Cypress Point Club

Does golf get any better than this? If you ever have the chance to play this course, I suggest you move heaven and earth to do so. Truly magnificent.

Wow!!! best finishing holes i have ever played on !! And scariest, most beautiful and most amazing par three par 3 ever on this course! The course was a lot easier than i expected. Only draw back is you are required to have a caddy if you play… but i would definitely love to play another round on it in the future!

The 5 star should go without saying. If you ever have a chance to play this course then take it. When we teed off there were 4 cars in the parking lot and I’m assuming 2 were the guys working in the pro shop. The course views are what golf is all about and every blade of grass is perfectly manicured.
I feel very fortunate to be able to cross this course off my list of courses to play. I’ve now played all of the courses in the Monterey Peninsula except for Pebble Beach (will get that one soon). Honestly in terms of layout, I like Spyglass more than I liked Cypress as a whole, but the finishing holes at Cypress are as good as it gets.
Really the only complaint I had with the course is that it is extremely easy. As a better than scratch golfer I was able to tear it up first time seeing it. I had middle irons into the par 5’s, the par 4 9^th was drivable with a 3 wood, every other par 4 was a short iron or wedge second, and with the greens that pure you will make putts. Technology has definitely come a long way

Perfection. Like a walk through heaven.

Seriously… If you need to look up reviews of Cypress, you can’t get in or probably play.
Hope you can, as it’s at the top of the food chain of golf.
Good luck, keep your head down and don’t hit it long of the first green if you plan on making a par to start a very senic round.

I was lucky enough to be invited to play Cypress Point by a member (along with two other members of my family). Our plan was to meet for lunch in the clubhouse first, then play golf.
Lunch in the clubhouse is old school. Men must wear a jacket and tie and there are regulars who sit at their «usual» tables. There is a more casual grill now, but we stuck with the full treatment in jacket and tie. The view is incredible, overlooking the ocean with the 16^th green visible at the point. There are no menus, your server will tell you what’s available. The food was very good. For dessert, again, there is no menu. In fact you don’t order. Instead, you walk just outside the dining area to the dessert area where a bunch of daily desserts are set up. The crème brûlée is apparently famous so I tried it and it was very good. Other desserts included a nice looking chocolate cake (just cut yourself a piece) and several other cakes and pies — all self serve — just take what you want.
Next stop is the locker room to change into golf shoes. Again, we are talking old school here. The lockers are from a time in the past. The names on the lockers are handwritten and include the names of prior members. So yes, as you walk in, look to the lockers on the right and you see Bob Hope’s.
Now, the real reason to go to Cypress is for the golf. First, it should be noted that the pro shop is tiny yet well staffed. They sell lots of merchandise to guests out of this tiny space. Just outside the pro shop in the 1^st tee. There may be a few bags out there depending on if there are any golfers planning to go out (probably not).
The first tee has a drive that goes over 17 mile drive. To the right of the fairway is the driving range. The range is small, but serviceable given the amount of play. It’s stocked with ProV1 practice balls indicating an attention to detail.
The first few holes go into the forest winding amongst a handful of nice homes. Your caddy, who is required (no carts and all members must also take caddies) will point out which members own certain homes. The fairways and greens are immaculate as you would expect given the low play and lack of carts.
After several «forest» holes the course turns back toward the ocean. Now, instead of a forest setting we start to see dunes. The dunes (waste areas) are all sand but do not play as bunkers. They make for a new challenge (also present on other courses on the Monterey Peninsula).
Hole 13 starts the transition to the ocean part of the course and the great views. 14 is played next to the ocean but 15 is where the signature parts of Cypress come in to play. The ocean is in full view with seals and sea lions playing on the rocks. 15 is a largely unknown gem, a short, over water par-​3.
16, on the other hand, is the world famous over water par 3. The day we played (from the tips) the yardage to the flag (in the middle) was 235. We hit driver as our caddy implored, only to fly over the pin and off the back of the green. It was the only bad call by the caddie all day. Fortunately, I was able to save par.
Similar to 16, the first shot of 17 is also a long over water carry, with the second shot to this par 4 over a menacing tree. 18 finishes off the round with a short, uphill par 4, with 3-​wood off the tee. The finish to a great round.
Overall, great golf. The caddies are awesome and really good at reading putts. There are no yardage markers anywhere so you really depend on your caddy to tell you what to hit (and where).

If I could give this gorgeous and ultra elite golf club six-​stars I would. Today I got to play the grand-​daddy of them all… Cypress Point Club. Cypress is right there with Augusta as far as privacy and exclusivity are concerned. This was a course that I once thought was a pipe dream to ever play, and today all my dreams came true.
Cypress is a very, very traditional course. The members take pride in the fact that it is a walking-​only course, you must take a caddy, there are no yardage makers or signage on the course… The locker room was old and kept looking like it is still 1920. The course gets so little play, that the parking lot has no more than 15 parking stalls.
The first hole starts off with a par five with a tee shot over a hedge where you must fly 17-​mile drive. It is an Alister McKenzie course — the same designer that created local gems like Green Hills and Pasatiempo, and the legendary Augusta — and he LOVES to torture you with a plethora of gigantic bunkers. The course is such pristine condition, it is indescribable. I have NEVER played a course with greens so smooth — no bumps, no ball marks, no worm castings, no nematode patches, no sand from nearby bunkers… CLEAN.
At about the 12^th hole, I said to my friend — that as great as this is, I couldn’t call it better than Pebble. I called it neck-​and-​neck, but wouldn’t say better… Then, the 14^th hole happened. The 14^th, 15^th, 16^th and 17^th is by far, the most amazing stretch of golf that I can possibly imagine. I honestly can’t see how ANY course (Augusta and St. Andrews included) can come close to the views that Cypress Point provided. And while Pebble Beach has 7 – 8 holes that were equally as stunning as the 14^th through 17^th at Cypress — none of them have shots where you must fly the mighty Pacific. Hole 15, 16 and 17 all have tee shots where you must fly a cove of crashing waves. Shots that require precision and testicular fortitude.
Cypress Point is now the Undisputed #1 course on my «Golf Ranking» list. I’m sure it won’t be unseated, well, ever. If you ever get the chance to play there, cancel whatever you got going on… a family funeral, your wedding, the birth of your baby… Cypress Point is worth the backlash.