[Mick]

Mick -- you are a lucky guy to grow up on Pasatiempo.  just a great great track.  on the occasions they shave and roll the greens, you can't afford to be above the hole on #16 and #18.  I've been lucky to play quite a few MacKenzie courses (Pasatiempo, Cypress, Augusta, Moortown, Royal Melbourne, Valley, etc.).  Crystal Downs is one I've not played yet.  it is on my bucket list.

I was playing with my dad on #16, the hole was on the front-left of the lower tier of the three-tier green and my ball was on the left of the middle tier, giving me a 25 foot putt with a sharp right-to-left break.  Dad's probably played 1,000 rounds at Pasa.  He looks at my ball, walks over to the front right of the green, twenty feet from the hole and says "your best bet is to play it here, or you'll go off the green."  I wanted my birdie/par, missed the high side of the hole by an inch and went off the green, about 40 feet from the hole.  AARRGGHHH!

MacKenzie loved California, and made his permanent home there when he was in his 60s.  His house is the first large house off the left fairway of #6, a long, straight par 5.

There are other Alister MacKenzie courses in the SF Bay Area you might play if you haven't already done so.  Sharp Park in Pacifica, the Meadow Club in Fairfax, Claremont Country Club in Oakland, Green Hills Country Club in Millbrae, Northwood Golf Club in Monte Rio and Haggin Oaks in Sacramento.

And if you venture to SoCal, there's Fort Washington in Fresno and Redlands country Club in Redlands.

[Mick]

Mick -- you are a lucky guy to grow up on Pasatiempo.  just a great great track.  on the occasions they shave and roll the greens, you can't afford to be above the hole on #16 and #18.  I've been lucky to play quite a few MacKenzie courses (Pasatiempo, Cypress, Augusta, Moortown, Royal Melbourne, Valley, etc.).  Crystal Downs is one I've not played yet.  it is on my bucket list.

I was playing with my dad on #16, the hole was on the front-left of the lower tier of the three-tier green and my ball was on the left of the middle tier, giving me a 25 foot putt with a sharp right-to-left break.  Dad's probably played 1,000 rounds at Pasa.  He looks at my ball, walks over to the front right of the green, twenty feet from the hole and says "your best bet is to play it here, or you'll go off the green."  I wanted my birdie/par, missed the high side of the hole by an inch and went off the green, about 40 feet from the hole.  AARRGGHHH!

MacKenzie loved California, and made his permanent home there when he was in his 60s.  His house is the first large house off the left fairway of #6, a long, straight par 5.

There are other Alister MacKenzie courses in the SF Bay Area you might play if you haven't already done so.  Sharp Park in Pacifica, the Meadow Club in Fairfax, Claremont Country Club in Oakland, Green Hills Country Club in Millbrae, Northwood Golf Club in Monte Rio and Haggin Oaks in Sacramento.

And if you venture to SoCal, there's Fort Washington in Fresno and Redlands country Club in Redlands.