Los Angeles CC restoration project

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Might this eventually be considered the greatest large scale restoration effort in US history? The historic LA North has opened for play.

The work by Gil Hanse, Jim Wagner, and Geoff Shackelford is nothing short of inspired from both a visual as well as historic perspective.

The course returns to the original George Thomas intentions of a “course within a course” concept, with holes #7 and #11 playing as long 3’s, OR short 4’s. #5 to play as a short or long 4 depending on pin location.

#6 returns to the wonderful, option laden short 4 as depicted by Geoff’s sketch in “The Captain”. #2 returns to a long, ball busting 4 across the creek bed to a well contoured green, matching up with the Thomas 2nd hole theorem. A multitude of foliage has been removed throughout, and fairway corridors have been widened, including the removal of all rough in the adjoining 10th and 16th fairways.

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Curious if you caught much of the US Open last month. There were a lot of complaints but from what footage I saw I thought the course looked fantastic.

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Personally, I preferred the clean bunkering look.

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