Cypress Point Club

Cypress Point Club is a private golf club on the West Coast of the United States, along the Central Coast of California. The club has a single 18-hole course, one of eight on the Monterey Peninsula near Monterey. The course is well known for a series of dramatic holes along the Pacific Ocean that have been named as some of the best in golf.[3][4][5][6]

Cypress Point Club
View of 16th green from clubhouse in 2004
Club information
Location in the United States
Location in California
LocationPebble Beach, California
Elevation80 feet (24 m)
Established1928 (1928)
TypePrivate
Total holes18
Designed byAlister MacKenzie and
Robert Hunter
Par72
Length6,554 yards (5,993 m)
Course rating73.1
Slope rating141 [1]
Course record63 – Jim Langley, Ben Hogan,
         and others[2]

The course opened 93 years ago on August 11, 1928; Byington Ford, Roger D. Lapham, and Marion Hollins were trailblazers for the project.[7] The course was designed in 1928 by golf course designer Alister MacKenzie, collaborating with fellow golf course architect Robert Hunter.

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 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 Magazines 2011 List of the Top 100 Golf Courses in the World[10] and #5 on Golf Digests 2011–12 list of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses.[11]

When playing Cypress Point, management requires all players to have caddies. Because there are only approximately 275 members, and only thirty of them "local," many of the tee times on the course are used by guests. On a typical day, the course sends out eight groups, with the first starting at an early 7:00 a.m. tee time.

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.[12][13] Its replacement in the tournament, Poppy Hills, was received by the players with significantly less enthusiasm.[14][15]

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 4215481633844935181683632923349 49743740439538814321939334631756554
Regular 72.1 / 139 4095381553734715091613472823245 48042839734338212721938232930876332
Par Men's 45345534437 5444433443572
Handicap Men's 5117711315913 16421481861012
Red 4095101423664164751553192473039 48040131028532311920835529627775816
Par Women's 55345534438 5534434443674
Handicap Women's 1111775313915 21081461816412
Source:[1]

References
  1. "Course Rating and Slope Database™ - Cypress Point Club". USGA. Retrieved January 15, 2021.
  2. "Cypress Point Club". Northern California Golf Association. Retrieved January 16, 2021.
  3. "The 50 Best Holes In The U.S". Golf.com. November 19, 2013.
  4. "Best 18 golf holes". Golf.com. September 20, 2012.
  5. "The 18 undisputed, unchallenged, scientifically-factual best golf holes in the world". Golf Digest. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
  6. "Golf's best par 3 holes on the planet". CNN. May 8, 2018.
  7. Routing the Golf Course: The Art & Science That Forms the Golf Journey, Forrest L. Richardson
  8. "Cypress Point Club". MontereyPeninsulaGolf.com. Retrieved March 6, 2012.
  9. "Toughest golf hole stymies great in Crosby's Open play". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). Associated Press. January 10, 1958. p. 12.
  10. "Golf Magazine's Top 100 Courses in the World". Archived from the original on August 19, 2013. Retrieved June 27, 2012.
  11. Golf Digest's 2011-12 America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses
  12. Diaz, Jaime (September 18, 1990). "Cypress Point Drops PGA Tour Event Instead of Changing Its Rules". The New York Times. Retrieved February 11, 2017.
  13. Diaz, aime (February 10, 1997). "Off-limits: What's stopping Cypress Point from rejoining the AT&T?". Sports Illustrated. p. G10.
  14. "Poppy Hills perplexes pros". Eugene Register-Guard. (Oregon). Associated Press. February 1, 1991. p. 2B.
  15. Garrity, John (February 11, 1991). "The winner was a Zinger". Sports Illustrated. p. 50.
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