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The Riviera Country Club is an 18-hole private golf course in Pacific Palisades, California.

Designed by George C. Thomas. It plays 7,366 yards from the Black tees, rated 75.6/137 (checked 2026-08-14).

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18
holes
71
par
7,366
yards (tips)
137
slope (black)
The shape of the round · Black teespublished figures only
HOLE ORDER — BLACK TEES523491454256439189428436440335603430458202463186596471152434435463748494104115124134143154163175184PAROUT 3,656 YDSIN 3,744 YDSFIRST NINESECOND NINE
The published card in playing order, 18 holes with the two nines split — hole number under each bar, its par below that.

The course

designer
George C. Thomas reported
access
private
address
1250 Capri Dr, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272, USA
phone
310-454-6591
elevation
380 ft derived
opened
1927

34.04983, -118.50131 — open on OpenStreetMap →

The course, from above

This map shows all 18 holes. 26 mapped features sit close to more than one hole and are drawn with the nearer one.

244 traced features across 7 layers for The Riviera Country Club, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery.

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244 traced features across 7 layers for The Riviera Country Club, drawn over NAIP 2022 aerial imagery. The map itself needs JavaScript; the geometry is a plain GeoJSON file either way.

18
Holes
30
Fairways
61
Bunkers
18
Greens
60
Tee pads
7,400yds
Black tees
603yds
Longest hole
186yds
Shortest hole

Imported from OpenStreetMap, edges unchecked · USDA NAIP 2022-05-11

Tees & ratings

Ratingsopen datachecked 2026-08-14

All 7 tee sets par, yardage, course rating, slope — the full table

Sorted by Yards, descending. 7 rows.

BlackM71736675.613736563744
BlueM71704074.613534763564
WhiteM71652672.213032723254
GreenM71613670.712630603076
GoldF74contested71572574.413629262799
GoldM72contested71572570.012429262799
ForwardF74contested71534872.113226812667

Every figure as published except Card par (derived), which is summed from the card below and shown only where a published figure is contested; a blank cell elsewhere is one nobody publishes. Front 9 and Back 9 are summed from the per-hole yardages on the scorecard.

The Gold and Forward tees publish a par the scorecard below does not add up to. Both figures are published and nothing we hold settles which one a round plays to, so the Par column keeps the published figure, marked contested, and each tee's own par row from the card below is summed beside it, marked derived.

Scorecard — every published tee

Scorecardopen datachecked 2026-08-14

Hole 123456789101112131415161718 Total
Par 544343444454434354 71
Black 523491454256439189428436440335603430458202463186596471 7,366
Blue 503471434236419169408416420315583410438182443166576451 7,040
White 497438405223408150370375406301509367406159430148512422 6,526
Green 466408371193390142345350395261493325380153415138500411 6,136
Gold 456391364186386133314310386245454317354142411125420331 5,725
Forward 412391290140330133314285386210454284290142411125420331 5,348
Handicap 171795151113316108618214124

The Studio

The Studio can't plan The Riviera Country Club hole by hole yet.

We hold its scorecard and 244 traced features, but not a model of every green, which a plan aims at.

It plans 4,579 courses hole by hole today, and it charts your bag anywhere.

  • The approach, planned A Studio approach map on the aerial photo: a lob wedge aimed at the island green, its spread drawn as a dashed ring over the water, and the side it most often misses. Example from another course: hole 15, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • The green, from LiDAR A Studio green view on the aerial photo: arrows for the slope a LiDAR survey measured, the area a cup could be cut, and the safer side to miss. Example from another course: hole 15, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale
  • Every shot, tee to green A Studio plan on the aerial photo of a desert par 4: the driver off the tee and a 7-iron into the green between the bunkers, each shot with its landing spread drawn as a dashed ring. Example from another course: hole 2, Resort tee, Stadium Course at TPC Scottsdale

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Book nearby

The Riviera Country Club states private access, so there is no tee time here to book. The nearest courses that state access you can book: Heroes Golf Course (2.3 mi, public) · Rancho Park Golf Course (4.4 mi, municipal)

Measured against comparable courses

How hard and how long this course plays against comparable courses — never how good it is.

FigureThis courseIn CaliforniaNationwideAmong its peers
Longest7,366 yds20th of 889255th of 12,0251st of 158 in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area · 100th of 2,954 private courses · 255th of 9,017 18-hole regulation courses
Toughest testslope 137=137th of 750=1,696th of 8,710=10th of 134 in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area · =766th of 2,300 private courses · =1,658th of 7,089 18-hole regulation courses
Hardest from the tipsrating 75.6=22nd of 685=257th of 7,615=3rd of 119 in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area · =120th of 2,143 private courses · =256th of 7,034 18-hole regulation courses
Widest tee spread2,018 yds between tees156th of 857=2,157th of 11,52328th of 145 in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area · =668th of 2,885 private courses · =2,114th of 8,962 18-hole regulation courses
Oldestopened 1927=83rd of 768=1,422nd of 9,368=23rd of 145 in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area · =722nd of 2,418 private courses · =1,066th of 7,001 18-hole regulation courses
Highest above sea level380 ft derived =394th of 917=7,864th of 12,43784th of 169 in the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA metro area · =1,658th of 3,026 private courses · =5,613th of 9,106 18-hole regulation courses

A published figure is compared only against the courses that publish it too, which is why the totals differ from row to row — a state's length field is the courses with a scorecard, not the courses in the state. Height above sea level is the exception: we derive it from a coordinate, so its field is very nearly every course we render. Ties share an ordinal and are marked =. How this is computed →

What's on this page

In progress4 of 6 built

4 of 6 parts of this course page are built, and we're filling in the rest.

  • Scorecard, built.Par and yardage for every hole, from 7 sets of tees.
  • Course rating and slope, built.Rated from 7 sets of tees.
  • Course map, built.All 18 greens drawn, with the fairways, bunkers and water, over aerial imagery.
  • Per-hole distances, built.Every hole is traced, so carries and distances to the front, middle and back of each green are measured along the line you actually play.
  • Green contours, not built yet.We haven't built the green contours for this course yet.
  • Course details, partly built.6 of 7 background details — we don't hold the grass on the greens.

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Sources

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Location and identity seeded from OpenStreetMap — © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Last checked 2026-08-14. Where each figure came from is stated beside it, above.

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Straight-line distance from this course's coordinates, within 60 miles — not driving distance, and it crosses state lines where the nearest courses are over one.

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