It started as a competition.
A group of friends. A simple challenge. Six weeks to build something from scratch and see what happens. No guarantee it would work. No master plan. Just an idea and a deadline.
We built Courses You Need to Play. And within days of launching, something became obvious. People were hungry for this.
Not Pebble Beach. Not Augusta. Not the courses everyone already knows and can recite from memory.
They wanted the other ones. The ones you find through research. The ones a friend tells you about after a trip. The courses that deliver a legitimate world-class experience without the price tag that makes you question every life decision you have ever made.
That's what CYNTP was built for. And that's exactly what The Turn is going to be every single week.
THE COURSE THAT STARTED IT ALL
Sand Hollow Resort, Hurricane, Utah
Sand Hollow Resort (Golf Digest)
Before we ever filmed a single video, I did what every golfer does when they catch the travel bug. I went deep on research.
I found Sand Hollow Resort in Hurricane, Utah the way most people find it. A forum thread. A comment section. Someone typing "you have to play this place" and enough people agreeing that it stuck with me. The Championship Course kept showing up everywhere I looked. A John Fought design sitting in the red rock canyon country of southern Utah, ranked among the top public courses in the country, with three holes that made Golf Digest's list of the 100 greatest golf holes in America.
It looked unreal. And it wasn't priced like Pebble Beach.
I put it on the list. And then a year and a half passed.
When we finally played it, it was everything I had built it up to be. And then some.
THE FRONT 9
Solid Golf, Beautiful Setting
Front 9 (The Fried Egg)
The front nine at Sand Hollow sets you up perfectly. Red rock outcroppings, native desert vegetation, wide fairways with orange-tinged bunkers that blend right into the sandstone landscape. It is strategic golf without being punishing. The kind of nine where you find your rhythm, get comfortable with the greens, and start thinking this might be a really good round.
The views are already impressive. Pine Valley Mountain to the west, the red cliffs of Zion in the distance. You are already reaching for your phone more than your rangefinder.
But the front nine is not what you will be talking about on the drive home.
