This weekend will be an historic one for the Los Angeles Country Club, as the California course hosts a major for the first time in its history.
The par 70 course will host the US Open this weekend, the first major to take place in the Los Angeles area for nearly 30 years.
The Los Angeles Country Club (affectionately shortened to LACC) is set to present a unique challenge to the world's best golfers, as demonstrated by a brilliant video of Shane Lowry enjoying a joke at Viktor Hovland's expense as the two attempted to get to grips with the course.
Shane Lowry aims joke at Viktor Hovland as pair tackle LACC rough
The biggest challenge that LACC is set to present to the field at this weekend's US Open is more than likely going to be the course's deep rough. The official US Open Twitter account shared this video earlier this week, which displays just how tricky the rough will be to escape should players end up there over the course of the weekend.
Giving the people what they want.
Cheers to the unofficial start of #USOpen week! pic.twitter.com/r3zLWG0Ou7— U.S. Open (USGA) (@usopengolf) June 11, 2023
Naturally, those who have touched down in Los Angeles will be hoping to spend some time working in and around the rough to ensure they have a feel for how best to tackle it if a wayward shot lands them there.
Two of those were Irishman Shane Lowry and Norwegian Viktor Hovland.
On Tuesday afternoon, the DP World Tour Twitter account shared an amusing clip of Hovland attempting to chip his ball out of the rough. The ball barely travels, before nestling back in the rough. Hovland laughs off his mistake, before being left in stitches by Lowry confirming with the camera man that he captured video evidence of the incident.
.@ShaneLowryGolf: "Did you get that one?"
Unfortunately for you Viktor, we did 🫣#USOpen pic.twitter.com/wxW0fyqmSa— DP World Tour (@DPWorldTour) June 13, 2023
It's a hilarious video, but it also shows the challenge that will be presented to the star-studded field this weekend.
Hovland enters US Open weekend as one of the tournament favourites, after a stellar run of form that has seen him finish in the top ten of both majors so far this year, including a T2 finish at the PGA Championship last month. He also won the Memorial Tournament in early June, making him one of the most in-form players in the field - a victory this weekend would be his first ever major.
2019 Open Champion Shane Lowry, on the other hand, will be hoping to continue his consistency at the major championships, having a top five finish in a major in three of the last four years. He will be joined in the US Open field by fellow Irishmen Rory McIlroy, Matthew McClean, Seamus Power, and Padraig Harrington - who is competing in his first US Open since 2013.
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