by - San Francisco Public Golf Alliance
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.
Assembly Bill 1910 – the “Golf Endangerment Act” – pits the policy, money, and administrative powers of the State of California against public golf courses. This is the same as Assembly Bill 672, which died in committee last January. The bill picks on exactly those golfers – African Americans and other racial minorities, women, seniors, and schoolchildren – that National Golf Foundation says are golf’s fastest-growing groups and most dependent on affordable and accessible public courses.
by - San Francisco Public Golf Alliance
A Tale of the 1948 Richmond Open, Bill Spiller and Ted Rhodes, Western States Golf Association, Bay Area Golf Club, Sharp Park, Joe Louis, Charlie Sifford, Stanley Mosk, Tiger Woods, and the end of the PGA’s “Caucasians Only” Rule.
by - San Francisco Public Golf Alliance
After speeding through the California State Assembly Housing and Local Government committees on January 12, Assembly Bill 672 – to provide State Taxpayer funds for cities to convert their public golf courses to housing developments – officially died on January 31, after the financial watchdog Assembly Appropriations Committee on January 20 put a “hold in committee” on the fiscally and legally uncertain bill.
by - San Francisco Public Golf Alliance
California Assembly Bill 672 is a radical anti-golf measure that would put a $50 Million bounty of public funds on California’s municipal golf courses to entice cities to replace golf with high-density housing. An earlier version died in committee but it's risen from the grave. Help us put a stake through the heart of this unfair, polarizing legislation! Save the only available venues for millions of students, retirees, and socially and ethnically diverse men and women of all ages, incomes, and abilities who play the muni courses.
by - San Francisco Public Golf Alliance
We give thanks for the historic public courses and municipal gems in our City and for our San Francisco Public Golf Alliance members who contribute financial and moral support to our many years-long fight to preserve public golf in San Francisco. In particular the on-going effort to restore San Francisco's muni "diamond in the rough" at Sharp Park.
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.
May 23, 2022
California Assembly Bill 1910, “Golf Endangerment Act,” dies in the State Legislature. Again.
Mar 24, 2022
The Golf Endangerment Act is Back! It’s Time to Write Your Opposition Letter
Feb 10, 2022
Black History Month, California Golf Chapter, 2022
Jan 31, 2022
AB 672 Update: Anti-Public Golf Bill dies in State Assembly, but the Threat to Golf Remains
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