Unlike Cypress Bend's wide open and forgiving fairways, Cotton Creek has tighter, more traditional, tree lined fairways where if you miss the fairway, you're lost in a dense forest of pines. Some of the fairways have some beautiful homes set back from the fairways but still in play if you hook or slice the ball.
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.
One downside to reading about Cypress Point is that it's liable to make you want to play it. That's an itch that's challenging to scratch. Membership carries a reported $250,000 initiation fee, and that's not the biggest barrier to entry. You don't ask to join.
As a result, Cypress Point, which admits women but does not have a black among its 250 members, decided last week it will no longer be one of the sites of the A.T.& T. Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, an event it has been a host to for more than 40 years.
The 18-hole "Cypress Bend" course at the Craft Farms facility in Gulf Shores, Alabama features 6,848 yards of golf from the longest tees for a par of 72. Designed by Arnold Palmer, the Cypress Bend golf course opened in 1998. Honours Golf manages this facility, with Chad Leonard as the Director of Club Operations.
The Gulf Shores, Alabama area is a beachgoer's dream: pristine white sand beaches, all kinds of beach bars, shopping and OWA, an entertainment park with a downtown area, restaurants, and an amusement park.