Stanford will host once a year multiformat event at Cypress Point
30 Oct 2016
by AmateurGolf.com Staff
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9th hole at Cypress Point Club
(Cypress Point Club Photo)
PEBBLE BEACH, CA (October 31, 2016) -- Stanford is
set to host one of the unique events of the fall
season,
the Cypress Point Classic at Cypress Point Club. The
format includes four-ball, foursomes and on the final
day singles.
Participating in the event are host No. 11
Stanford,
No. 8 Wake Forest, No. 18 USC, No. 14 Georgia,
Georgia Tech, Alabama, UCLA and California.
Stanford head coach Conrad Ray told Golfweek
that
the event was inspired by Mark Frost's book, "The
Match" which tells the story of the four-ball match at
Cypress
Point Club between professional's Ben Hogan and
Byron
Nelson and amateurs E. Harvie Ward and Ken
Venturi.
One other interesing nugget about the Cypress
Point Classic is the rumor as told by one coach to
Golfweek, who said that stroke-play isn't allowed at
the
Alister MacKenzie designed course in an effort to
preserve Ben Hogan's course record 63.
Format
Day 1 - Round 1: Four-ball "best ball"
Day 1 - Round 2: Foursomes
Day 2 - Round 3: Singles Match Play
-Each team will compete with six players.
-Teams will play 54 holes over two days.
-The eight teams will be pre-seeded 1-8 in
order
by average ranking between Golfstat and Golfweek
rankings seven days prior to event.
-No. 1 seed will play No. 8 seed, etc., in first
round
of bracket play. Winners will go forward in bracket,
losers will move to consolation bracket. Each team
will
be guaranteed three matches under each format
outlined. Lineup order will remain the same
throughout
the event.
Scoring
-Four points will be available per match.
-One point will be awarded for both the front-
nine
and back-nine matches, and two points for the
overall
match.
-Each match will be played over 18 holes under
format during that round. The total number of "holes
won" by each side over the full 18-holes will settle
ties.
Teams with highest point total at the end of each
round
will advance in the bracket.
-Golfweek and Stanford Athletics contributed to
this story