Pasatiempo Golf Club - #96/Top 100 Alister MacKenzie - 1928 One of the best walks in all of golf is only getting better! What a cool experience getting to play this classic mid-restoration. The front 9 is complete, the back 9 is coming later this year. The new greens are unreal, the new Bentgrass greens truly allow Alister’s design to shine. Jim Urbina has studied Pasatiempo for 20 years while working for Doak and now has the reigns of this ongoing project. The greens have been expanded and restored as close to original as they can get. They are so good. The routing remains one of the best. Alister used the ravines and barrancas to create a course with 18 unique holes. Trouble lays everywhere but is almost always avoidable with a safe target. The fairways are some of the most interesting on earth, 14 and 16 rivaling the great front 9 fairways of Crystal Downs. You have to think before your tee shots, though they are wide enough for all players. Pasatiempo is a private club that welcomes all players. It’s a gift to all golfers. A walk at Pasatiempo is truly a walk with Alister himself. He loved it so that his ashes were spread amongst the grounds. A greater compliment to this place he could not have paid.