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[QUOTE="jncuse, post: 4688928, member: 1969"]
The Los Angeles Country Club has already been awarded the 2039 US Open (not Riviera).  That is what I meant.  Apparently the USGA has wanted to host the Open here for decades, but the membership has always declined.   Perhaps they will come to an agreement to void the 2039.   Who knows.

They will need to make changes -- to me the most simplistic would be shrinking the fairway sizes on a number of the holes.   The yardage total itself is not too bad.    Fairways are much too easy to hit -- the rough is punitive (off the fairway and around the green), but when you are constantly playing from the fairway these players are much too good not to ring up a ton of Greens in Regulation and generally avoid trouble.

I guess the real question is why didn't they forecast this issue to begin with.
The US Open does seem to like these "linksy" look courses with very little trees or a lot of sandy / deserted areas.

You can tweak with courses quite a bit too make them harder for majors.   I believe Torrey Pines, grows out the rough and makes the fairways narrower for the US Open.   Even St. Jude (Southwind) plays a lot tougher now when they ramped up its importance on the schedule from a low tier event to a WGC / now playoff event.
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