LACC making rules exceptions as it host US Open

Los Angeles Country Club has a strict set of "customs and traditions" with rules being relaxed while they host the US Open with patrons being allowed to wear shorts. 

MAKING AN EXCEPTION: The Los Angeles Country Club is hosting the US Open for the first time and in doing so making some exceptions to their strict membership rules. Pic: Harry How/Getty Images

Ray Milland, the Welsh-born actor and film director, expressed an interest in joining the Los Angeles Country Club back in the 1940s when he was under contract with Paramount Pictures. At that stage of his career, Milland was no leading man, the perception being that he possessed “a ready smile and an agreeable disposition … never regarded as an actor capable of handling a serious part.” 

At LACC, however, Milland was in the industry, and that was enough for his membership application to be denied.