TPC Harding Park - Harding Course

We played twilight on a Saturday afternoon. Finished in about 4.5 hours and the marshall was urging us to pick up the pace. White sand bunkers are challenging to escape. Beautiful course with views of the Olympic club. Don't miss out on the great practice facilities.

I was really looking forward to play but what a disappointment . The course condition was pretty sad for a TPC course, greens were very slow and boring. Only couple of hole needs to think about where to hit the tee shot. Not a good value and I will not be back.

The greens are simply UNPLAYABLE now. I repeat UNPLAYABLE. I played last month and thought the greens were awful. They did a sneak attack fertilizing and after you paid casually mentioned they had been top dressed. Covered with Rice Crispies was more like it. Harding refunded many green fees that day. They told me the greens would be much better by next month. The greens are much WORSE. DO NOT BE FOOLED INTO PLAYING THIS COURSE. THEY ARE CHARGING TOP DOLLAR. THE GREENS ARE WORSE THAN THE WORST MUNI. This is a sad day for me. I loved this course... R.I.P. HARDING...

This is a sad day for me. I loved this course. RIP Harding...

What a fun round I had. I was paired up with 3 other golfers which is to be expected. The clubhouse is small, but I didn't go for the clubhouse, I went for the golf. The starter started us off of hole 10 earlier than my tee time, so that was nice because I read reviews that they never do that. The course is in excellent condition even with the horrible drought we are having here in California. The rough is a little deep as they are getting ready for the PGA to play there in 2015. The fairways were great, some were getting a fresh coating of sand but nothing that you can't play off of. The greens were also in great shape but a lot slower than what I usually play. The only thing I guess you can call a gripe and it is very minor is the Marshal who we only saw once the whole round told us that we needed to speed up. We already hit off the tee on a par 4 and the group in front of us was just walking up to the green (not understanding how we were playing slow and the group behind us wasn't even on their green yet, but I read other reviews about the same exact encounter with the marshals). Overall it was a great experience and had to play TPC Harding Park before I leave the area.

Don't get me wrong this is a really nice golf course, just not sure if it compares to the other TPC courses across the nation.

Note: As I understand this course is always cart path only, so if you can walk, plan on it; It's easily walkable.

Greens and fairways were perfect! No challenges with any lies anywhere!

The driving range is space challenged, and has nets all around, but the putting / chipping greens are fine.

Very nice course that is well maintained and a friendly staff. Fairways and greens were all in very good shape. This a course that you need to play at both ground and tree level. At fairway level the course looks pretty open. The challenges is the overhang of these older growth trees on the fairways. It is not unusual to be in the fairway but have an obstructed shot because of the tree canopy and these trees don't let you through very often. Expect your ball to go somewhere you don't want.

Front 9 is interior to the grounds and somewhat protected from the ocean breezes. The Back 9 goes around the perimeter. Picturesque but also picks up more influence from the breezes across Lake Merced. Save some strokes for 18. This long par 4 will try take a stroke or 2 from you on this challenging finish hole.

A major greens keeper mishap made for a really bad putting experience.

This unquestionably is a great course! It's well maintained and has a somewhat challenging layout. The green fees are way overpriced if you don't have an SF residents card, but a good value if you do have one!

I would have given the course a 4.5 rating but I felt treated rather poorly and taken advantage of. Only when we checked in, were we told that "some" maintenance work was carried out. Since we had prepaid, we didn't have the option to just walk out neither were also not offered a rain check.

The "some" maintenance work turned out to ruin the game, the greens had been freshly fertilized with some heavy stuff which didn't let the ball run a true line. The fairways were heavily sanded; the ball would land in a cloud of dust and stop cold.

In my opinion, it is totally unreasonable to carry out this type of work during regular play, especially when charging the type of green fees we had to pay. We will not be coming back anytime soon.

I have been playing here for over 30 years and the course is in it's best shape ever - greens are a bit slow and rough has been cleaned up - didn't lose a ball all day - great playing conditions - bring on the pros!

Course in great shape. New Greens are still not fast but roll true.

Harding is a great course. Very good layout. Has the name because President's Cup and Senior PGA. Definitely a tour quality track. Course is in good condition, but greens were slower the day I played. Practice facilities are just average.

Staff is rude and don't know how to handle book a course, so they probably shouldn't be working in the golf customer service industry. The course was empty and I mean empty. 3 groups went out around 3pm and I broke off from my group and nobody was in front of me for entire front 9. The staff rushed me and acted like there was no space on the course. They acted like it was some major golf tournament on PGA tour.

I have talked to many people that live in the area and they avoid Harding Park even though they get amazing resident rates because the staff treatment to customers is so bad.

For a TPC course i was not very happy, customer service was horrible, fairways were the only nice part, greens were top dressed with a mixture of sand and tiny rocks and we were told there were no issues with the course and it was in perfect condition, i don't think so.

Pay the Hot Deal rate of $69 or less otherwise its not worth it. The range is off mats and can't hit driver.

Haeding Park is a fantastoc golf course in great shape. Would've been nice to know greens were being top dressed with sand when tee time made on golf now website but greens rolled very well anyway and the round was enjoyable. Pace of play was superb and finished in 4 hours.

Clubhouse, facilities and other facilities are mediocre at best and very dated. Golf experience lived up to all my expectations but everything else does not live up to TPC experiences I've had at other facilities. Food was average and overpriced. Bar staff was nice but counter top was sticky and the area smelled foul like it hasn't been cleaned very well.

Overall, I'd play this course again in the future but would not recommend food service or spending much time getting drinks after the round.

Great course in awesome shape. A little dangerous at times because of proximity of holes. Thoroughly enjoyed it!

Temp was in the upper 50's while the rest of the Bay Area was in upper 60's and 70's. Started play at before 3 and finished with plenty of daylight. This is a nice course but wasn't that impressed compared the TPC courses I have played around the country. For a TPC course the greens were SLOW. The range you are hitting off of mats with well used yellow range balls. The putting green and chipping green were nice though. This course you have to at least draw the ball on 4 holes. If you get stuck behind a cypress tree you are guaranteed a bogey. Sand traps were not consistent. Some were really fluffy and others were like hard pan. Tee boxes were not level and had to be careful where you tee it to not have a hanging lie. To me the price with the Golfnow was ok but not worth it since it played like a average muni, and for a TPC course it did not play to one. I would only recommend this course just for the history this course has.

As all ways! Harding is the Best in SF! Perfect Weather! And the course is well maintained.

This was our second time here. Wonderful golf course. San Francisco brings a whole new gem when it comes to golf courses. Harding was simply beautiful. Douggiefresh and I had a great time and met some true people. Keek and Eric who we played with. We had a great time! Fairways dialed out. Rough was real rough. Greens could have been a little faster. Overall awesome track with great history. I highly recommend playing. I wanted to go back the next day to play it again!!

It's worth it if you get a deal from Golfnow ($68 with cart) otherwise a pretty expensive round for non-residents.

Course conditions are great as to be expected for a TPC course but the greens were running slow.

Pace of play was slow. We waited on every tee box,
almost did not finish due to lack of daylight.

18th Hole is one of the tougher and better holes.

In what I thought in the beginning was going to easy scoring with postcard scenery on the most beautiful course in Northern California, if not the Northwest turned out to be one of championship challenge of which I had notable protest. First of all, a public course should never give everyday players a 580 yrd par 5 and not expect slow play will be created. Also, the slight undulation of fairways and unpredictable greens made the ability to birdie and par on a regular basis nearly impossible, nonetheless,it is by far, S.F. best course, even though breaking 80 will have to be lifted up 2 Tiger, Phil, Rory, Sergio and friends because those guys are good.

The course and setting was good. However, there was no comment about temp. green on the day, Warning mentioned only bunkers are out of play. Temp greens were about 50 yards in front of real green and they were just holes in the middle of fairway for all 18 holes. Almost gave up the game after the 2nd hole but decided to practice driver and have a cart ride.