Cypress Point Club
Cypress Point Club is a private golf club on the West Coast of the United States, along the Central Coast of California. The club has a single 18-hole course, one of eight on the Monterey Peninsula near Monterey. The course is well known for a series of dramatic holes along the Pacific Ocean that have been named as some of the best in golf. History. The course opened on August 11, 1928; Byington Ford, Roger D. Lapham, and Marion Hollins were trailblazers for the project. The course was designed in 1928 by golf course designer Alister  MacKenzie, collaborating with fellow golf course architect Robert Hunter. Golf Course. 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 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. The golf course is considered  one of the most exclusive golf courses in the world. Non-members must be sponsored by 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. Since then, Condoleezza Rice was admitted as a member of the club. 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 the tournament.