Pebble Beach, Calif. – Cypress Point Club is named for a unique tree for the land saliva departing from the showboat peninsula here. This is the story of the club’s origin, Sam Reeves, an unofficial guardian of the club, will tell you: the land, its trees, the air of the ocean that embraces it all.
Sam-Ri 91 But in his life view you can believe half of the inverted numbers-have been crossing the streets and trails with the kids playing here as they prepare to play in Pedestrian cup. The Walker Cup is the competition of the cleanest golf team, throwing 10 US amateurs against 10 from the UK and Ireland. In other words the Walker Cup is Ryder cupwith much better behavior and seeing ops.
In recent days and weeks, when Sam was not hitting team players to make advice, he was talking to them about their trees and roots, land, ocean water, fresh water supply in the world, which makes it possible all life. Also, Samuel FB Morse, the man who brought golf here. Sam is withdrawn from visionaries. I consider Sam one and have written to see before. A visionary and a friend.
Last month, Sam was talking to Cupper American Walker Michael la SassoAs he was playing a round of practice. La Sasso is the current champion of NCAA who plays in Ole Miss. Sam asked him a host of questions for himself – he is always doing it – and when Sam started talking about Cypress Point La Sasso was hanging in every word of him, fully engaged. It happened to me to be there.
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“Yes for THAT Child? “I asked Sami when he left Sasso finally returned to his task in question, the round of practice.
“Love it,” Sam said. “Love it!”
This is part of the joy of Walker Cup golf. You have to see these golf talents that are often increasing in an intimate way. Cypress This week will put all the real golfin-Golf, Golf of the game goal-in a regular box for us.
Cypress has been the host club for another Walker cup in 1981. Jodie Mudd and Hal Sutton were on the American team. Ronan Raffersy and Philip Walton were on the GB & I. Raferty and Walton team, both from Ireland, were later Ryder Cup players. The last Walker cup I followed was at the Links National Golf, in 2013. I went with my friend Mike Donald, and we had an extremely excellent time. Parked on the side of the road and walked inside. Justin Thomas was in the American team. Matt Wallace played for GB & I. Does who won? Not for me.
But to save you trouble: Americans won that year, 17-9. Over the years, the US has won 39 Cup Walker, GB & I won 9 and the 1965 Walker Cup ended in a tie.
One day last month, when some American players were entering a round of early Walker Cup practice in Cypress, my colleague Darren Riehl, camera in hand, and I had the opportunity to visit the club with Sam as our guide. Video in this article – presenting Sam and two of his favorite Cypress Point caddies, a young woman in club, a F&B veteran club, retired footballer Harris Barton – I think it captures the club all over it of their kind intimacy there is no such course, though a course on the road from it, PacificDoes it come to mind. There is no club like him, though a 200 -mile club below the coastline, Valley clubIt also comes to mind.
Sam began playing the course about 60 years ago. The game has changed but the course does not, not really. The soil holds the trees and the trees hold the soil. You have to be 70, 80, 90, you begin to see the delicate balance in everything. Sandy Tatum, the former USGA president and a long member of Cypress Point, was once asked what the club should do in front of the attack gun players now. “Nothing!” Said tatum. George still, the club president, told me lately, “we know the course is outdated for the distances these people hit the ball now. But this is the golf of the match. Justify the shouting and repetition: it. It does not issue issues
In the 1981 Walker Cup, Sam’s long Caddy Vince Lucido was looking for a GB & I player Peter Mcevoy. Mcevoy was playing Jay Sigel, an American Golf legend who died earlier this year. In the 8th Mobile Para-4 Holy, a doglegi straight with a green in a dune near the Sam’s house. Sigel won the hole. With an 8. ”Was like a scene from ‘caddyshack‘“Vince told me the next day. Match-Play Golf!
I have a dream that the AT&T Pebble Beach tournament will join forces with the Championship PGA and will be played every year as a 54-holes on Wednesday-Thursday Friday, with 16 players qualifying for the weekend game game in Cypress. You would have the 16th Saturday morning, the left eight afternoon on Saturday, four Sunday morning, and a last man standing – your PGA champion – the night of the day in Cypress. You talk about a star ready for his proximity. Enter the cypress, phase everywhere.
“This site was so good you and I couldn’t have cheated it,” Sam told me once in his special attraction. He left Thomaston, ga., In the mid -1950s and took with him his withdrawal of the point. The course, in this story, was waiting to be discovered after Michelangelo found David in an abandoned marble block. Sam Reeves is a man who sees connections everywhere. His way to see the world is contagious.
The course is credited Alister MacKenziewith others playing important roles. Mackezie, a doctor and an Englishman, and Bob Jones, famously an Atlanta lawyer, designed together Augusta National. Jones was in the first team of Walker Cup, in 1922. Sam, in the 1930s and ’40s, grew up in Jones’ idol and the spirit of amateurism he represented. Walker Cup golf is about golf. You can breathe again.
Sam shared all this with Darren and me the next day. We were talking about trees and cypresses in particular, and this edited response easily gives you an overview of Sam, and how he feels about Cypress Point:
“Most trees will die from natural causes, just as people die of natural causes. This is nothing to be sad, it’s just a reality. But trees have to care as people care. They have to be respected.”
We talked about his life in Golf. Sam played in an American amateur, he has won a bunch of club titles in Cypress, and near the end of our day together, he said:
“Golf is competitive, but then you get more into it and realize that golf is CONNECTING”
I didn’t even know it was a word. Is. A spectacular and convenient.
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