Braemar Country Club: Guldhal Course

Braemar Country Club's Guldahl routing pairs two of the club's three nine-hole layouts designed by Ted Robinson Sr., part of the 27-hole facility in Tarzana, California that opened in 1959 with the U.S. Open nine and added the Masters and Western nines in the 1960s. The three nines are named for the major championships won by Ralph Guldahl, the club's longtime head professional. Invited rebranded the facility as Mulholland Hills Country Club.

Braemar Country Club was founded in 1959 in the hills above Tarzana, in the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles. The club's 27 holes of golf were designed by Ted Robinson Sr., among the most prolific California golf architects of the second half of the twentieth century. The original U.S. Open nine opened in 1959; the Masters nine followed in 1963, and the Western nine later extended the club to its current 27-hole footprint.

The three nine-hole courses are named for the three major championships that Ralph Guldahl won in the late 1930s — the U.S. Open in 1937 and 1938 and the Masters in 1939, along with his 1936, 1937, and 1938 Western Open titles (the Western was then widely regarded as a major). Guldahl's place at Braemar is the reason for the course naming. After winning 16 PGA Tour events and three majors between 1936 and 1940, he stepped away from competitive play and, in 1961, became Braemar's head professional.

Guldahl served in that role for twenty years, giving the club a direct link to among the most dominant American players of the late-1930s and making Braemar one of the few California clubs to be permanently branded with the championship record of its house professional. Braemar's three nines have historically been paired in different combinations, and various sources have referred to the combined U.S. Open and Western routing as the "Guldahl" course. All three of the original nines were Ted Robinson Sr. designs, laid out over the rolling hill terrain north of Mulholland Drive and framed by California native oaks.

In the 2020s, Invited (formerly ClubCorp) committed more than $22 million to a comprehensive renovation of the club, engaging World Golf Hall of Fame member Lanny Wadkins and architect Kurt Bowman to reimagine 18 of the 27 holes. As part of that investment, the club was rebranded as Mulholland Hills Country Club, though the Guldahl/championship nine-hole naming convention remains associated with the property's earlier Braemar era.