Cypress Point Club is a private golf club located in Pebble Beach, California, at the northern end of the Central Coast. Its single 18-hole course has been named as one of the finest in golf, best known for a series of dramatic holes along the Pacific Ocean.[3][4][5][6]

History

The course was designed in 1928 by golf course designer Alister MacKenzie, collaborating with fellow golf course architect Robert Hunter. It opened on August 11 that year.[7]

Golf Course

Set in coastal dunes, the course's front nine enter the Del Monte forest, reemerging on the rocky coastline for the back nine. The signature hole is #16, which requires a 230-yard (210 m) tee shot over the Pacific to a mid-sized green guarded by strategically placed bunkers.[8][9]

Cypress Point Club was ranked #2 on Golf Magazine's 2011 List of the Top 100 Golf Courses in the World[10] and #5 on Golf Digest's 2011–12 list of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses.[11]

The golf course is considered one of the most exclusive in the world.[12] Non-members require the invitation of a member to play.[12]

PGA Tour

From 1947 through 1990 Cypress Point was on the PGA Tour as part of the multi-course AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, founded by entertainer Bing Crosby. It was dropped from the rotation because it had no black members and refused to admit one to comply with the tour's anti-discrimination guidelines.[13][14] Since then, Condoleezza Rice was admitted as a member of the club.[15]

While no longer part of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, many of the players continue to visit the course in the week leading up to the tournament.[16]

Scorecard

Cypress Point Club
Tee Rating/Slope 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Out 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 In Total
Championship 73.1 / 141 420 549 156 383 491 521 170 369 289 3348 476 440 404 394 393 135 233 386 343 3204 6552
Regular 72.1 / 139 407 535 151 370 472 509 159 342 283 3228 476 427 397 344 384 120 218 374 326 3066 6249
Par Men's 4 5 3 4 5 5 3 4 4 37 5 4 4 4 4 3 3 4 4 35 72
SI Men's 5 1 17 7 11 3 15 9 13 16 4 2 14 8 18 6 10 12
Red 409 510 142 366 416 475 155 319 247 3039 480 401 310 285 323 119 208 355 296 2777 5816
Par Women's 5 5 3 4 5 5 3 4 4 38 5 5 3 4 4 3 4 4 4 36 74
SI Women's 11 1 17 7 5 3 13 9 15 2 10 8 14 6 18 16 4 12
Source:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Course Rating and Slope Database™ - Cypress Point Club". USGA. Retrieved 15 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Cypress Point Club". Northern California Golf Association. Retrieved 16 January 2021.
  3. ^ "The 50 Best Holes In The U.S". Golf.com. 19 November 2013.
  4. ^ "Best 18 golf holes". Golf.com. 20 September 2012.
  5. ^ "The 18 undisputed, unchallenged, scientifically-factual best golf holes in the world". Golf Digest. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  6. ^ "Golf's best par 3 holes on the planet". CNN. 8 May 2018.
  7. ^ Routing the Golf Course: The Art & Science That Forms the Golf Journey, Forrest L. Richardson
  8. ^ "Cypress Point Club". MontereyPeninsulaGolf.com. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
  9. ^ "Toughest golf hole stymies great in Crosby's Open play". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). Associated Press. 10 January 1958. p. 12.
  10. ^ "Golf Magazine's Top 100 Courses in the World". Archived from the original on 19 August 2013. Retrieved 27 June 2012.
  11. ^ Golf Digest's 2011-12 America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses
  12. ^ a b "The incredibly unlikely story of how one golfer got onto ultra-private Cypress Point". Golf Digest. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  13. ^ Diaz, Jaime (18 September 1990). "Cypress Point Drops PGA Tour Event Instead of Changing Its Rules". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
  14. ^ Diaz, aime (10 February 1997). "Off-limits: What's stopping Cypress Point from rejoining the AT&T?". Sports Illustrated. p. G10.
  15. ^ Ostler, Scott (8 February 2013). "Condoleezza Rice changing face of golf". SFGATE. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  16. ^ Matuszewski, Erik. "Cypress Point Still Has Presence (Unofficially) At Golf's Pebble Beach Pro-Am". Forbes. Retrieved 9 November 2021.


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