Pasatiempo Golf Club in Santa Cruz, California, opened on 8 September 1929 as Alister MacKenzie's self-declared favourite design. Set on rolling hillside terrain above Monterey Bay, the semi-private parkland layout features five par threes, large contoured greens, and a back nine defined by deep barranca ravines. A rare Golden Age layout accessible to visiting golfers.
Pasatiempo Golf Club
Pasatiempo Golf Club in Santa Cruz, California, opened on 8 September 1929 as Alister MacKenzie's self-declared favourite design. Set on rolling hillside terrain above Monterey Bay, the semi-private parkland layout features five par threes, large contoured greens, and a back nine defined by deep barranca ravines. A rare Golden Age layout accessible to visiting golfers.
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Alister MacKenzie was born in England, but his parents were Scottish and the family holidayed every year close to where his father was raised in the traditional Clan MacKenzie lands of Sutherland.
Educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield before commencing medical studies at Caius College, Cambridge in 1888, Alister MacKenzie graduated from university with a couple of degrees in 1897, by which time he was already working in his father’s general medical practice.
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Tom Doak was born in New York and was raised in Stamford, Connecticut. He played junior golf at Sterling Farms Golf Course, a five-minute stroll away from his front door. As a youngster Doak accompanied his father on business trips, visiting Harbour Town, Pinehurst No.2 and Pebble Beach whereby he became fascinated by the architectural variation between golf courses. He began reading dusty old golf course architecture library books unearthed by his mother. His obsession had well and truly begun.
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