I'm really looking forward to playing at Pasatiempo. Designed by Dr. Alister MacKenzie, "Pasatiempo" is a Spanish word translated to "hobby" or "pastime".
The course officially opened in 1929 and is located on the hills looking south to the Monterey Bay in Santa Cruz. In his final years, MacKenzie lived by the sixth fairway and thus, Pasatiempo meant a great deal to him. Tom Doak, who has since restored the course to the MacKenzie ideals was quoted as saying, "Pasatiempo is the most personal of MacKenzie’s designs, it is bold and untempered. Afterall, he did live there.”
MacKenzie himself, who has designed the likes of Cypress Point Club, Augusta National and Royal Melbourne, stated that "... good golfers consider the second nine holes at Pasatiempo the finest in existence. The short holes are specially good, and I think the sixteenth hole is the best two-shot hole I know.” The 16th hole is pictured to the right, while the par three 18th is shown above.
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