My mistake, David...thanks for pointing it out. I guess I didn't see that one in going through all the years.
You didn't see the second tournament on the short list (1922-36) that you posted? You were in such a hurry to stretch some irrelevancy beyond all reasonableness (highest qualifying score implies best course???) that you didn't even bother to get your facts right. Typical.
Also typical are your attempts to undermine and ridicule Tom MacWood's list in defense of your asinine "factual" statement about Cobbs. You even have the nerve to call these courses "rudimentary," as if Ross, MacKenzie, Tillinghast, Thomas, Bell, Egan, etc. were building rudimentary courses in the 1920s and 30s. There are some very good courses on this list, Mike. It is hardly a catch all. Just because you've played a few listed courses 80 years (and who knows what changes) after the fact, you are by no means an expert regarding the quality of public courses that existed at the time.
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I couldn't find anything on Westwood. Is that Montebello Park? I'm adding both Sunset Fields courses; they were both top notch. Originally I'd thought they had been private before going public (like Fox Hills), but I confirmed they began as public courses. The Harding course at Griffith Park was the course I was including. The first 18 at Pasadena was the superior course from all accounts. Bell added 9 holes in 1930, which was referred to as a practice nine, and then some point another nine was added. I'm not sure when or by whom.
"Westwood Public Golf Course" (that was its name) opened in the late 1920's (fall of 1927) but like the Sunset Fields courses which opened around the same time, it is NLE. As you know, economics and demographics took a heavy toll on California golf in the 30's and 40's. Westwood was a privately owned "pay as you go" public course, par 71 (6120 yards) over a rolling site between Pico and Santa Monica Blvd, reportedly just under 200 acres. Its neighbors were Fox Studio to the West, LACC to the North, Hillcrest CC to the South, Rancho Park to the Southwest, and Beverly Hills High School to the East. Today the site is Century City.
Hard to tell how good it was, but it certainly had the makings of a good course -- plenty of rolling land well suited for golf and a quality designer. Behr, of course, was delighted with the course and thought that every hole bubbled over with character. Reportedly, the bunkers were made to look as if they were formed by nature and the greens blended in with the surrounds.
At the time, one could have golfed from Sunset Blvd to just north of what is now the Santa Monica Freeway, golfing from course to course across LACC North, LACC South, Westwood Public, Hillcrest Country Club, Rancho Park, and California Country Club (plus two par three courses.)