Est. 1928 · Alister MacKenzie (with Robert Hunter)
Why we love this place
Cypress Point is the course every architecture lover measures others against, and for good reason. We love how MacKenzie let the land do the talking, wild dunes, cypress, and crashing surf, and never forced a hole where nature already wrote one. It is proof that the best design is the kind you barely notice.
Via The Alister MacKenzie Institute
About Cypress Point Club
Cypress Point grew out of a vision by amateur champion and developer Marion Hollins on the tip of the Monterey Peninsula. Seth Raynor drew an early routing but died in 1926, and Hollins turned to Alister MacKenzie, working alongside Robert Hunter, to realize the design. The first round was played in 1928, near the peak of golf's Golden Age. The course threads through dunes, forest, and rocky headlands, and MacKenzie himself came to regard it among his greatest work. Its ocean stretch, including the famed par-3 16th carrying the Pacific, is some of the most photographed ground in golf, and the routing's unconventional sequence of consecutive par-3s and par-5s remains a talking point. For decades a fixture of the Crosby Pro-Am, the fiercely private club later hosted the 2025 Walker Cup.
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