Club insiders reveal the hidden charm of property

Cobblestone Beach, California – Cybress Point Club is named after a tree, which is the land that sticks out from the Showboat Peninsula here. That’s the origin story of the club, and an informal club custodian, Sam Reeves, will tell you: the land, the trees, the ocean air embraces all of this.

Sam is Sam, who is nearly 91 years old, but in his vision of life you can have semi-virtual inverted numbers – they have been crossing fairways and roads as the kids prepare to play in the Walker Cup. The Walker Cup is the purest team game in golf, bringing 10 American amateurs to match 10 from the UK and Ireland. In other words, the Walker Cup is the Ryder Cup, behaves better, watch the OPP.

In recent days and weeks, when Sam didn’t bump into the visiting team player prompts, he was talking to them about trees and their roots, land, sea water, the world’s freshwater supply, which made the entire life possible. Also, Samuel FB Morse, the man who brought the golf ball here. Sam is attracted by visionary people. I personally think Sam has written about him before. A visionary person and a friend.

Last month, Sam was chatting while attending practice. La Sasso is the current NCAA champion who plays in Ole Miss. Sam asked him a bunch of questions about himself – he kept doing it – when Sam started talking about Cypress Point La Sasso, La Sasso hung on every word of his, completely involved. I happened to be there.

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“How about it That child? “I asked when La Sasso finally got back to his mission, it was practice.

“Love him,” Sam said. “Love him!”

It’s part of the joy of the Walker Cup Golf. You will see these often-raised Golf talents in an intimate way. Cypress points will be putting all golf this week – real golf, game LEGOlf – for our neat box.

Cypress is another host club in 1981’s Walker Cup. Jodie Mudd and Hal Sutton played for Team USA. Ronan Rafferty and Philip Walton participated in the GB&I team. Raferty and Walton from Ireland were later Ryder Cup players. The last Walker Cup I attended was in 2013 at the National Golf Connection. I went with my friend Mike Donald and we had a great time. Stop by the road and walk by the road. Justin Thomas played in Team USA. Matt Wallace plays for GB&I. Who won? Not me.

But to save you trouble: the Americans won 17-9 that year. Over the years, the United States won 39 Walker Cups, GB&I won 9 games, and the 1965 Walker Cup ended with a draw.

Last month, when some American players were in the early Walker Cup practice game at Cypress, my colleague Darren Riehl had the chance to visit the club with Sam as a guide. Video of this article – by Sam and his two favorite cypress penalties, the club’s young women’s professional, an experienced club F&B man, retired football player Harris Barton, all kinds of others Sui Generis Intimate relationship. There are no courses like this, although Pacific Grove did think of it. There is no club like this, and despite the 200 miles of clubs on the shoreline, the Valley Club has come to mind.

Sam started taking classes about 60 years ago. The game has changed, but the course is not. Land occupies trees, and trees occupy the land. You will reach 70, 80, 90, and you start to see the delicate balance of everything. What should former USGA president and longtime Cypress member Sandy Tatum do when facing offensive weapons elite players now deploy. “Nothing!” said Tatum. Club President George Still recently told me: “We know that these guys are now outdated in the distance to hit the ball. But this is golf for the game. That’s OK.” Forgive the shout and repeat: it. Do. no. matter.

At the Walker Cup, Sam’s long-time caddie Vince Lucido is offering jerseys to GB&i player Peter McEvoy. McEvoy is playing the role of American golf legend Jay Sigel who died earlier this year. On the driveable par 4, in the dunes near Sam’s house, there are green dog legs. Siegel won the hole. There are 8. “It’s like’caddyshack,’Vince told me a few days ago. Play golf in the game!

What I dreamt is that the AT&T Pebble Beach Championship will be combined with the PGA champion and will play as a 54-hole stroke annually in the Wednesday-Friday-Friday qualifier, with 16 players eligible for the weekend matches in Cypress. You will have 16 Saturday mornings, eight Saturday afternoons left, four Sunday mornings, and the last guy stands – your PGA champion – on summer nights in Cypress. You’re talking about a star ready to be close-up. Enter cypress anywhere, stage.

“This site is also good, and I can’t mess it up,” Sam once told me in his unique draw. He left Thomaston, Georgia in the mid-1950s and took a dripping draw. The course is waiting to be discovered when Michelangelo discovers David in an abandoned marble neighborhood. Sam Reeves is a person who sees contact everywhere. His way of seeing the world is infectious.

The course is attributed to Alister Mackenzie, and other courses play a major role. Mackenzie is a doctor and British man, and Bob Jones is an Atlanta lawyer who worked together to design the Augusta Country. Jones was the first Walker Cup team in 1922. Sam grew up in the 1930s and 1940s and Jones and the amateurism he represented. Walker Cup Golf is about golf. You can breathe again.

Sam shared this with Darren and me the other day. We’re especially talking about trees and cypress trees, and this slight edited answer gives you insight into Sam and how he feels about cypress:

“Most trees will die from natural causes, just like people die from natural causes. There is nothing to say, it’s just reality. But people should be cared for, just like people are cared for. They should be respected.”

We talked about his life on the golf course. Sam played among amateurs in the United States and he won many club championships at Cypress.

“Golf is competitive, but then you get involved further and learn that golf is golf connect. ”

I don’t even know that’s a word. This is. A spectacular and fitting.

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