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Cypress Point Club

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Established
  
1928

Total holes
  
18

Phone
  
+1 831-624-2223

Type
  
Private

Par
  
72

Date founded
  
1928

Location
  
Pebble Beach, California

Designed by
  
Alister MacKenzie, Robert Hunter (author)

Address
  
3150 17 Mile Dr, Pebble Beach, CA 93953, USA

Hours
  
Open today · 6AM–10PMTuesday6AM–10PMWednesday6AM–10PMThursday6AM–10PMFriday6AM–10PMSaturday6AM–10PMSunday6AM–10PMMonday6AM–10PM

Designers
  
Alister MacKenzie, Robert Hunter

Similar
  
Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, Pine Valley Golf Club, Monterey Peninsula Country, Oakmont Country Club, Winged Foot Golf Club

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Cypress Point Club is a private golf club in California. The club has a single 18-hole course, one of eight on the Monterey peninsula near Monterey, California. The course is well known around the world for a series of three dramatic holes that play along the Pacific Ocean: the 15th, 16th and 17th, which are regularly rated among the best golf holes in the world. The 16th is a long par three that plays over the ocean. The course was designed in 1928 by golf course designer Alister MacKenzie, collaborating with fellow golf course architect Robert Hunter. It was used for the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am until 1991, but was dropped from the rotation because it refused to admit blacks.

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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 231-yard tee shot over the Pacific to a mid-sized green guarded by strategically placed bunkers.

Cypress Point Club was ranked #2 on Golf Magazine's 2011 List of the Top 100 Golf Courses in the World and #5 on Golf Digest's 2011-12 list of America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses.

When playing Cypress Point, management requires all players to have caddies. Because there are only approximately 275 members, and only 30 of them "locally", many of the tee times on the course are used by guests. On a typical day, the course sends out 8 groups, with the first starting at an early 7:00 tee time.

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References

Cypress Point Club Wikipedia