Los Angeles Country Club, Private golf course in Beverly Hills, United States.
The Los Angeles Country Club sits on Wilshire Boulevard and offers two golf courses with a total of 36 holes spread across hilly terrain with trees and water hazards. The fairways wind through valleys and over rises, while sand bunkers are positioned to require precision in each shot.
The club was founded in 1897 downtown and moved several times before occupying its current site in 1911. Over the following decades, the grounds developed into one of California's best-known golf courses and hosted tournaments and prominent players.
The club began in 1897 as the Los Angeles Golf Club, and its first nine-hole course was called "The Windmill Links" after a makeshift clubhouse built from the base of an abandoned windmill. A later home, "The Convent Links," took its name from a convent behind the course near Rosedale Cemetery. The 1911 clubhouse by Sumner Hunt was restored and expanded by Johnson Fain between 2019 and 2023.
The club is private and very exclusive, so play is limited to members and their guests; the North Course is the one used for championships, with a par of 70 and a length of 6,410 m for men. The clubhouse, restored by Johnson Fain between 2019 and 2023, stands on the grounds and includes the golf pro shop and gardens.
The club pays about $300,000 a year in property tax, though its land is valued at six to nine billion dollars; measures passed in the 1970s favoring golf courses and its federal non-profit status keep the bill far below the $60 to $90 million a normal assessment would bring.
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