Cypress Point Club
Cypress Point Club is a private golf club in California. The club has a single 18-hole course, one of eight on the Monterey peninsula near Monterey, California. The course is well known for a series of dramatic holes that play along the Pacific Ocean that have been named as some of the best in golf.[1][2][3][4]
| Club information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Pebble Beach, California |
| Established | 1928 |
| Type | Private |
| Total holes | 18 |
| Designed by | Alister MacKenzie, Robert Hunter (author) |
| Par | 72 |
| Length | 6524 |
| Course rating | 72.4 |
The Cypress Point Club course opened on August 11, 1928. Byington Ford, Roger D. Lapham, and Marion Hollins were trailblazers for the project.[5] The course was designed in 1928 by golf course designer Alister MacKenzie, collaborating with fellow golf course architect Robert Hunter.
It was used for the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am until 1991, but was dropped from the rotation because it does not allow black members, a fact still true today.[6]
Set in coastal dunes, the course enters the Del Monte forest during the front nine and reemerges to the rocky coastline for the finishing holes. The signature hole is #16, which requires a 231-yard tee shot over the Pacific to a mid-sized green guarded by strategically placed bunkers.[7]
Cypress Point Club was ranked #2 on Golf Magazine's 2011 List of the Top 100 Golf Courses in the World[8] and #5 on Golf Digest's 2011–12 list of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses.[9]
When playing Cypress Point, management requires all players to have caddies. Because there are only approximately 275 members, and only 30 of them "local", many of the tee times on the course are used by guests. On a typical day, the course sends out 8 groups, with the first starting at an early 7:00 tee time.
Course
| 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 | 72.4 / 136 | 421 | 548 | 163 | 384 | 493 | 518 | 168 | 363 | 292 | 3349 | 497 | 437 | 404 | 365 | 388 | 143 | 219 | 393 | 346 | 3175 | 6524 |
| Regular | 409 | 538 | 155 | 373 | 471 | 509 | 161 | 347 | 282 | 3245 | 480 | 428 | 397 | 343 | 382 | 127 | 219 | 382 | 329 | 3087 | 6332 | |
| Par | Men's | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 37 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 72 |
| Handicap | 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 |
| Handicap | Women's | 11 | 1 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 15 | 2 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 6 | 18 | 16 | 4 | 12 |
References
- "The 50 Best Holes In The U.S". Golf.com. November 19, 2013.
- "Best 18 golf holes". Golf.com. September 20, 2012.
- "The 18 undisputed, unchallenged, scientifically-factual best golf holes in the world". Golf Digest. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
- "Golf's best par 3 holes on the planet". CNN. May 8, 2018.
- Routing the Golf Course: The Art & Science That Forms the Golf Journey, Forrest L. Richardson
- Diaz, Jaime (September 18, 1990). "Cypress Point Drops PGA Tour Event Instead of Changing Its Rules". The New York Times. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
- "Cypress Point Club". MontereyPeninsulaGolf.com. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
- "Golf Magazine's Top 100 Courses in the World". Archived from the original on August 19, 2013. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
- Golf Digest's 2011-12 America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses