'This started as a dream. Now it’s a thrill,' says Dick Shortz, who led the effort to bring the U.S. Open to Los Angeles Country Club for the first time.
this week and surveyed the remodeled clubhouse and double-decker chalets running down the first fairway.Shortz, a longtime LACC member and past president, led the effort to bringto the club for the first time, helping convince a membership otherwise entirely happy to fly under the radar, just as it had for decades.
It wasn’t a virtuoso performance, as Shortz is quick to note. There were many people behind the effort, among them Don Rice, the late John Weaver and John Chulick, who along with Shortz is co-chair of the club’s U.S. Open committee.Tom Gardner, director of golf at LACC, got the call to play in U.S. Open after failing to qualify and had a big day with club pro Rory Sweeney on the bag.
But no one was as singularly focused as the quiet and friendly Shortz about bringing the major championship to the club for the first time — and back to the city for the first time in 75 years.Austin BeutnerThis is the culmination of more than a decade of work, during which time LACC played host to“Change doesn’t always happen quickly,” Shortz said. “There was concern among some members about having the eyes of the world on us.
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