Among a group of youngsters, 34-year-old Stewart Hagestad did himself proud at Cypress Point Club, the lone mid-amateur on the US Walker Cup side contributing a pair of singles wins in the Americans’ 17-9 victory over Great Britain & Ireland.
In the 35 years since Cypress Point Club took itself out of the rotation for the PGA Tour’s Bing Crosby Clambake—otherwise known as the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am—there have been few glimpses of it from those who are outside of its 250 members and their grateful guests.
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By STEPHEN HENNESSEY Cypress Point is one of the most unlikely invitations in golf. Even for the well-heeled and well-connected, you must be sponsored by a member to play this Alister MacKenzie and Robert Hunter masterpiece along the jagged coastline of Monterey Peninsula, which is ranked No.3 on Golf Digest’s latest ranking of America’s 100 Greatest. Read more…
Weather is hardly an anomaly at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. In fact, it’s part of the tournament aura and its lore, so today’s difficult playing conditions that eventually led to a suspension of the opening round weren’t anything new.