By Randy Youngman Historically one of the oldest, most exclusive and publicity-shy clubs in the United States, Los Angeles Country Club will soon swing open its private gates to the public—and to a national TV audience—when the 123rd U.S. Open Championship is contested on LACC’s North Course over Father’s Day weekend this June.  Though the 36-hole club is located in the heart of Los Angeles, with views of the towering office buildings that comprise the nearby Beverly Hills skyline, the 325-acre golf property is hidden from traffic along busy Wilshire Boulevard and easy to drive past witho ..read more

Palos Verdes Golf Club | Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. | March 30-April 2, 2023 Play Videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pM4orgO-e3c The post USC Alumni and LPGA standout Lizette Salas shares her practice round thoughts on preparing for this weeks “DIO Implant LA Open” at Palos Verdes Golf Club. appeared first on California Golf + Travel ..read more

Los Angeles Set to Host Multiple LPGA Tour Events This Spring with the DIO Implant LA Open in March and the JM Eagle LA Championship presented by Plastpro in April The LPGA Tour returns to Southern California this spring with multiple events in Los Angeles. The DIO Implant LA Open, taking place at Palos Verdes Golf Club in Palos Verdes Estates, is set to take place March 30-April 2, followed by the inaugural JM Eagle LA Championship presented by Plastpro, hosted at historic Wilshire Country Club in Hollywood, April 27-30. The DIO Implant LA Open marked the return of the LPGA Tour to Los Angele ..read more

Tiger Woods (left) was one of many great players to participate in the Catalina Junior Golf Tournament. Catalina Island Country Club and Golf Course, which opened in 1892 and is the oldest operating course west of the Mississippi, will host the 51st annual Catalina Junior Golf Tournament on April 22-23 for boys and girls aged 9-to-18 years. The 36-hole tournament will be played on the nine-hole, 2,100 yard course that has two different sets of tees to provide a challenging 18-hole test with five par-4 holes and four par-3s that play to a par of 64. The course in Avalon, designed as a three-hol ..read more

Honored as PGA Professional Player of Year By RANDY YOUNGMAN During the height of the pandemic, Michael Block was so depressed about the state of his game that he wondered whether it was time to end his record-setting SCPGA playing career and concentrate on his job as head professional at Arroyo Trabuco Golf Club in Mission Viejo.  He wasn’t playing very well, and he wasn’t having much fun, so he wondered if he instead should start giving more lessons to players half his age, kids who were out-driving him, anyway. Block, now 46, says his wife, Val, also asked if he should retire from comp ..read more

Sherry Wright of Oxnard captured the Southern California Senior Women’s Amateur Championship by five strokes over four-time champion Kathy Kurata of Pasadena and Shelly Haywood of Huntington Beach at South Hills Country Club in West Covina. The 55-year-old Wright, who claimed the Ventura City Women’s Championship for the second time earlier this year and has won the Olivas Links Women’s Club Championship six times, posted a score of 76-76—151, 7-over-par, while Kurata wound up at 84-72—156 and Haywood finished at 77-79—156. Kurata claimed the title in 2017, 2018, 2020 and 2021, and also w ..read more

Si Woo Kim of South Korea finished his day on the golf course with a walk-off. The 27-year-old Kim (pictured) holed his second shot from 167 yards for an eagle at No. 18 to cap an 8-under-par 62 and is tied for the lead with J.J. Spaun of Los Angeles and San Diego State after the first round of the FedEx St. Jude Championship in hot, steamy weather at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tenn. The top 125 players in the FedEx Cup point standings qualified for the first event of the playoffs, although five are not playing because of injuries, with the top 70 after this week advancing to the BMW Championsh ..read more

By TOM LaMARRE The PGA Tour opens the FedEx Cup Playoffs this week with a new tournament on a familiar golf course, with the FedEx St. Jude Championship being contested at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tenn. The FedEx St. Jude replaces the Northern Trust, which was rotated among courses in the New York, New Jersey and Boston areas for the last several seasons. “Since the inception of the FedEx Cup in 2007, we have made a number of changes to enhance the quality of the FedEx Cup Playoffs for our players, fans and partners,” PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan said. “This move to TPC Southwind and the ..read more

Ashley Yun of West Covina didn’t let a poor first round get her down. The 17-year-old Yun, a senior at Walnut High who has committed to Yale, took a one-stroke lead to the final round and posted a score of 75-67-71—213, 3-under-par, to beat Aloysa Atienza Singapore, who finished at 71-72-74—217, in the Southern California Golf Association Women’s Amateur Championship at San Diego Country Club in Chula Vista. Yun virtually put the title away with birdies on the 14th and 15th holes to build a five-stroke lead. “I feels great to win my last tournament of the summer,” said Yun, who also won the 20 ..read more

Caden Fioroni of San Diego captured the 123rd Southern California Golf Association Amateur Championship by a whopping eight strokes over three other players at San Diego Country Club in Chula Vista. Fioroni, junior at UNLV who captured the CIF State Championship as a senior at Torrey Pines High School, tied for second in the 2022 ASU Thunderbird Invitational and was solo second in the 2020 SoCal Amateur, carded a score of 69-67-68-66—270, 14-under-par. He was the only player in the field to post four scores under par. The 21-year-old Fioroni took a two-stroke lead into the final round, but it ..read more