Cypress Point Club
Green fee notes
Our guide source does not state a standalone green fee for this course. Confirm the applicable fee and access conditions with the club.
Seasonal and eligibility conditions apply; this is not a quote for your travel dates. Confirm with the club before booking non-refundable travel.
The dossier
How to play it
What Cypress Point Club is, the route that actually gets you on, the week it plays at its best, and whether it is worth the trip.
Guide fields July 2026; verdict September 2026. Green fees and visitor policies change — confirm with the club before booking non-refundable travel.
Cypress Point Club is number 03 in the Top 50 Guide. See the Top 50 Guide
Bucket-list verdict
For most golfers this is the finest course they will never see, and accepting that is part of the plan. Build the Monterey trip around Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill and Pasatiempo, and let Cypress stay the opening that appears only if a member hosts. There is no package that buys this round; treat anyone selling one accordingly.
Signature
Alister MacKenzie's Monterey masterpiece moves from dunes to forest to the Pacific in one seamless crescendo.
How to play it
Private access usually depends on a member invitation. Build a Monterey trip around Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill, and Pasatiempo, then let Cypress remain the once-in-a-lifetime opening if a host appears.
Best window
September and October, when Monterey is often clearer, calmer, and golden over the ocean holes.
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Overview
Why it matters
Cypress Point feels almost too exquisite to be planned. It begins in pine and sand, slips through dunes, and then opens onto the Pacific with a sequence so sublime it can make even seasoned travelers go quiet. MacKenzie’s hand is present everywhere, but never heavy.
The famous sixteenth is only the headline. The deeper pleasure is the routing’s rhythm: intimate, then expansive; strategic, then surreal. Cypress is golf as private cinema, a place where the land seems to have granted architecture permission rather than the other way around.
Access
What most guides get wrong
The single thing golfers most often believe about getting on at Cypress Point Club, and what the club or resort actually publishes.
Checked September 2026. Fees and visitor policies change — confirm with the club before booking non-refundable travel.
The common belief
That because it sits on the public 17-Mile Drive next to Pebble Beach, it can be booked through the Pebble Beach reservation system.
What actually happens
Cypress Point is a fully private club of roughly 250 members with no public tee sheet and no connection to the Pebble Beach resort booking system. Play is limited to members and their accompanied guests, and there is no advertised guest green fee. Build the Monterey trip around Pebble Beach, Spyglass Hill and Pasatiempo, and treat Cypress as the round that only happens if a host appears.
Checked against
Checked against an authorised operator or a reputable golf publication, not the club's own page.
Cypress Point Club is number 03 in the Top 50 Guide, which carries this field for every course on the list. See the Top 50 Guide
Par
72
Yardage
6,524
Holes
18
Opened
1928
Green fee
Member access only
Difficulty
9/10
Architect
Alister MacKenzie and Robert Hunter
Plan the wider route
Video walk-through
Study the shape before you arrive.
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Editors’ notes
What our editors logged here.
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Loop Member
★★★★★
A benchmark experience: strategic, atmospheric, and worthy of a dedicated journey.
Loop Member
★★★★★
The routing, setting, and service details make this feel like more than a round.
Dine like a champion
Local tables worth planning around.
Inside Loop pairs every great tee time with restaurants that respect the same destination rhythm: provenance, service, and a room with memory.
Explore travel pairings12 min drive
Chez Noir
Coastal California bistro
Michelin-starred
A seafood-centric Carmel dining room from Jonny and Monique Black, intimate and deeply seasonal.
Cypress Point’s best culinary analogue: private-house intimacy, coastal seafood, and the sort of restrained luxury that feels discovered.
12 min drive
Aubergine
California tasting menu
Two Michelin stars; Forbes Five-Star
Central Coast ingredients, quiet ceremony, and one of Carmel’s most polished dining rooms.
The white-tablecloth choice after a once-in-a-lifetime round: exacting, intimate, and built around the same Central Coast bounty that frames the course.
55 min drive
Sierra Mar
Contemporary Californian
MICHELIN Guide selection
Post Ranch Inn cliff-edge drama, floor-to-ceiling Pacific views, and ingredient-driven tasting menus.
For travelers extending the peninsula into Big Sur, Sierra Mar delivers the cinematic Pacific finale that matches Cypress Point’s coastal theatre.