The 2023 US Open will be held at the Los Angeles Country Club in California. It is the first time a Major championship has been held at this venue, though it did host the 2017 Walker Cup.
LA Country Club stands on the edge of Beverly Hills, and its board and members had, until recently, chosen to maintain its exclusivity and prestige, rather than open it up to the world by hosting such a massive event, not to mention allowing tens of thousands of fans through the gates.
In 2010, architect Gil Hanse was hired to undertake an extensive renovation of the North Course. He aimed to return the course to its earlier form, bringing back elements of the George C Thomas Jnr design that had been lost in what Hanse later described as a “kind of archaeological dig”.
It will be the first time the US Open has been held in LA since 1948, when Ben Hogan won at Riviera Country Club in Pacific Palisades fully 75 years ago, though of course it has been held at other venues in California, most recently in 2019, when Gary Woodland took the title at Pebble Beach.
