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Cypress Point Club

Cypress Point Club
View of 16th green from clubhouse in 2004
Cypress Point Club is located in the United States
Cypress Point Club
Location in the United States
Cypress Point Club is located in California
Cypress Point Club
Location in California
Map
Club information
Coordinates36°34′48″N 121°58′26″W / 36.58°N 121.974°W / 36.58; -121.974
LocationPebble Beach, California
Elevation80 feet (24 m)
Established1928; 97 years ago (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]

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

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The course was designed in 1929 by golf course designer Alister MacKenzie, collaborating with fellow golf course architect Robert Hunter. It opened on August 11 that year.[7]

The Cypress Point clubhouse was designed by George Washington Smith of Santa Barbara and decorated by artist and Member Francis McComas and Frances Elkins. It also opened in 1929 and is mostly unchanged from the original design. The Club has 250 Members from all over the world. Over the years it has been wonderfully served by a succession of Golf Professionals, from Henry Puget to Jim Langley and now by Casey Reamer. [8]

Golf Course

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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.[9][10]

Cypress Point Club was ranked #1 on Top100GolfCourses.com list of best golf courses in the US[11] and #3 on Golf Digest's 2025 list of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses.[12]

The golf course is considered one of the most exclusive in the world.[13] Non-members require the invitation of a member to play.[13]

PGA Tour

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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 non-white members and refused to admit one to comply with the tour's anti-discrimination guidelines.[14][15] Since then, Condoleezza Rice was admitted as a member of the club.[16]

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.[17]

Scorecard

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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

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  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 – The Alister MacKenzie Society". Retrieved 14 August 2025.
  9. ^ "Cypress Point Club". MontereyPeninsulaGolf.com. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
  10. ^ "Toughest golf hole stymies great in Crosby's Open play". Spokane Daily Chronicle. (Washington). Associated Press. 10 January 1958. p. 12.
  11. ^ "USA Ranking | Top 100 Golf Courses". www.top100golfcourses.com. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
  12. ^ "USA Ranking | Top 100 Golf Courses". www.top100golfcourses.com. Retrieved 14 August 2025.
  13. ^ a b "The incredibly unlikely story of how one golfer got onto ultra-private Cypress Point". Golf Digest. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  14. ^ Diaz, Jaime (18 September 1990). "Cypress Point Drops PGA Tour Event Instead of Changing Its Rules". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
  15. ^ Diaz, aime (10 February 1997). "Off-limits: What's stopping Cypress Point from rejoining the AT&T?". Sports Illustrated. p. G10.
  16. ^ Ostler, Scott (8 February 2013). "Condoleezza Rice changing face of golf". SFGATE. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
  17. ^ Matuszewski, Erik. "Cypress Point Still Has Presence (Unofficially) At Golf's Pebble Beach Pro-Am". Forbes. Retrieved 9 November 2021.
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