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Point was designed by Alister Mackenzie in 1928. The
course is located very near its famous neighbor in Pebble
Beach, California. It is widely considered one of the
world's greatest golf courses. Yet, it is so exclusive,
that few ever play it. The site which the course resides
on is a rich mix of varying terrain's. British golf
historian Pat Ward-Thomas explains, “No golf architect
was more richly endowed with natural features for his
work than Alister Mackenzie at Cypress Point. Majestic
woodland, a hint of links and heathland here and there
and the savage nobility of the coast made for unforgettable
holes.” The incredible setting also prompted this
statement from the writer O.B. Keeler, “The whole
place resembled the crystallization of the dream of
an artist who had been drinking gin and sobering up
on absinthe.” My recreation of Cypress Point will
be released in August of 1998. I have to thank Brent
Blackburn and Irv Miller for all their invaluable help.
More details on Cypress Point can be found in the text
file that is included with the course.
 The 5th hole, a par 5.
 The 8th green perched among the dunes.
 A spectacular view from the 15th tee.
Updates
from the JN5 version of Cypress Point
- Added parallel hole objects to holes
1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, and 14. These should
help hide some of the empty areas beyond the boundaries
of the hole window.
- Created a few new objects for the
course.
- Made some adjustments to hole 13
to make it more accurate.
- Reworked a number of the texture
maps (tee, green, sand, fairway, and rough).
- Tweaked some of the objects and added
MIP maps to most of them.
- Reworked the skies to accommodate
JN6’s taller size, and added one new sky.
- Changed the wind sound and added
a new crow sound.
- Changed both the course and designer
info splash screeens.
Cypress
Point's Scorecard
| Hole |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 |
18 |
Total |
| Par |
4 |
5 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
5 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
5 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
4 |
3 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
72 |
| Gold |
426 |
552 |
165 |
389 |
493 |
522 |
170 |
354 |
296 |
488 |
445 |
405 |
370 |
389 |
144 |
237 |
389 |
349 |
6583 |
| Blue |
424 |
549 |
162 |
384 |
488 |
517 |
165 |
352 |
290 |
480 |
440 |
397 |
365 |
386 |
136 |
232 |
386 |
344 |
6497 |
| White |
413 |
541 |
154 |
376 |
466 |
506 |
160 |
333 |
282 |
477 |
426 |
392 |
341 |
381 |
125 |
221 |
378 |
330 |
6302 |
| Red |
410 |
514 |
141 |
365 |
410 |
472 |
154 |
298 |
248 |
472 |
402 |
309 |
285 |
322 |
117 |
210 |
352 |
298 |
5779 |
*All holes measured to the center
of the green.
About the
New Version of Cypress Point
The
CYPRESSJN6-2.ZIP file below is a newer version of the
course that fixes problem with a parallel hole object
along the left side of #1. This object would sometime
cause balls hit down the left side to ricochet off of
what seemed like an invisible object. This should no
longer be a problem. If you haven't experienced this
problem playing the course, you may decide to skip this
download as nothing else has been modified on the course.
For those playing Cypress Point on-line, it will be
necessary that everyone has the same version of the
course, either the original or this new version. The
newest version has a small 1.1 version number in the
lower right corner of the course map.
For
people who have the uncompiled version of the course,
you can download just the corrected files for #1 below.
Once the files are downloaded and decompressed, simply
copy the new files over the old ones, open the course
in the JN6 Designer and resave it. You can then compile
the course with the JN6 Course Converter and play it
in the game.
You
can download the compiled version of Cypress Point from
here:
Cypress.zip (21.4
MB)
Remember
that you will need WinZip or an equivalent decompression
utility to unzip the file(s).
The DOS utility PKUnzip will not work because of the
Windows 95 long filenames used.
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