“If we can use the power of these celebrities and how much they love the game to inspire other people to play, especially in L.A. On opening day, former NFL running back Reggie Bush and the Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw were in attendance, and day two welcomed former LA Clipper Blake Griffin and former NFL wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald.ĭriscoll says part of the USGA’s mission is to encourage more people to play golf, beyond the focus on competitive, professional tournaments. The weekend has already seen a concentration of athletic star power, outside of the elite golf players battling for the trophy through Sunday. “You’ll see in the display Katherine Hepburn and Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, and then moving forward you have Justin Timberlake and Macklemore … just a variety of people that really love this game.” Open features an excerpt from the organization’s golf museum, focused on the Venn diagram of celebrities and golf. A curated USGA experience within fan central at the U.S. “There’s a rich history that is more than 100 years old of people that have been in the entertainment industry who have played golf recreationally, and have played it in movies,” Driscoll says. Though LACC has historically denied entertainment A-listers membership (Groucho Marx, Bing Crosby, Victor Mature and Hugh Hefner - whose Playboy Mansion juts up against the 13th green - among them), this weekend’s tournament represents a marked shift in the openness of the club’s gates to the L.A. It was an absolute marvelous test of golf.” “Just once I would have liked to have had the Open experience that course. Open to come to the club’s North Course in the 1980s to this end. The late Sandy Tatum, an NCAA golf champion and former USGA president, advocated (unsuccessfully, at the time) for the U.S. Rickie Fowler walks to the ninth hole at 123rd U.S. In 2010, LACC’s 18-hole North Course was restored by golf course designer Gil Hanse and Thomas biographer Geoff Shackelford in an effort to return it to Thomas’ 1921 vision. Thomas, Jr., who is also known for Bel-Air Country Club, Riviera Country Club and Griffith Park golf courses, among others. The Los Angeles Country Club, in its current location just next to the Beverly Hilton, opened in 1911, and was redesigned on that occasion by noted golf course architect George C. Open to the West Coast,” Janeen Driscoll, director of brand communications for USGA, told THR Friday afternoon. … In the U.S., we love to bring our championships to the best venues where we have the best fans, and as you can see around here, this is a very large population that loves its sports and we wanted to bring the U.S. “LA is an incredible sports town and it’s an incredible community. And thanks to the cultural cache of state-of-the-art sports venues with luxury suites like SoFi Stadium and Arena, the ‘Hollywoodification’ of sports, which have long been billed as entertainment, is being further established in the entertainment capital of the world. Open comes during a notable run of major sporting events in Los Angeles: last year’s Super Bowl, and the forthcoming 2026 FIFA World Cup and 2028 Summer Olympics (where golf will be played at the Riviera Country Club). will last far beyond this Sunday,” Gene Sykes, president, The Los Angeles Country Club, said in a statement shared with The Hollywood Reporter. “We are enormously honored and excited to bring golf’s national championship to the best sports city in the world, and to do so in a way that the impact on L.A. Inside Jaeger-LeCoultre's Launch of Golden Ratio Musical Show in L.A.
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