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Review of Cypress Point Club

I really loooooove this place, this place like par...

I really loooooove this place, this place like part of haven Alister MacKenzie & Robert Hunter (1929) / Jeff Markow (2004)

Glamorous Cypress Point, Alister Mackenzie s masterpiece woven through cypress, sand dunes and jagged coastline, wasn t always the darling of America s 100 Greatest. Golf Digest demoted it to the Fifth Ten back in the early 1970s, saying, It s not surprising that good players might find Cypress Point wanting: it has several easy holes and a weak finisher. Our panel has since changed its collective opinion. In the 2000s, member Sandy Tatum, the former USGA president who christened Cypress Point as the Sistine Chapel of golf, convinced the club not to combat technology by adding new back tees, but instead make a statement by celebrating its original architecture. So Cypress remains timeless, if short, its charm helped in part by superintendent Jeff Markow, who re-established Mackenzie s unique bunkering with the help of old photographs.