TPC Harding Park, Municipal golf course in San Francisco, United States.
TPC Harding Park is a golf course in San Francisco, California, that runs along the shore of Lake Merced and offers 18 holes. The facility includes a practice area with several training sections and a clubhouse with dining services.
Harding Park Golf Course opened on July 18, 1925, named for President Warren G. Harding, an avid golfer who had died in San Francisco two years earlier. Willie Watson and Sam Whiting designed the course for $300. It hosted the U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship in 1937 and 1956, and the PGA Tour's Lucky International Open from 1961 to 1969. After decades of decline, a 15-month renovation began in spring 2002 and the course reopened on August 22, 2003.
The course is municipal, owned by the city and county of San Francisco, and its fee schedule gives city residents a substantial discount and Bay Area county residents a smaller one. The nine-hole Fleming 9 layout is named for John Fleming, the long-time San Francisco Parks superintendent. The Harding Park Men's Club urged that a percentage of tee times be held for residents at reduced rates.
The entrance is on Harding Road, which links to Skyline Boulevard on the east; Lake Merced surrounds the other three sides and San Francisco State University lies to the east. San Francisco residents pay substantially reduced fees, with a smaller discount for Bay Area county residents. The Fleming 9, a nine-hole layout named for long-time parks superintendent John Fleming, was included in the renovation.
In 1998, during the U.S. Open at the Olympic Club's Lake Course next door, Harding Park was used as a parking lot, the lowest point in its decline. Sandy Tatum, a former USGA president, then led the campaign that brought about the 2002 renovation.
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