Cypress Point Club — Attraction in Pacific Grove

I really loooooove this place, this place like part of haven Alister MacKenzie & Robert Hunter (1929) / Jeff Markow (2004)

Glamorous Cypress Point, Alister Mackenzie’s masterpiece woven through cypress, sand dunes and jagged coastline, wasn’t always the darling of America’s 100 Greatest. Golf Digest demoted it to the Fifth Ten back in the early 1970s, saying, “It’s not surprising that good players might find Cypress Point wanting: it has several easy holes and a weak finisher.” Our panel has since changed its collective opinion. In the 2000s, member Sandy Tatum, the former USGA president who christened Cypress Point as the Sistine Chapel of golf, convinced the club not to combat technology by adding new back tees, but instead make a statement by celebrating its original architecture. So Cypress remains timeless, if short, its charm helped in part by superintendent Jeff Markow, who re-established Mackenzie’s unique bunkering with the help of old...

First, I have played a number of the top 20 golf courses in America, including Pine Valley which is generally number 1. I have to say, as much as I love the highly ranked courses across America; and love the Monterey/Carmel peninsula, I personally feel that walking this course is one of the greatest experiences I have had in golf. It's not just playing this course, but taking what the course architect did with the land. I have played it a couple of times and although I am a scratch golfer, my score didn't matter. I lived the moment of each shot and walking...

I used to Caddy at Pebble Beach, Cypress Point, Spyglass Hill and Spanish Bay for decades. Without question in my book Cypress Point is the best golfing experience in the World. It has it all, beautiful, well designed, perfect condition with a great greens crew, all on the best property a golf course could be on. It is a great sister course to Augusta National and The Olympic club. Maybe not progressive as some would like, and stuck in a time capsule, but I hope it never changes. It is what golf was meant to be. Some of my fondest memories are on...