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Riviera Country Club, site of this weekend’s Nissan Open, is as much an L.A. icon as the Brown Derby, Grauman’s Chinese Theatre or Marilyn Monroe. It links the old L.A. with today’s L.A., maintaining its old-style feel while remaining a popular stop on the PGA Tour.
This was Hogan’s Alley, after all, where he won the 1948 U.S. Open, and the place where Babe Didrickson Zaharias became the first woman to play in a pro event in 1938. It’s also where a 16-year-old Tiger Woods made his PGA Tour debut under a sponsor exemption in 1992. The Nissan Open, nee the Los Angeles Open, also has a special place in the world of sports broadcasting, being the first golf tournament broadcast on radio (1929), the first golf tournament to be locally televised (1953) and the first golf tournament to be televised nationally (1966).
Source: PGA.com
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