Cypress Point Club

Cypress Point Club

View of 16th green from clubhouse in 2004
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Club information
Coordinates	36°34′48″N121°58′26″W / 36.58°N 121.974°W / 36.58; -121.974
Location	Pebble Beach, California
Elevation	80 feet (24 m)
Established	1928;97 years ago (1928)
Type	Private
Total holes	18
Designed by	Alister MacKenzie and Robert Hunter
Par	72
Length	6,554 yards (5,993 m)
Course rating	73.1
Slope rating	141 [1]
Course record	63 – 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

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

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

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

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

1. "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. "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.

External links

• Cypress Point Course Information - with photos and interactive map