Cypress Point Club

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|image = View From Clubhouse to 16 - Flickr - schnaars.jpg

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|caption=View of 16th green from clubhouse in 2004

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|location = Pebble Beach, California

|establishment = {{start date and age|1928}}

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|type = Private

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|designer1 = Alister MacKenzie and
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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.{{cite web|url=https://www.golf.com/photos/top-50-holes-united-states |title=The 50 Best Holes In The U.S |work=Golf.com |date=November 19, 2013}}{{cite web|url=https://www.golf.com/photos/best-18-holes-golf |title=Best 18 golf holes |work=Golf.com |date=September 20, 2012}}{{cite web|url=https://www.golfdigest.com/gallery/the-18-undisputed-unchallenged-scientifically-factual-best-golf-holes-in-the-world#2 |title=The 18 undisputed, unchallenged, scientifically-factual best golf holes in the world |work=Golf Digest |date= |accessdate=April 6, 2020}}{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2016/05/10/golf/worlds-best-par-3-golf-holes/index.html |title=Golf's best par 3 holes on the planet |work=CNN |date=May 8, 2018}}

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.Routing the Golf Course: The Art & Science That Forms the Golf Journey, Forrest L. Richardson

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 {{convert|230|yd|adj=on}} tee shot over the Pacific to a mid-sized green guarded by strategically placed bunkers.{{cite web|url=http://www.montereypeninsulagolf.com/Cypress+Point+Club |title=Cypress Point Club |work=MontereyPeninsulaGolf.com |accessdate=March 6, 2012}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=c95YAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gPcDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5946%2C2261415 |work=Spokane Daily Chronicle |location=(Washington) |agency=Associated Press |title=Toughest golf hole stymies great in Crosby's Open play |date=January 10, 1958 |page=12}}

Cypress Point Club was ranked #2 on Golf Magazine's 2011 List of the Top 100 Golf Courses in the World{{cite web |url=http://www.golf.com/courses-and-travel/course-rankings/world |title=Golf Magazine's Top 100 Courses in the World |access-date=June 27, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819102626/http://www.golf.com/courses-and-travel/course-rankings/world |archive-date=August 19, 2013 |url-status=dead }} and #5 on Golf Digest's 2011–12 list of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses.[http://www.golfdigest.com/golf-courses/2011-05/100-greatest-golf-courses Golf Digest's 2011-12 America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses]

The golf course is considered one of the most exclusive in the world.{{Cite web|title=The incredibly unlikely story of how one golfer got onto ultra-private Cypress Point|url=https://www.golfdigest.com/story/the-incredibly-unlikely-story-of-how-one-golfer-got-onto-ultra-private-cypress-point|access-date=2021-11-09|website=Golf Digest|language=en}} Non-members require the invitation of a member to play.

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.{{cite news|last1=Diaz|first1=Jaime|title=Cypress Point Drops PGA Tour Event Instead of Changing Its Rules|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/18/sports/cypress-point-drops-pga-tour-event-instead-of-changing-its-rules.html|accessdate=February 11, 2017|work=The New York Times|date=September 18, 1990}}{{cite news |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1997/02/10/offlimits-whats-stopping-cypress-point-from-rejoining-the-att |magazine=Sports Illustrated |last=Diaz |first=aime |title=Off-limits: What's stopping Cypress Point from rejoining the AT&T? |date=February 10, 1997 |page=G10}} Since then, Condoleezza Rice was admitted as a member of the club.{{Cite web|last=Ostler|first=Scott|date=2013-02-08|title=Condoleezza Rice changing face of golf|url=https://www.sfgate.com/sports/ostler/article/Condoleezza-Rice-changing-face-of-golf-4261900.php|access-date=2021-11-09|website=SFGATE|language=en-US}}

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.{{Cite web|last=Matuszewski|first=Erik|title=Cypress Point Still Has Presence (Unofficially) At Golf's Pebble Beach Pro-Am|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikmatuszewski/2016/02/11/cypress-point-still-has-presence-unofficially-at-golfs-pebble-beach-pro-am/|access-date=2021-11-09|website=Forbes|language=en}}

Scorecard

{{blue18 |name=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}}

{{white18|name=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}}

{{par18 |name=Men's | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 37 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 35 | 72 }}

{{handicap18 |name=Men's | 5 | 1 | 17| 7 | 11| 3 | 15| 9 | 13| 16| 4 | 2| 14 | 8 | 18 | 6| 10| 12 }}

{{red18 | |409|510|142|366|416|475|155|319|247|3039|480|401|310|285|323|119|208|355|296|2777|5816}}

{{par18 |name=Women's| 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 38 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 74 }}

{{handicap18 |name=Women's| 11| 1 | 17| 7 | 5 | 3 | 13| 9 | 15| 2 | 10| 8 | 14| 6 | 18| 16| 4 | 12 }}

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References

External links

[http://www.montereypeninsulagolf.com/Cypress+Point+Club Cypress Point Course Information] - with photos and interactive map

Category:1928 establishments in California

Category:Golf clubs and courses designed by Alister MacKenzie

Category:Golf clubs and courses in California

Category:Pebble Beach, California

Category:Sports venues completed in 1928

Category:Sports venues in Monterey County, California

Category:Walker Cup venues