The first stretch of Muirfield Road was laid out in 1920 next to the Wilshire Country Club, which was founded a year earlier. The fairway-adjacent street was thus named after the celebrated Muirfield links in Gullane, Scotland, home of “The Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers” since 1891. According to an unusually candid promotion for the Wilshire Country Club, landowner G. Allan Hancock (1875-1965) had suffered a nervous breakdown while overseeing his holdings in Hawaii, took up golf upon his doctors’ orders, then decided to lease out his property for a golf course as an escape for fellow stressed-out businessmen. Duffers take note: St Andrews Place, born near the former site of the Los Angeles Country Club, was named after another famous Scottish course.
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