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Cypress Point like you've never seen it: Exclusive drone footage of all 18 holes

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Carlos Amoedo

December 14, 2021

Cypress Point, one of golf’s great cathedrals, doubles as one of golf's most exclusive enclaves. Thanks to three-plus days of capturing drone footage around the majestic Monterey Peninsula layout, Golf Digest presents Cypress Point Club, complete with narration from Jim Nantz, in the latest installment of our "Every Hole At" video series.

Watch the video below:

"The Sistine Chapel of golf," as the late USGA president Sandy Tatum described it, Cypress Point is one of 22 clubs to make every top Golf Digest national ranking since 1966, ranking third on each of our five previous America's 100 Greatest Course rankings. And it always ranks among the most beautiful courses in the world, including No. 1 on our list of the most recent Most Beautiful Courses in America. The work of Alister MacKenzie and Robert Hunter was a regular part of the rotation of the Bing Crosby Pro-Am—now the AT&T Pebble Beach—until 1991, and also hosted the 1981 Walker Cup.

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Carlos Amoedo

The seaside 17 Mile Drive enclave, with its ultra-exclusive membership, is one of the toughest "gets" in golf, which makes Golf Digest's video project so exciting. Carlos Amoedo, who captured the footage for Golf Digest, tells of a glorious couple of days at the Monterey Peninsula club, the biggest obstacle of which was navigating the towering pines around hole Nos. 4-8.

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Carlos Amoedo

"The sights and sounds of the sea lions swimming along the 15th hole was incredibly special," Amoedo told us. "Of course, doing the walk along 16 was incredible, and getting to experience that for the first time, plus fly the drone along there was great.

"And a family of deer walking down the 10th fairway, unfazed by the drone buzzing past them, was another cool moment."

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Every step becomes a memorable moment at Cypress Point, and now everybody gets to see why.

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Carlos Amoedo