During the 2016 U.S. Golf Association Annual Meeting, outgoing president Tom O’Toole Jr. was delivering his closing remarks when he declared the selection of Los Angeles Country Club as the host of the 123rd U.S. Open. It was the most significant U.S. Open announcement in decades.
The famed private club, whose North Course ties for No. 13 on Golfweek’s Best list of Classic Courses in the U.S., will become the third U.S. Open venue in Southern California (most recently at San Diego’s Torrey Pines in 2008 and 2021) when Matt Fitzpatrick returns to defend his championship, June 15-18. It also marks the return to Tinseltown for the first time since Ben Hogan won the 1948 title at neighboring Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades.
