For those of you who have played the 16th at Cypress Point, what club selection do you use off the tee?

I'll bite. November, 2007. Wind quartering from NW at 35mph. From the Tips, Smoked a 3 wood, caddie said "that might get there". I said, "thats gonna be long". Walk up and I am just in the second cut in the back, right over the top of the pin. Yes I got up and down for par. Caddie told me it was the best swing he had seen on that hole under those conditions in quite a while.
My buddy hit a full driver to 30 feet and made par as well. Thanks for reminding me of the sweet memory.

First time I played was with my father and we both birdied 15 with pin up front...we were pumped. we both went to 16, He hit 3wood and pulled it left. I roasted a 3 iron to 15ft. pin high...missed the putt. made par though and that was like making a birdie...birdied 17 though and parred 18. shot 72 the first time I ever played it....that is a special place

Caddy, who had been dead on all day long, told me to hit 3 wood. I told him I thought it was a 2 iron but I would defer to him because he HAD been right all day long. The 3 wood was still going up when it drew over the top of the flagstick(Deep left pin) and went in to the ocean. Teed up a 2 iron, hit it to 15 feet, made the putt. Caddy said it was the best 4 he had ever seen there, obviousluy guaranteeing himself a big tip! It was one of the the Top 5 days of my life.

Played there in 1992. Hit a PING Eye 2+ 1 iron, and Titleist Balata 100 to about 25 feet. 2 putt par. What a great day. 224 from the tee box we were playing.

Very light breeze. Perfect conditions that day.

3 wood to green, 25 feet below hole.
Putter.
Putter.
Putter.
Grrr.

On a perfect non windy day, my strong hybrid..18* to about 20 feet.
Of course missed the putt!
But I can imagine a driver on a not so perfect day!

April 2008.
A bit better than average (we were told) wind gusting straight in our face. I hit a driver a bit left of the green and it bounced left when it hit. There is a neck in the fairway and my ball rolled over it down to the ocean. I walked down the steps built there and momentarily got excited. There on the sand looked to be my ball. Getting down to the beach however, I realized there were literally hundreds of balls scattered around and the one of the sand was not mine. It, like all the others had spent countless waves washing over the rocks and sand and was now almost rubbed to its core.
A bit dispirited, I walked back up to the hazard line and hit my pitch to about 3 feet for a bogey which wasn't bad. My partner (we were both 7 hpcs) hit a driver there as well, about 25 feet above hole. So excited, he barely kept his next putt on the green.

My dad played the senior boxes, hit his routine cut 3 wood to the fairway and pitched up to the green. (We had surprised him for his 75th birthday, took him to Pebble Beach and we played Spyglass, Pebble and Cypress.) He loves the picture on the 15th tee box with him, me and his caddy, Coop.


By the way, something that doesn't get mentioned, is the tee shot on 17.
Tee box is exposed, sort of behind 16 green. You decide how much of the ocean you want to bite off to a fairway across the chasm of crashing waves and dead titleists. Almost in the center of the fairway, you then have a strand a trees that divides the fairway.

Cypress is special...awfully nice people and somewhat nondescript in its presence on the first tee. It then winds through an inland forest before coming back to the ocean and the thoughts you have held inside for 14 holes.

I have never played this course. From what I understand you have 2 options, 1) go for it 2) lay up to the left to the dead cypress tree
Isnt taking a driver off the tee too much club and if it is not straight you are screwed? a fairway wood could get caught in the wind, so what do you do other than lay up??!?!

BBL... I am NOT laying up! If you are fortunate, you get to play Cypress Point once in your life. I would not have laid up under any condition.

I don't know how you guys all get on over there, I would love to play it someday and no, I would never even consider laying up there, even if it took a full sleeve.

As far as getting on, I was fortunate enough to be a guest of a member. When I play golf courses for the first time, I never lay up anywhere. Who knows if you will ever get another chance to play there? If you lay up, you spend the rest of your life telling people " I hit a little 5 iron over to the side and made a safe bogey." I would rather tell people I made an 11 by going for it.

Hit a driver and it went to the back part of the green. Probably my best drive of the day. What a stretch of holes (15-17) on a fantastic golf course.

Nice and I totally agree. If you can pull off that shot like others have already talked about with one in the water and then another to 15 feet and save the bogey, that is the shot you will brag about every time!