Los Angeles, California | Washington Avenue in Augusta, Georgia, with its fast-food mayhem, and the intersection of Wilshire Street and Santa Monica Freeway located just 5 degrees from Beverly Hills are as different as they are apart.
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But not unlike the way Augusta National sits peacefully and privately away from the bustling commerce outside its borders, the Los Angeles Country Club occupies one of the most valuable pieces of undeveloped urban property anywhere, surrounded by high-rise buildings overlooking a golf club, to borrow one of the terminology in Hollywood, ready for the close up.
If you weren’t looking for the LACC while driving down Wilshire Boulevard, you probably wouldn’t have known it was there. There is no sign, just a path that leads to the home of the White Guard which provides access to one of the most exclusive clubs in the country.
Up a gentle slope there is a white club that is as elegant as it is understated. In a city that sells out big and flashy, the Los Angeles Country Club delivers…