by TV cameras have a way of smoothing out the quirks of a golf course. As our photographer Cameron Hurdus walked around the Genesis Invitational earlier this week, he documented some of the subtle oddities that make George Thomas’s design at Riviera Country Club so memorable and fascinating.
The abruptness of the slope behind the fifth green:
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The slope behind the fifth green at Riviera
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The slope behind the fifth green at Riviera
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The slope behind the fifth green at Riviera, with the sixth tee to the left
The back-to-front steepness of the sixth green (which even Cameron had trouble capturing):
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The sixth green at Riviera
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The sixth green at Riviera
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The sixth green at Riviera
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The sixth green at Riviera
The chaotic undulations of the seventh and eighth fairways:
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The seventh fairway at Riviera
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The seventh fairway at Riviera
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The eighth fairway at Riviera
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The eighth fairway at Riviera
The size of the ridge guarding the seventh green:
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The ridge in front of the seventh green at Riviera
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The ridge in front of the seventh green at Riviera
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The ridge in front of the seventh green at Riviera
The shallowness of the 14th green, which places a premium on distance control on this long par 3:
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The 14th green at Riviera
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The 14th green at Riviera
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The 14th green at Riviera
The severity of the channel bisecting the 15th green:
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The fifteenth green at Riviera
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The fifteenth green at Riviera
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The fifteenth green at Riviera
How much of the putting surface the front bunkers obscure from the 16th tee:
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The 16th hole at Riviera
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The 16th hole at Riviera
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The 16th green at Riviera, with the sixth in the background
The wooden frame around the tee boxes, which keeps the kikuyu rough from invading the overseeded Bermuda of the tees:
