 This was the first major championship played in the western United States; it was originally scheduled to be played in Santa Barbara.The PGA Championship returned to the west a dozen years later in 1941 in Colorado.In the Cheviot Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, 
Hillcrest later hosted the Los Angeles Open on the PGA Tour in 1932 and 1942, the latter won by Ben Hogan in an 18-hole playoff.