by - Bo Links
In a time of extraordinary challenge for municipalities and muni golf, our co-founder Bo Links maps out a path forward to support municipal golf and explains why it's important to the future of the game.
by - San Francisco Public Golf Alliance
Bo Links, co-founder of the San Francisco Public Golf Alliance, is winner of the 2021 Lido Prize for golf architecture design, awarded by the Alister MacKenzie Society and Golf Digest Magazine.
by - San Francisco Public Golf Alliance
Support your local Muni! Friends of Sharp Park volunteer to help Rec & Park clear debris from our much loved course.
by - Richard Harris
A review of Tom Coyne's search for "The Great American Golf Course". His new book "A Course Called America" is an entertaining travelogue of American golf towns and courses, bits of golf history and sociology, and includes a round at Sharp Park on a rainy weekday afternoon in the first week of December 2019.
by - San Francisco Public Golf Alliance
Assembly Bill 672 Threatens California Golf – in particular Public Golf. The Southern California Golf Association calls AB672 “the most damaging piece of golf legislation to be filed in a generation”. We need your help. UPDATE: Sanity prevails. California Assembly Bill 672 failed to clear the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee for consideration in the 2021 legislative year.
by - San Francisco Public Golf Alliance
Our main annual fundraiser, the Alister MacKenzie Tournament to Save Sharp Park, was cancelled this year due to the Coronavirus. Because our fights for public golf and to preserve Sharp Park require money, we are announcing our first-ever year-end fundraising campaign. Our Board and a few generous supporters have agreed to match the first $20 thousand in donations. If you can, please step up again for the Cause, and Donate.
by - San Francisco Public Golf Alliance
All Souls Day is a fitting time to remember one of Golf’s Great Souls: Grant Spaeth, a San Francisco Public Golf Alliance charter member and former USGA President, who died July 28, 2020 at his home in Los Altos. He was 88 years old.
by - San Francisco Public Golf Alliance
Alister MacKenzie was born to Scottish parents on August 30, 1870 in Normanton, Yorkshire, east of Manchester in Northern England.His impact on golf in general and Northern California in particular cannot be overstated.
by - San Francisco Public Golf Alliance
Cal Berkeley golf All-American and 2020 PGA Champion Collin Morikawa is the latest Bay Area golfer to cut his teeth on SF public courses before etching his name in local golf history. Ken Venturi is the dean on that list. He grew up and learned to play at Harding Park, attended nearby Lincoln High (as did his fellow Hall-of-Famer Johnny Miller), won City prep golf championships, won "The City" Championship three times, the Cal State Amateur twice, the '64 US Open and defended our historic municipal gems to the end of his life.
by - San Francisco Public Golf Alliance
The PGA Championship at TPC Harding Park has finally arrived. For your reading (and viewing) enjoyment, a compilation of links and articles of historical interest to the PGA Championships and San Francisco munis.
by - San Francisco Public Golf Alliance
On August 6-9, 2020, Harding Park will host the PGA Championship. On August 13, 1933, Sharp Park Pro Willie Goggin was in the final match against Gene Sarazen in the PGA Championship.
by - San Francisco Public Golf Alliance
Public golf courses have proven to be a popular and safe recreational option during the COVID-19 pandemic. And San Francisco golfers – old and new – are responding by turning-out in numbers for a "good walk spoiled".
Dec 7, 2024
Happy Holidays from the SF Public Golf Alliance!
Oct 29, 2024
UPDATE: The 2024 Mackenzie Golf Auction has concluded. Congrats to the successful bidders!
Sep 11, 2024
Random Golf and “Mad Scramble” at Sharp Park
Apr 16, 2024
Sign Up For The 10th Alister MacKenzie Tournament To Preserve Sharp Park - 6/22/24!
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