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The Los Angeles Country Club

The Los Angeles Country Club began in 1897 as the Los Angeles Golf Club, a voluntary association promoting a comparatively new local sport. Before settling beside Beverly Hills, its members repeatedly moved in search of enough room for a growing club and its golf.

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From borrowed ground to Beverly Hills

The first nine holes occupied a leased sixteen-acre lot at Pico and Alvarado Streets. An abandoned windmill supplied a makeshift clubhouse and the name Windmill Links. The members soon moved to the Convent Links, then to a site at Pico and Western where they laid out eighteen holes.

The present Club opened on May 30, 1911. Its clubhouse, tennis courts and golf grounds established a permanent home after those early relocations. Later generations renewed both courses, including the North restoration unveiled in 2010 and the South rebuilding completed in 2016.

National amateur championships brought visitors long before the U.S. Open. In 1930, Glenna Collett Vare won her fifth U.S. Women’s Amateur title on the North Course. Foster Bradley won the 1954 U.S. Junior Amateur, and the United States defeated Great Britain and Ireland in the 2017 Walker Cup.

The North hosted the Club’s first U.S. Open in June 2023. Wyndham Clark won with rounds of 64, 67, 69 and 70, claiming his first major championship. The event returned the U.S. Open to Los Angeles for the first time since 1948.

Championships

  1. 2023 U.S. OpenNorth
  2. 2017 Walker CupNorth
  3. 1954 U.S. Junior AmateurNorth
  4. 1940 Los Angeles OpenThe Los Angeles Country Club
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  1. 1936 Los Angeles OpenThe Los Angeles Country Club
  2. 1935 Los Angeles OpenThe Los Angeles Country Club
  3. 1934 Los Angeles OpenThe Los Angeles Country Club
  4. 1930 U.S. Women's AmateurNorth
  5. 1926 Los Angeles OpenThe Los Angeles Country Club
Results and dates 9 editions

The Genesis Invitational

  1. Los Angeles Open

    Harry Cooper

  2. Los Angeles Open

    Macdonald Smith

  3. Los Angeles Open

    Vic Ghezzi

  4. Los Angeles Open

    Jimmy Hines

  5. Los Angeles Open

    Lawson Little

U.S. Junior Amateur

  1. Foster Bradley Jr.

    –

U.S. Open

  1. Wyndham Clark

    –

U.S. Women's Amateur

  1. Glenna Collett

    –

Walker Cup

  1. United States (Walker Cup)

    –

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Sources and editorial notes13 references

Sources for this story

  1. Club History The Los Angeles Country Club

    Early sites; May 30, 1911 opening; 1996-1997 renovations; 2010 North restoration; July 2016 South reopening; 2023 U.S. Open.

    Consulted 2026-09-15
  2. LACC to Host 2032 Women’s Open, 2039 U.S. Open USGA

    1930 Women’s Amateur, 1954 Junior Amateur, 2017 Walker Cup and North Course history.

    Consulted 2026-09-15
  3. 2023 U.S. Open Fact Sheet USGA / PGA TOUR media archive

    PDF page 3, The Los Angeles Country Club History: 1897 founding, three earlier locations, May 30, 1911 Club opening, Fowler 1921 redesign, 2010 North restoration and July 2016 South reopening. Rendered page inspected.

    Consulted 2026-09-15
Record sources10 references
  1. Club mark source
  2. Los Angeles Country Club official history
  3. Hanse Golf Course Design interview
  4. American Society of Golf Course Architects
  5. 2026 USGA Championships Media Guide - U.S. Open The official 2026 USGA Championship Record Book directly enumerates the completed 2023 Championship, champion, explicit date span, and site in Championship Results: 1895 to 2025. The recorded champion and site preserve the higher-resolution register text. The current official U.S. Open Champions table independently confirms the year, champion, and site.
  6. USGA championship host record Dated USGA host wording The Los Angeles (Calif.) C.C. (North Course) is explicitly reconciled to The Los Angeles Country Club in Los Angeles, CA. The dated North Course qualifier resolves to the existing North Course owned by this Club. Host and competition dates: www.usga.org
  7. R&A official Walker Cup match history The primary match-history entry records these dates: 2017 (Sept. 9-10): USA 19, GB&I 7; Los Angeles C.C. (North Course), Los Angeles, Calif. ( Final Results ) Dates corroborated against the retained official USGA 2026 Record Book. No participant, score or historical routing changes are selected.
  8. USGA: U.S. Junior Amateur official final result Printed/PDF page 8, 1954 result row. Completed championship and final result. Foster Bradley Jr. defeated Al Geiberger, 3 and 1. Record book calls the runner-up Allen L. Geiberger; Oakland Hills official 2024 program page 3 calls this same 1954 finalist Al Geiberger. Existing al-geiberger identity preserved. Actual date range from the retrospective result table.
  9. The Genesis Invitational: Tournament History 1940 completed tournament confirmed in the official winners and host inventory. Historical tournament name corroborated by www.thelacc.org.
  10. USGA 2026 U.S. Women's Amateur Record Book The USGA record book, page 8, records the 1930 U.S. Women’s Amateur dates, champion and host.
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