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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
The coronavirus shutdown disproportionately impacts small business entrepreneurs that are an important part of our Bay Area public golf community. They've been there for us and now is the time for the golfing community to support them.
The San Francisco Public Golf Alliance cancelled the 9th Annual Alister MacKenzie Heritage Benefit Tournament to Preserve Sharp Park due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
The World’s Best LPGA Tour Professionals Tee It Up in Bay Area’s Premier Professional Women’s Sporting Event at the Lake Merced Golf Club in Daly City on Aprils 30 - May 3. UPDATE: This event has been postponed indefinitely.
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