Vintage photos: Cypress Point Club in the Crosby Clambake era

Cypress Point Club - hole 15 -aerial view — This aerial view of no. 15 at the Cypress Point Club was taken sometime between 1990-1999 according to Getty Images. Fred Vuich/Sports Illustrated via Getty Images

For 35 years, the Cypress Point Club has avoided the spotlight.

The exclusive club on the Monterey Peninsula has always hidden in plain sight near the famed 17 Mile Drive. Savvy golfers could drive up to the club's entry lane within the Pebble Beach's Del Monte forest to snap a photo of the sign. But that is as close as most people have been able to get for nearly four decades.

The club will reemerge from the shadows this week, hosting the 2025 Walker Cup on Saturday and Sunday. A limited number of lucky fans will actually get to walk the hallowed fairways designed by Dr. Alister MacKenzie to watch America's top amateurs take on Great Britain and Ireland's best in a two-day match play format. For the rest of us, the chance to see the course on TV on Peacock and Golf Channel will be almost as exciting.

Cypress Point Club - holes 15 and 16 - only use for promotion of the Walker Cup

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Coverage will be split equally between Peacock and Golf Channel. Remember that GolfPass subscribers enjoy access to Peacock with their memberships. If you would like to join, click here. All times are Pacific:

* Saturday, Sept. 6: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Peacock, 4-7 p.m. Golf Channel.
* Sunday, Sept. 7: 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Peacock, 4-7 p.m. Golf Channel.

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Vintage photos from Cypress Point Club

Cypress Point Club - 1969 Bing Crosby National Pro-Amateur — Golfers huddle together against the wind and rain on the course near the 17th hole at Cypress Point Club during the 1969 Bing Crosby National Pro-Amateur. Garth Eliassen/Getty Images

There was a time - from 1947 to 1990 - when Cypress Point was on TV each year as one of the host courses of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am. Imagine that - you could actually see PGA Tour pros play the famous 16th. Golf fans back then didn't know how good they had it.

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Let's tour those good old days with some vintage photography of the course in its Crosby Clambake era, courtesy of the Getty Images archive. We selected 20 of the most interesting photos from roughly 200 available. As you can imagine, a large percentage of them were of the 16th hole. We tried to pick perspectives on the course rarely seen by golf architecture fans. It's too bad more photos aren't available of the inland holes from 2-14 because there are plenty of wonderful moments within the forest of twisting Monterey Cypress trees and the site's natural sand dunes.

Remember that aerial photos back then were taken by photographers leaning out of helicopters, not flying drones from the ground, proving just how much has changed since the last time Cypress Point was in the public light.