It was a remarkable day at the landmark Sharp Park Golf Course for the Alister MacKenzie benefit tournament to Save Sharp Park, including perfect weather and a full field of enthusiastic golfers, most of them young women and men – a new generation of Alister MacKenzie fans.
Dr. MacKenzie Wants You!
To join the SF Public Golf Alliance
For the 9th Annual Alister MacKenzie Heritage Tournament
At the Good Doctor’s Beautiful Sharp Park Golf Course.
Shotgun Start Sunday, November 12, 8 a.m.
Excitement is building for the reborn 9-hole Golden Gate Park Golf Course. Closed for renovation in March 2023, it's on track for a Late Fall reopening. We will soon have one of the premier 9 hole, par 3 municipal courses in the country - right here in the best urban park anywhere.
The LPGA Hanwha LifePlus International Crown, a unique team match play tournament featuring four-player teams from the world’s eight top-ranked golfing countries, was contested at San Francisco’s Harding Park links. This was the first appearance of an LPGA event at scenic Harding Park and the latest chapter in Northern California's emergence as a world center of women’s professional golf.
Donated to the City of San Francisco by the nonprofit San Francisco Public Golf Alliance, a permanent historical exhibit memorializing and explaining the work of world-renowned Sharp Park golf architect Alister MacKenzie opened in the entry hall of the Sharp Park Clubhouse.
The Save Sarp Park red & green genuine leather driver & fairway wood headcovers are back by popular demand! We received a limited shipment, so don't wait.
While quantities last, find them at the State Apparel on-line store. Net proceeds support your San Francisco Public Golf Alliance.
The San Francisco Bay Area, Northern California, and California golf communities mourn the recent death of Lynda “Lyn” Nelson, a beautiful soul and a true and passionate friend of golf. She died December 9, 2022 at her home in Half Moon Bay. Lyn was a rare bird – a woman golf executive in a traditionally male-dominated sport and business. She was driven by a conviction that golf must broaden its reach – to embrace women, children, and diversity. She also stood with the San Francisco Public Golf Alliance as a supporter of our efforts to save and restore Alister MacKenzie's Sharp Park.
In 1914, Britain's Country Life magazine published the winner of a "golfing architecture" contest to design an "ideal two-shot hole". The winner was Dr. Alister MacKenzie. His "ideal two-shot hole" crossed the Atlantic to be built at the Long Island Lido Club, proclaimed at the time to be "the finest course in the world". MacKenzie went on to become the most influential golf architect in the world. His "ideal two-shot" lives on at the restored Lido Course in Wisconsin, and at our SF muni - Sharp Park.
We give thanks for our historic Bay Area public courses and municipal jewels, for our loyal San Francisco Public Golf Alliance members, for all who contribute financial and moral support to our fight for public golf in San Francisco, and for those working with us to preserve Alister MacKenzie’s diamond in the rough at Sharp Park. And we ask for your generous tax-deductible year-end contribution. Your charitable support makes our work possible.
Predating the creation of the Lincoln Park golf course at the turn of the 20th century, the land was home to San Francisco City Cemetery. The historic cemetery was officially recognized on September 27, when the SF Board of Supervisors designated City Cemetery as a Landmark. The legislative intent is to honor the 19th Century immigrants who built the City and who are still buried there -- without impairing operation and maintenance of the historic Golf Course, the Art Museum, or the children’s playground.
An 18-month anti-golf campaign by California’s powerful development industry, its cheerleaders, lobbyists, and Assembly Member Cristina Garcia, author of AB-1910 (The Golf Endangerment Act) died last week in a May 19 Suspense File Hearing of the State Assembly’s fiscal watchdog Appropriations Committee.