The Riviera Country Club of Los Angeles had an unexpected visitor on Friday.
The video published on social networks Friday afternoon shows that a small plane has made an emergency landing on the golf course of the historic club in the Pacific palisades. While landing was bumpy, the plane and its occupants seemed to be unharmed.
By Golf weekThe plane was to land at Santa Monica airport, a few kilometers southeast of Riviera. The first stakeholders in the Los Angeles fire service and the Santa Monica fire service would have arrived on the scene shortly after.
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The landings of golf courses are not uncommon with planes that must make emergency landings in urban areas, due to their open land and their relative lack of people. One of the most famous cases of this was when actor Harrison Ford made a much more rough landing on Penmar Golf RaceRight next to the same Santa Monica airport.
Friday landing was not the worst airplane incident of the day in the Los year A different plane crashed into the fence after exceeding the track at Fullerton airport.
Riviera Country Club is the annual site of Genesis Invitational de la Tiger Woods Foundation and welcomed three majors with the US Open from 1948, the 1983 PGA championship and the 1995 PGA championship, as well as the 2017 US amateur.
The club should be one of the most publicized in the world in the coming years, as a golf site for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, as well as US Open and 2026 US Women's Open. Hopefully planes will not be a problem for them.
