The word of the week at Los Angeles Country Club: barranca.
Lined with sand and dotted with native grasses and ball-entangling plants, the barranca at LACC winds through most of the first nine holes and part of the back nine, as well.
Use it in a sentence: "The barranca down below where the bunker is, it is very bad," Collin Morikawa said when asked how he might approach the short par-4 sixth, a hole with options. Walking through this natural-looking, brown-greenish landscape hardly feels like being in the heart of modern-day LA. But it's the contrast of the course's features set against the skyscrapers and Beverly Hills glitz on the horizon that makes LACC one-of-a-kind.
"You can get a very bad lie, but you can also get a lie that's all right to where you can hack it out to the middle of the green," Morikawa said. Some areas inside the barrancas are marked as red-lined hazards, but others aren't, meaning a drop from an unplayable lie is still only a one-shot penalty, but with no guarantee the lie that results from a drop will be pure.
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