Country Club,” says an entertainment-world golfer. “What I think is funny is that all of us who drive in and out of Beverly Hills drive right past L.A.

A bastion of bankers and corporate execs, LACC remains hands-down the most clannish and is known for shunning entertainment types in general. The Wilshire Country Club and the Los Angeles Country Club historically did not admit Jewish members, who then formed Hillcrest Country Club and, later, Brentwood. But no matter how much money or influence they have, entertainment types still find it nearly impossible to get into certain places. Getting in takes big bucks (the top initiation fee, Riviera Country Club’s, is a whopping $250,000) and good words from powerful friends even Mark Wahlberg needed to make calls to get into Riviera. It’s a tightly controlled world of acceptances, rejections and wait lists. The fairways of the city’s private golf clubs are also where Hollywood’s boys club - yes, it is 99 percent boys - is most unabashedly on display.

In a town where relationships are everything, Los Angeles’ ultra-exclusive golf clubs reign as some of the top spots for power-networking.

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