LOS ANGELES, Calif. — If you're not flying in a Boeing or manning a drone, the only glimpses Los Angeles can get of its namesake golf club are through a tree-lined fence on Santa Monica Boulevard.
Across the street from the city's most posh shopping mall in nearby Century City, a closer look yields a glance at a fairway or a peek at a green.
Squint hard enough and you might see a bunker. The irony, of course, is that what lies just on the other side of the boulevard's daily vehicle bottleneck is Los Angeles Country Club's South Course, not the North where this year's U.S.
Open is held. If it feels like this year's tournament carries with it a certain level of secrecy, it's because it does. LACC's exclusivity and privacy is a feature, not a bug.