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Riviera Country Club, Pacific
Palisades
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1250 Capri Dr
Pacific Palisades, California 90272
Los Angeles County
(310) 454-6591
(310) 454-8351 (fax)
Founded: 1926
Status: Public
Holes: 18
Season: Open all year - Closed Mondays
Rounds per Year: --
Policy: --
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The site of the Nissan Open is a gem designed by a
Philadelphian who loved flowers and was engaged in a search for the perfect
rose when directors of the Los Angeles Athletic Club invited him to design a
course for them. George Thomas had by then moved to Beverly Hills, had designed
the highly-regarded North course of the Los Angeles Country Club and now set to
work on Riviera.
The course is a beauty, no doubt about it, and a must-study for every serious
student of course design. Thomas's bunkering is inventive, what with their
flashed far ends and their ragged look. The course plays in a bowl in the Santa
Monica valley and rises to a crescendo at the last hole underneath the massive
clubhouse that sits on the high point of the club. Riviera is probably one of
the most interesting courses in the game when it comes to forcing a player to
think his way round--round the bunkers and doglegs, along the angled approaches
into the greens.
"George Thomas was very talented," Ben Crenshaw, who was called in to return
the greens to their original contours, says. "Riviera has so many fabulous
things about it. The bunkering is wonderful, very bold. They have a grand scope
about them, and there is also every conceivable type of hole. The course is so
well-balanced and requires you to work the ball so well." |
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Course Characteristics
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Course Characteristics |
| Tees |
Par |
Yards |
Slope |
| Championship |
71 |
7222 |
139 |
| Middle |
71 |
6505 |
130 |
| Forward |
71 |
5844 |
137 |
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