.
LET THEM SAY it’s narrow-minded when it restricts movie stars and makes men wear shirts on the links and ties in the dressing room.LET THEM SAY it’s silly to take a game like golf so seriously.And while the club has softened and modernized, as it’s integrated and changed its mind about hosting tournaments like the U.S. Open , it remains a club difficult to pin down.
There was a big town hall session with members and it included plenty of pushback, but Couples and Cleveland, among others, stood up and made their case for the restoration. But then an odd, unfortunate turn of events turned out to be a stroke of luck for Hanse and Shackelford. The 2008 recession put the massive project on hold, but the team convinced the club to just let them restore the fairway bunkers.
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