Fred Couples can tell you some Riviera Country Club history

Couples has written some of that history. A two-time winner at Riviera, he is in the field of the Northern Trust Open at 53, playing in the L.A. tournament for a record 31st time.Ben Hogan bought the fairway to heaven, Humphrey Bogart no longer stands pickled and perched beneath the sycamore on No. 12 and member Jim Murray isn't around to describe Riviera Country Club, as he once did, as "like a coquettish woman who winks at you behind her fan."