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TPC Harding Park’s Older Brother

Sun, 02 Aug 2020 10:47:34 +0000

TPC Harding Park is the golden boy of San Francisco public golf, with fame, good fortune, and given its exposure as host to this year’s PGA Championship, an international audience and global reputation. That makes the contrast with its older brother, Lincoln Park Golf Course, a few miles northwest, all the more glaring. Technically, Lincoln

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PGA Championship 2020: What past first-time PGA hosts can teach us about what to expect at TPC Harding Park

Sat, 01 Aug 2020 02:07:54 +0000

When TPC Harding Park welcomes golfers to the 2020 PGA Championship in San Francisco next week, it will become the 129th course in the United States to host a men’s major (and just the second in the Bay Area, joining Olympic Club’s Lake Course). A public facility originally designed by Willie Watson and Sam Whiting

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PGA Championship 2020: First- and second-round tee times at TPC Harding Park

Fri, 31 Jul 2020 09:57:40 +0000

The 102nd PGA Championship will be a major unlike any we’ve seen in the modern era of golf, thanks to the fact that there will be no spectators walking outside the ropes at TPC Harding Park in San Francisco. Of course, a fanless championship is better than no championship at all. And while the adrenaline

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This woman got cheated out of her first hole-in-one in the most 2020 way

Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:47:55 +0000

As first reported in the Bangor Daily News, Steve Norton, 80, had just made a hole-in-one (his first) last Thursday when one of his playing partners, Susan Hunter, stepped to the tee. Of course, having just witnessed an ace, a golfer refocuses just a bit in hopes of matching the feat. And Hunter nearly did.

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This is one of the coolest golf collections we’ve ever seen

Fri, 24 Jul 2020 07:39:17 +0000

Most golfers dream of the opportunity to play any of America’s 100 Greatest Courses. Mark Greer has played 95 of them, and he has the souvenirs to prove it. Some might opt to collect ball-markers, hats, or shirts from these courses as a keepsake, but Greer chose to collect a more unique item: divot-repair tools.

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This golf architect in his eighth decade of design shares stories about working with Robert Trent Jones, Jack Nicklaus and others

Tue, 21 Jul 2020 06:58:02 +0000

Golf architecture from the late 1800s through the Great Depression is a well-traveled road. Between contemporaneous books and articles from the likes of Horace Hutchinson, C.B. Macdonald, Alister Mackenzie, George Thomas and others, and from the discoveries of modern researchers who scour archives and digitized newspaper reports, the story of golf’s formative years in America

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Remembering Bud Chapman and his ‘Infamous 18’ holes

Fri, 17 Jul 2020 06:07:31 +0000

The Minnesota native wasn’t technically a golf course architect—he never built an actual course—but rather a golf course artist. And yet the creative flair and dramatic realism that Chapman, who died on July 9 at age 97, brought to his fictional drawings made them as memorable as some real-life designs. An accomplished player who attempted

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Rees Jones reflects on a long, distinguished career as he remains as busy as ever

Thu, 09 Jul 2020 03:37:55 +0000

When your family lineage of designing and building golf courses reaches back nearly 90 years, you tend to view the profession of golf course architecture from a unique perspective. Rees Jones began working for Robert Trent Jones in 1965 when his father was at the height of his career. That proximity to the most prominent

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How you and your course can be more welcoming to the LGBTQ golf community

Mon, 29 Jun 2020 08:27:59 +0000

Moments in golf’s recent history have taken important steps toward making the game more inclusive of the LGBTQ community. Two examples: TPC Harding Park hosting the inaugural Pride Open, organized by Greg Fitzgerald, the first out, gay male PGA teaching pro, and the USGA raising Pride flags at its headquarters in June and sharing an

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How the architect of Bandon Dunes balances the pursuit of critical and commercial success

Thu, 25 Jun 2020 07:17:59 +0000

What do artists desire most: critical acclaim or commercial success? They aren’t mutually exclusive, and every creator desires both, but rarely, in any medium, do the two overlap entirely. When he was younger, the always outspoken Kidd might have strived purely for critical consideration, embracing the notion that the artist’s role is to push the

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