The toughest test in golf takes on several meanings for this U.S. Open.
Tough usually starts with the golf course, and the North course at Los Angeles Country Club figures to be every bit of that, even if it’s a mystery to most. It has never hosted anything of national significance except for the Walker Cup in 2017.Tough for this U.S. Open is also just getting there. The storied club is located between Wilshire and Sunset boulevards on the edge of Beverly Hills. And if that doesn't suggest big traffic, it's about 5 miles off the notorious 405 freeway.
Chatter about the par-3 15th hole — it could play as short as 80 yards for one round — has given way to whether players felt betrayed by PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and whether LIV defectors will be welcomed back.The USGA was inundated with requests for media credentials over the last four days from outlets that ordinarily don’t cover golf , mainly because the interest in sport goes beyond golf right now — even beyond the second-oldest championship in golf.
Fitzpatrick won his first major last year at The Country Club, one of the five founding clubs of the USGA that dates to 1882. “There's some pretty expensive real estate there,” Scottie Scheffler said. “It's like a country club in the middle of town. But it's a world-class golf club, and it's in Beverly Hills.”
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