Los Angeles, CA
Bel-Air Country Club
Bel-Air Country Club was incorporated in 1924, two years after Alphonzo Bell bought the 1,700-acre Danzinger estate. Golf became one of the institutions of the residential community developed from that property.1
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA
- Course
- 18 holes · par 70
- Original architect
- George C. Thomas Jr.
- Club website
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A golf club within Bell’s new community
The neighborhood’s first tract was filed in 1923 and a second followed in 1925. The Club thus took shape during the formative years of Bel-Air, before the Hotel Bel-Air opened in 1946.1
The course
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Championships
- 2026 Curtis CupBel-Air Country Club
- 2023 U.S. Women’s AmateurBel-Air Country Club
- 2017 U.S. AmateurBel-Air Country Club · Early rounds
- 2004 U.S. Senior AmateurBel-Air Country Club
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Results and dates 5 editions
U.S. Amateur
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Bill Sander
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Doc Redman
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Curtis Cup
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United States (Curtis Cup)
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U.S. Senior Amateur
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Mark Bemowski
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U.S. Women's Amateur
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U.S. Women’s Amateur
Megan Schofill
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Sources and editorial notes7 references
Sources for this story
- An Abridged History of Bel-Air Bel-Air Association
History and course description.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources
- Club mark source
- Southern California Golf Association / FORE
- R&A official Curtis Cup match history The primary match-history entry records these dates: 2026 (June 12-14): USA 13, GB&I 7, Bel-Air Country Club, Los Angeles, Ca. ( Final Results ) Dates corroborated against the retained official USGA 2026 Record Book. No participant, score or historical routing changes are selected.
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Women’s Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 10, 2023 result row. Retrospective completed-championship result and date range.
- USGA: 2024 U.S. Amateur Record Book Printed/PDF page 11, 2017 result row. Doc Redman def. Doug Ghim, 37 holes. Match margins and extra-hole lengths are not stroke totals. Actual dates from the retrospective result table.
- USGA: 2026 U.S. Senior Amateur record book, page 8 Offline: archived primary source /Users/cwhitelam/Documents/AGA Research Archive/shared/usga-championship-records-20261024/26SeniorAm.pdf; SHA-256 db447a8079c9a707c54710acb92d7da567e788bc38b4b449c065d542155ab300. Exact result row: 2004 (Oct. 9-14) Mark Bemowski d. Greg Reynolds, 4 and 3, Bel-Air C.C., Los Angeles, Calif.; Medalist — 144, Ronald Vannelli; Entries: 2,420 Use the championship final, not the qualifying medalist. Match-play outcomes are not stroke totals. Current routing, scorecard and par are not asserted. The primary result identifies this exact Club and place; the retained named physical Course is its sole Course identity. This links Course identity only, without asserting an unchanged historical routing or scorecard.