After watching the Fried Egg Golf film on Cypress Point Club and listening to the Deep Dive podcast today I’m even more intrigued and interested in the history of the course and its design… I’ve learned about Seth Raynor from Garrett and Andy it makes me wonder how different the course would have been if he had lived and Dr. MacKenzie and Robert Hunter hadn’t been hired for the project.

There's an argument that Cantlay will need to squish any thoughts of starting any drama or never see another Ryder Cup team again he doesn't qualify top-6 for. I also hate the idea that you take somebody only because they've been on the team before. Brian Harman qualified ahead of Sam Burns and has been on the team before, as well. As did Mav McNealy. And all these guys played match play golf in college and won quite a bit. So as much as I'm giving Keegan credit for focusing on the captaincy, I'm gonna bark at him if the likes of those last few guys start to blow up.

Nicely put! Good job focus on the most important issue of Keegan keeping his promise and putting the team first. Thank you!

I have not played Cypress Point since the early naughts. What always seemed odd to me was the uninspiring 18th hole. What were Makenzie’s architectural thoughts on its design? Was he just limited in terms of the property on what he could design for the 18th hole? The rest of the course is amazing, but there is a decided letdown standing on the 18th tee. Would love to hear your thoughts.

Big coffee drinkers. We will be sure to stop by one of those pre round to get the focus going. Thanks for the extra knowledge!

Exciting! One my of my favorite shots on the course, which can fly a little under the radar, is the approach into the green on the second hole. When the pin is on the left you can really feed it in from the right. A few factors have to align for you to pull it off (a decent drive, a left pin location, etc.) but if you get the chance and execute it the feeling is pure joy. The green really rips to the left so regardless of where the pin is try to aim it a shade to the right. Hope you enjoy the round. It's a special place. P.S. If you're a coffee fan, get to Santa Cruz early and grab a coffee at Verve or, my personal favorite, Shrine Coffee.

I just joined fried egg golf today and absorbed every piece of this going into a round at Pasa with my dad this Friday. We're both high handicaps (working on it) and I'm already picturing all the great shots I'm going to hit, only to watch them slide off the false fronts again and again. Looking forward to exploring every piece of this property! Thanks for the awesome content and community! Cheers!

Interesting stuff about the Bellarena development. Hard to judge from the limited information available, but looks like it is intended for an area of outstanding natural beauty. Typically quite tricky to get consents for those sort of protected areas and from a very high-level search of the relevant bodies, it doesn't appear to have submitted any planning applications. No doubt they have had preliminary conversations but I would suggest the plans to break ground next year are pretty ambitious.

Carts available?

I mean that would make sense if it was a binary choice, but in reality the mid century courses had a lot more mown rough. One reality is that newer courses are built on better sites than standard farmland, and they are trying to keep more native plants. That can often be really penal, so sand at least is a place for balls to stop, and if a course is built on sand, the process of building a bunker is easy and costs no money so it’s an easy decision. If we ever saw the industry shift back towards more courses built on farmland than it would make a lot of sense to see a shift back to more rough.