I have a friend who lives in Brentwood on the west side of Los Angeles between Beverly

Hills and Santa Monica.

He is a little pool house in his backyard and I stay there whenever I come to LA, kind

of like Cato Kaelin if you're memory for O.J. Simpson as a tarot guy goes back that far.

Anyway, my friend's street dead ends on San Vicente Boulevard, one of the central east

west corridors in LA.

And on the other side of San Vicente is this absolutely gorgeous golf course.

One of the many private country clubs that LA is famous for.

If you drive down Wilshire Boulevard into Beverly Hills, 10 minutes east of Brentwood, you

go right past Los Angeles Country Club, which costs maybe a quarter of a million dollars

just to join.

That is if they're leaving Considio replication.

There's Bel Air Country Club just north of UCLA, which might be the most beautiful golf

course in the country.

Hillcrast, off Pico, Wilshire Country Club in Hancock Park, I could go on.

They're everywhere.

Vast, gorgeous, and private.

The one near my friend's house is called Brentwood Country Club and it has a tall, chain link

fence around it, which goes almost all the way out to the street, leaving just this narrow,

rocky dirt track.

There's no sidewalk.

And since there aren't a lot of places to run in Los Angeles, tons of people run around

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