“There will be no easy par holes on the new course. There will be a great variety of shots for expert and beginner alike. It will surpass Ojai, Riviera or any other of my former courses. I expect it will be my last.” - George C. Thomas, Jr.

Remembered as a father figure who greeted golfers every Saturday morning on the putting green, Captain Thomas’ legacy will always be defined by his devotion to improving the Club’s golf courses. Upon completing the daring Bel-Air Country Club design in 1926 and the masterful Riviera Country Club in 1927, Thomas turned his attention to updating LACC’s two courses, noting that the time was right to “produce a test of golf with supreme diversity, but also one which would contain the latest developments in design and construction.”

He planned to take full advantage of the many wonderful natural features to give the courses a distinctly Southern California feel, but most of all, Thomas would inject much needed strategy that he believed was the “soul of the game.” Included in his renovated North layout was his revolutionary “courses within the course” concept of creating alternative tees and hole locations that Thomas saw as a revolutionary way to provide “supreme ‘variation” for member play. In the years since his passing,

Captain Thomas has become considered as one of the game’s master architects. While most of his courses have been altered, the bones of his renovated North Course remained very much intact, a tribute to the Club.