A US Open where Hollywood actors weren't allowed to compete

In the heart of Beverly Hills, close to the Playboy Mansion, Los Angeles Country Club was not one of those clubs where the were excited to watch the stars of world golf play.

Much less that a crowd far below the 1,500 shareholders in net worth would invade a course that many people in Los Angeles would be unable to locate on a map.

Hidden among luxury homes and sycamore trees, you have to go to Google Maps to locate it.

However, 83 years after Lawson Little, the golfer who played with 26 clubs in his bag and was responsible for limiting the number of clubs to 14 in 1938, won the 1940 Los Angeles Open, the club will host a major for the first time. The US Open, the third major of the year.

Between Little and these days, only a few university tournaments and some amateur competitions have been held.

Only about 8,000 spectators will be able to enjoy it. Of the 22,000 season tickets sold - the lowest number in the last 50 years - almost 14,000 will go to sponsors.

The change came about in 2015. The club reached an agreement with the USGA, the United States Golfers' Association, after submitting it to an internal vote with 90 percent .

It had always been voted down at a club where caps were required to be worn with the visor forward and shorts were not allowed.

Furthermore, many parts of the clubhouse had to be entered in a jacket and tie. Hollywood actors were banned.

"There's a funny story with Randolph Scott," David Pavoni recounts in a book.

"He wanted to become a member and when he was refused hip he said: "I'm not an actor and I have 50 films to prove it."

Bing Crosby, Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, James Stewart and Fred Astaire made it when the club relaxed this policy.

included Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, who later gave his name to a terrace, and the club's eventual president, Charles Older, the judge who ordered the death of Charles Manson.

For the US Open, Bermuda shorts and mobile phones will be allowed, as an exception.

The USGA has conditioned a course with a monstrous rough and Bermuda grass, thicker, on a par 70 course of 7,423 yards and five par 3s as disparate as the very short 15th and the endless 263-metre 11th hole, softened somewhat by the elevated tee, but protected by three bunkers.

In this scenario, the US Open once again places players with a controlled swing on the favorites' list, who will be able to take advantage of fairways that are wider than usual in this type of tournament.

The names of Scottie Scheffler, the world number one, Jon Rahm and Brooks Koepka, winners of the Masters and the PGA, respectively, are on the list.