What Is The Riviera Country Club Course Record?

Riviera Country Club is one of the USA's most iconic venues, dating back to 1926 and playing host to the Los Angeles Open for decades.

The club is a staple of the PGA Tour's West Coast swing to start each year and has seen legends of the game crowned champions. Ben Hogan, Sam Snead, Byron Nelson, Tom Watson, Nick Faldo, Johnny Miller, Phil Mickelson, Fred Couples and Jon Rahm are just some of the names to have won around Riviera, but what is the LA venue's course record? And who holds it?

That goes to Ted Tryba, who shot a 10-under-par 61 in round three of the 1999 Nissan Open. The Pennsylvanian, who graduated from Ohio State University, carded nine birdies and an eagle in the third round of the '99 event, where he needed a birdie on the 18th to shoot a 59.

He settled for bogey and a 61 after over-shooting the green and failing to get up-and-down.

It gave him the 54-hole lead but he eventually finished T2nd alongside Tiger Woods and Davis Love III.

Tryba's course record 61 beat the previous record of 62 held by Larry Mize, Fred Couples and Kenny Perry.

The American won twice on the PGA Tour, first at the 1995 Anheuser-Busch Golf Classic at Kingsmill Golf Club in Virginia and then at the 1999 St. Jude Classic at TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee.

The 36-hole scoring record at Riviera was broken in 2022 by Joaquin Niemann, who opened 63-63 to find himself 16-under-par after two rounds. He followed that with a 68 to also break the 54-hole record at 194 before going on to win the tournament.

His final round of 71 left him on 265 strokes, which came up one shy of Lanny Wadkins' 264 72-hole record set in 1985.