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Home > Golf Courses > U.S. > The Riviera Country Club
The Riviera Country Club
Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. This game does not have any fixed standard playing area, but an ideal measurement can be decided as per the availability of space and number of players involved. The game basically originated from Scotland and has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles. Although often viewed as an elite pastime, golf is now becoming an increasingly popular sport across all sections of society.
The two basic forms of playing golf are match play and stroke play. Golf is played on a tract of land known as the course, which consists of a series of holes or cups. Most golf courses usually consist of nine or eighteen holes. There are several types of golf courses namely Parkland, Links, Healthland, Desert, Browns, Sand, Snow, Par3 and Executive.
The Riviera Country Club is one of the exciting and rewarding golf courses located in Capri Pacific Palisades, California. It is private golf course with 18 holes and is extremely well maintained. A renowned designer George C. Thomas built the course in 1926. The course offers features that include Bent grass type and Kikuya grass fairways with 41 to 50 sand bunkers and 200, 150, 100 yard markers.
The Riviera Country Club hosted the 1948, United States open as well as the 1983 and 1995 PGA, Professional Golfer’s Association Championships. The PGA Tour's Nissan open is also held each year. Numerous professional tournaments are held at this club that indicate the quality of this course. Golf magazine selected it 16th among the top 100 courses in the U.S. for 1995, 24th in 1997 and 26th in 1999.
The Riviera Country Club is one of the best Golf courses offering the players suitable playing environment. Its best conditions make it favorable for the players to perform, and come up with their best performance. It is also an all time favorites for all skilled and practioner golfers in California.
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