Pasatiempo Golf Club
  Location within the United States  Location within California | |
| 37°00′14″N 122°01′34″W / 37.004°N 122.026°W | |
| Club information | |
|---|---|
| Location | Pasatiempo, Santa Cruz County, California, U.S. |
| Elevation | 500 feet (150 m) |
| Established | 1929 |
| Type | Semi-private |
| Total holes | 18 |
| Website | www |
| Designed by | Alister MacKenzie Jim Urbina (restoration) (2023-2024) |
| Par | 70 |
| Length | 6,500 yards (5,944 m)[1] |
| Course rating | 72.4 |
| Slope rating | 143[2] |
Pasatiempo Golf Club is an 18-hole golf club on the West Coast of the United States, located in Pasatiempo,[3] Santa Cruz County, California.
History
Marion Hollins hired English golf course designer Alister MacKenzie to design and build Pasatiempo Golf Course, which included an equestrian center with polo fields. The course opened on September 8, 1929 with a celebrity golf match, with Bobby Jones in the first to play it.[4][5]
MacKenzie claimed that it was his best layout, ahead of even Cypress Point and Augusta National, and his American home borders the sixth fairway. Pasatiempo is about an hour's drive from Cypress Point, a Monterey Peninsula neighbor to Spyglass Hill and Pebble Beach.
Pasatiempo is a highly rated course — it is ranked 11 in Golf Magazine's "Top 100 Courses You Can Play 2024-2025" and ranked 15 in Golf Digest's "2025 America’s Greatest Public Courses". Golf Digest also named Pasatiempo Golf Club as one of the top 3 "Courses You Can Play in California" (along with Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill). The magazine ranked Pasatiempo 96 in the "Top 100 Courses in the U.S. (private and public)", up 2 places over the 2024 ranking.
The course was recreated in the videogames PGA Championship Golf and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 06.
Scorecard
| Tee | Rating/Slope | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Out | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | In | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI | Championship | 4 | 8 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 14 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 17 | 1 | 9 | 11 | |||
| Championship | 72.4 / 143 | 457 | 437 | 214 | 378 | 190 | 567 | 348 | 176 | 500 | 3267 | 440 | 392 | 373 | 531 | 429 | 141 | 387 | 371 | 169 | 3233 | 6500 |
| Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 35 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 35 | 70 | |
| Middle | 70.8 / 135 | 440 | 420 | 195 | 358 | 174 | 516 | 335 | 162 | 473 | 3073 | 440 | 379 | 373 | 485 | 384 | 120 | 365 | 363 | 143 | 3052 | 6125 |
| SI | Middle | 4 | 8 | 2 | 14 | 6 | 16 | 10 | 12 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 7 | 17 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| Forward | 68.9 / 130 | 457 | 376 | 175 | 343 | 156 | 486 | 327 | 150 | 420 | 2890 | 440 | 311 | 373 | 446 | 331 | 96 | 353 | 357 | 88 | 2795 | 5685 |
| Ladies | 73.9 / 136 | 457 | 376 | 175 | 343 | 156 | 486 | 327 | 150 | 420 | 2890 | 440 | 311 | 373 | 446 | 331 | 96 | 353 | 357 | 88 | 2795 | 5685 |
| Par | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 36 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 36 | 72 | |
| SI | Forward | 14 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 18 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 3 | 5 | 17 |
References
- 1 2 "Scorecard". Pasatiempo Golf Club. May 2008. Archived from the original on June 27, 2012. Retrieved June 9, 2012.
- 1 2 "Course Rating and Slope Database™: Pasatiempo GC". USGA. Retrieved June 9, 2012.
- ↑ Directions Archived 2008-02-12 at the Wayback Machine, Pasatiempo Gold Club website, retrieved February 1, 2008
- ↑ "Pasatiempo Golf Course and Estates". Santa Cruz Evening News. Santa Cruz, California. September 5, 1929. Retrieved March 17, 2023.
- ↑ Routing the Golf Course: The Art & Science That Forms the Golf Journey, Forrest L. Richardson