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Sean Leary

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #100 on: April 26, 2010, 07:24:09 PM »
The blind tee shot on #8 is across the dune and pretty much to the east.  The drive on #12 is more to the SE.  The approach shots are pretty similar.

Bill,

Did you play the Reverse Cypress Point? Cool!!!! ;)

Sean, was I geographically challenged?

Yessir. Tee shot on 8 goes west and drive on 12 goes a bit northwest. I think your bearings are off since you switched coasts....Perfectly understandable.

Kevin Pallier

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #101 on: April 26, 2010, 07:37:07 PM »
Ron,

The emotional scars have yet to heal.

You have to wonder how many actually make it across ? Plenty of Titleists I'm sure have come to a watery grave there....

Sean Leary

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #102 on: April 26, 2010, 08:18:42 PM »
Ron,

The emotional scars have yet to heal.

You have to wonder how many actually make it across ? Plenty of Titleists I'm sure have come to a watery grave there....

Two of mine and none of yours...Still heartbroken about it.

Kevin Pallier

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #103 on: April 26, 2010, 08:24:50 PM »
Sean

Hopefully you can get another game there to try and redeem yourself  ;)

Bill_McBride

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #104 on: April 26, 2010, 08:52:31 PM »
The blind tee shot on #8 is across the dune and pretty much to the east.  The drive on #12 is more to the SE.  The approach shots are pretty similar.

Bill,

Did you play the Reverse Cypress Point? Cool!!!! ;)

Sean, was I geographically challenged?

Yessir. Tee shot on 8 goes west and drive on 12 goes a bit northwest. I think your bearings are off since you switched coasts....Perfectly understandable.

Is your World Atlas of Golf handy?   ;D

Assuming that #16 plays due south, parallel to the ocean, then #8 tee shot is way more south than west (SSW) and #12 is more west than south but generally WSW.

Of course we all remember that "assume makes an ass out of you and me."  And I could be all wet, like my four tee balls on #16!   ::)

Jeff Taylor

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #105 on: April 26, 2010, 10:50:26 PM »
18 looks forced. Am I wrong? Are the trees too much?
It seems ok that you must finish somewhere. Is there no better whay to end a round on such a beautiful piece of real estate?

Sean Leary

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #106 on: April 26, 2010, 11:02:12 PM »
Does #12 play similar to #8?  They both look to be dogleg rights around a dune where the better angle is to the inside off the tee?  I guess #12 is longer and #8 looked more uphill for the approach, but I'm just curious.  They both look awesome.  Do they play in similar wind directions? 

Link, you can find an aerial here: http://www.golfblog100.com/2010/04/cypress-point-club.html

Bill,

Check out the link here for the aerial.

Bill_McBride

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #107 on: April 26, 2010, 11:19:25 PM »
Does #12 play similar to #8?  They both look to be dogleg rights around a dune where the better angle is to the inside off the tee?  I guess #12 is longer and #8 looked more uphill for the approach, but I'm just curious.  They both look awesome.  Do they play in similar wind directions? 

Link, you can find an aerial here: http://www.golfblog100.com/2010/04/cypress-point-club.html

Bill,

Check out the link here for the aerial.

Got it!  Would love to be playing it again tomorrow!

Brett_Morrissy

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #108 on: April 27, 2010, 10:16:00 AM »
thanks again Jim - great pics and story as well

As well as the golf course - is the weather always perfect at CPC - most pics seem to have it that way - do many have their rounds ruined by nasty weather?

For that matter - is Monterey always blue skies?
Brett
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Gareth Williams

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #109 on: April 27, 2010, 02:28:45 PM »
On that day what club/s did you take on 16?

Gareth/George,

I've attached the link to Jim's blog below relative to his experience on the 16th at CPC.

I'm sure you'll both enjoy the read.

http://www.wegoblogger31.com/2010/04/three-days-in-california.html




Fantastic Ron, thanks for sharing!

Tom Birkert

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #110 on: April 27, 2010, 03:06:38 PM »
On that day what club/s did you take on 16?

I've hit an 18 degree hybrid on both occasions. It is a very intimidating shot, difficult to concentrate with such sensory overload going on.

Somehow I managed to par it both times. Certainly more down to luck than judgement.

This is a wonderful thread, I will try and get some pics up of my own in due course.

jkinney

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #111 on: April 27, 2010, 07:04:19 PM »
Had a magical moment on the 16th nearly 30 years ago. Brought my Nikon with my favorite 135mm lens and when we got to the 16th tee set my caddie up to snap my tee shot (back tees) at 1/1000th of a second. Remarkably he got the ball frozen 3' off the clubhead. Even more improbably, I pured the shot. The line from my clubhead through the frozen ball was directly on the flagstick. It was a beautiful morning with about a 10 knot breeze coming directly in from the sea. I hit my trusty Tony Penna persimmon driver to 18' and lipped out the birdie putt for a commercial par. A "one off", as my English buddies would say. The photo is framed in my bathroom today, and the more I think about it, the more I come to believe it was a several thousand to one shot that I'd both pure it and the caddie would snap it perfectly. As they say with the NY Lottery - "Hey, you never know....."

Marty Bonnar

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #112 on: April 28, 2010, 05:08:54 AM »
thanks again Jim - great pics and story as well

As well as the golf course - is the weather always perfect at CPC - most pics seem to have it that way - do many have their rounds ruined by nasty weather?

For that matter - is Monterey always blue skies?
Brett

Brett,
the car park as we arrived...


and the view from the first tee...


Luckily it cleared up by the second hole!

cheers,
FBD.
The White River runs dark through the heart of the Town,
Washed the people coal-black from the hole in the ground.

Gareth Williams

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #113 on: April 28, 2010, 05:36:10 AM »
On that day what club/s did you take on 16?

I've hit an 18 degree hybrid on both occasions. It is a very intimidating shot, difficult to concentrate with such sensory overload going on.

Somehow I managed to par it both times. Certainly more down to luck than judgement.

This is a wonderful thread, I will try and get some pics up of my own in due course.



You lucky chap Tom!

When and how did you manage to get on the course? PM me if you prefer  :)

Andrew Mitchell

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #114 on: April 28, 2010, 05:52:24 AM »
Great tour Jim.

Thanks for sharing.
2014 to date: not actually played anywhere yet!
Still to come: Hollins Hall; Ripon City; Shipley; Perranporth; St Enodoc

Brent Hutto

Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #115 on: April 28, 2010, 09:44:35 AM »
thanks again Jim - great pics and story as well

As well as the golf course - is the weather always perfect at CPC - most pics seem to have it that way - do many have their rounds ruined by nasty weather?

For that matter - is Monterey always blue skies?
Brett

The skies are often not blue but the weather is usually perfect!

John Sabino

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #116 on: May 21, 2010, 08:14:14 AM »
Fabulous video of the two kiwi golfers at Cypress Point. Aside from giving goose bumps watching it, it also shows that 18 is not as bad a hole as everyone makes it out to be. Despite the tagline to the contrary - Cypress is the best 18 hole (not 17 hole) course in the world. Enjoy. John

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Michael Taylor

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #117 on: May 21, 2010, 09:36:25 AM »
Epic video..


jonathan_becker

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #118 on: May 21, 2010, 12:54:05 PM »
Great video....I'm sure it's a day those guys will never forget.

They need to get rid of the NY/NY music, though.  They're in California!!

Eric Smith

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Re: Cypress Point Club (Pics)
« Reply #119 on: May 21, 2010, 01:08:38 PM »
Fabulous video of the two kiwi golfers at Cypress Point.
http://www.puregolf2010.com/

That is a cool video. Thanks for posting the link.

5:46 mark is really great stuff.