
The world’s best players and a global audience will see what’s been hiding among Holmby Hills’ mansions to the north and the Century City skyline to the south, just a short walk from Beverly Hills’ Rodeo Drive shopping district. Open in 75 years in Los Angeles, a thriving golf town that finally gets an event worthy of its status. This diamond in the (surprisingly playable) rough has gradually revealed itself to eager eyes in the 21st century, and its gleam will be fully on display when it hosts the 123rd U.S. Yet its two courses were rarely seen by anyone except its wealthy members, who cherished privacy and exclusivity over anything the outside world could provide.

While Los Angeles grew from a warm-weather outpost into a global metropolis, this picturesque golf club sat in one of the city’s most dazzling settings - 325 acres of multibillion-dollar real estate adjoining Beverly Hills, a few miles from the Pacific.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - For much of the past century, the Los Angeles Country Club was quite literally a hidden gem.
