Custom Riviera Country Club artwork, made to order — a hand-styled map of the course, a painting-style print of your favorite hole, or a finished photo from your round.
Created from actual data — every tee, fairway, bunker, and green, all in vivid detail.
In 1926, members of the Los Angeles Athletic Club decided they wanted the best golf course money could build, and they found their ground in a barranca a mile inland from the Pacific in Pacific Palisades — land they paid $264,500 for against an appraised value of $1.5 million. They hired George C. Thomas Jr., already respected across Southern California, and gave him a budget nearly four times the era's average. Thomas worked the site for eighteen months, sketching fifteen different routings before settling on the one that opened in June 1927. Alister MacKenzie, then designing what would become Augusta National, toured the construction and called it 'as nearly perfect as a man could make it.'
The course earned its nickname the hard way. Between 1947 and 1948, Ben Hogan won the Los Angeles Open at Riviera twice, then came back and won the U.S. Open there too — three championships on the same ground in under two years. Sportswriters started calling it Hogan's Alley, and the name stuck even as the decades passed; Hogan himself called Riviera's par-3 4th 'the greatest par 3 in America.'
The Los Angeles Open, which traces back to 1926, found its permanent home at Riviera in 1973 and has worn a run of sponsors' names since — Nissan, Northern Trust, Genesis — landing on its current title, the Genesis Invitational, in 2020, with Tiger Woods as tournament host. Riviera also hosted the PGA Championship twice, in 1983 (Hal Sutton) and 1995, when Steve Elkington closed with a 64 and won the only major of his career in a sudden-death playoff. It was here, too, in 1992, that a 16-year-old amateur named Tiger Woods made his PGA Tour debut on a sponsor's exemption — he missed the cut, but the course he couldn't crack as a teenager is the one that now bears his name as host.
Riviera's newest chapter looks forward rather than back: in 2028, the course will host golf's return to the Los Angeles Olympics, staging the men's and women's individual stroke-play competitions along with a new mixed-team event. A canyon course built for members in 1927 will, a century later, host the world.
Museum-quality Riviera Country Club map art, traced from real course data — every bunker, green, and fairway. Hogan's Alley, host of the Genesis Invitational and the 2028 Olympic golf competitions. Four designs, six sizes, or personalized with your own round photo.
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