Harding Park: #2
View from no. 2 at Harding Park (Courtesy of KemperLesnik)
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4.0
494 Reviews (494)
5 Stars
242
4 Stars
150
3 Stars
55
2 Stars
28
1 Stars
19
Conditions
3.8
Value
3.4
Layout
4.2
Friendliness
4.3
Pace
4.2
Amenities
3.8
79.4%
Recommend this course
409 out of 494 reviews
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4.4
15 Reviews (15)
5 Stars
7
4 Stars
7
3 Stars
1
2 Stars
0
1 Stars
0
Conditions
4.3
Value
3.7
Layout
4.2
Pace
4.5
Amenities
3.9
StaffFriendliness
4.5
86.7%
Recommend this course
13 out of 15 reviews
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3.9
26 Reviews (26)
5 Stars
8
4 Stars
12
3 Stars
3
2 Stars
1
1 Stars
2
Conditions
3.7
Value
3.3
Layout
4.0
Pace
4.2
Amenities
3.8
StaffFriendliness
4.3
76.9%
Recommend this course
20 out of 26 reviews
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Course Highlights
TPC Harding Park impresses with its highly rated layout, featuring majestic trees, scenic views, and a genuinely challenging back nine. Friendly staff, smooth pace of play, and quality on-site dining make each round a well-rounded experience.

About

Holes 18
Type Public
Par 72
Length 7169 yards
Slope 129
Rating 74.3

TPC Harding Park ranks among the most famous municipal courses in the country, along with Torrey Pines South and Bethpage Black. TPC Harding Park, which is part of the San Franciso Recreation and Parks Department, hugs the shores of Lake Merced in close proximity to the Lake Merced Golf Club, The Olympic Club and San Francisco Golf Club. Dating to 1925, it has a long history of tournament golf among its stately Monterey Cypress trees. Byron Nelson won back-to-back San Francisco Opens in 1944-45. The PGA Tour's Lucky International in the 1960s attracted winners such as Gary Player (1961), Gene Littler (1962), Jackie Burke Jr. (1963), Ken Venturi (1966) and Billy Casper (1968).

After falling on hard times, the course received a $16-million renovation in 2002-03 that brought it back into the tournament fold, hosting the 2005 World Golf Championship-American Express Championship, the 2015 WGC-Match Play Championship, The Presidents Cup in 2009, the Charles Schwab Cup Championship from 2010-12 and the 2020 PGA Championship, its first major.

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Course Details

Year Built 1925
Golf Season Year round
Architect Willie Watson (1925) Sam Whiting (1925) Chris Gray (2003) Jack Fleming (1934)

Rentals/Services

Carts Yes - $25
GPS No
Pull-carts Yes
Caddies No
Clubs Yes

Practice/Instruction

Driving Range Yes
Teaching Pro Yes

Policies

Credit Cards Accepted VISA, MasterCard, Discover Welcomed
Metal Spikes Allowed No
Fivesomes Allowed No
Single Allowed No
Walking Allowed Yes
Dress code Proper golf attire.

Food & Beverage

Bar, Grill

Available Facilities

Clubhouse, Banquet Facilities

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Reviews

4.0
494 Reviews (494)

What Golfers Are Saying

The 19th Hole is Great For:
Drinks 12
Patio Dining 12
19th Hole Scenic Views 11
Course Challenges Include:
Thick Rough 23
Bunkers 19
Plays Long 15
This course/club is great for:
Walkers 25
Locals 22
Advanced Golfers 21
This Course's Location is:
Convenient to the City 33
Worth the Drive 13
Near the Airport 10

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Played On
Reviews 6
Handicap 10-14
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Wet weather
Used cart

Probably not worth $190 unless you haven’t played it

Wet and windy day so we took a cart. Cart path only so it didn’t help much. Greens slow and not in great condition. Best public in SF, but $190 is a lot, unless you have never played it, because you should play it.

Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Extremely Challenging
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 19
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Schöner Parklandcourse

Schöner parklandcourse, etwas langsame Grüns aber sonst sehr schön

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 19
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Nice parkland course

The greens are wet and bumpy because a lot of pitchmarks did not repaired

Fairways and bunkers in good condition

Conditions Good
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 4
Handicap 0-4
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Previously Played

Great back 9

Great finishing holes, greens are in bad shape. Full of ballmarks, and slow. I mean SLOW. Slower than a lot of fairways at other courses. I play here once a year because that’s about how long it takes me to forget how overrated it is and build up false hope that the conditions will be better than last time. Worth playing once just to check it off a list but there are much better courses. Not sure how TPC allows their name to be attached to this course

Conditions Fair
Value Fair
Layout Average
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 42
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 11
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 11
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 12
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Conditions Good
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
2.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Extremely annoyed and disappointed

I feel deceived and ripped off. I called the pro shop the day before I played which was when I booked, to check if any course renovations had occurred, and was told, no, they were done in August, so I booked, when I arrived the greens were slow and had clearly had some work done to them, in addition, because of the work, they scuffed incredibly badly, too badly to be able to repair all of the marks. Then as I was teeing off on the first, you could see the course staff punching the fairways. I would not have booked had the pro shop staff been honest, as the course isn’t worth what they charge, even in pristine condition, and the way it was presented, it wasn’t even worth half the fee.

Conditions Fair
Value Poor
Layout Average
Friendliness Average
Pace Fair
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 21
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Battered tee boxes

I absolutely love the layout of this course. The greens are pretty good mostly and the fairways are challenging to navigate. The tee boxes should not be in such terrible shape for the small fortune that they charge for a round. If you’re charging over 200 for a tee time you should be lazer-leveling the tee boxes as often as you can. Half of the tee boxes were angled forward forcing you to either hit down on the ball or take a gallon of earth on your swing. The fairways are super spongy when you start your transition you actually sink about half an inch and guess what! You end up chunking the ball by that much. Just because it’s not the US open every day doesn’t mean you can let your course go to the dogs. You have a reputation to uphold and definitely charge people accordingly so just be better.

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Fair
Played On
Reviews 21
Handicap 5-9
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

White tee boxes look like someone was playing golf with a chainsaw

If you want to tee off on super uneven ground that is torn up and not maintained then this is the course for you. The fairways and greens are beautiful and despite charging each person hundreds of dollars and having a packed tee sheet they do NOTHING about fixing the tee boxes. If the tee box isn’t chewed up then it is angled forward 45 degrees. Good luck and god speed

Conditions Poor
Value Fair
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 6
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played

Great Day Out at Harding

Great course, great weather…couldn’t ask for anything more!

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 2
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
2.0
First Time Playing

What in the Fremont Golf is this

Only been playing for 3 years but never have I seen a fairway sanded... the back 9, they started us off on 10, was sanded and punched not the greens but the whole back 9. The first 9 was not sanded but the greens punched. If it wasn't for the hotDeals I would literally asked for my money back. Literally 18 holes of Fremont park. At least all the greens are slow at Fremont. It felt like they were rotating every 3 holes from slow to super slow, it will literally affect your next round because of how slow it was. Pace was great because I think the word is out how bad the conditions are

Conditions Poor
Value Poor
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Poor
Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Lush and Beautiful

Fantastic experience.

Fairways were exceptional, tee boxes and greens fantastic. Lush and thick like a good (is there such a thing ??) shag carpet. Greens were on the slow side.

Although there were a few parallel fairways, the trees kept other groups from being a factor in you playing your hole. Great to see restrooms recently constructed on the course.

Only issues I encountered was regarding the driving range. Was looking forward to the TopTracer technology, but was disappointed with connectivity issue. This and the fact that you hit off of mats fell a little short.

💯 recommend at least once !!

Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 34
Handicap 25+
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
4.0
Previously Played
Cold weather
Walked

Slow green

The front 9 had relatively slow green with respect to the green fee, and the back 9 green showed some grass growing up, looked not rolled at all. I felt the back 9 green has similar quality of Bayonet's fairway.

I wish they can manage the green way better than now.

Conditions Average
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Good
Pace Excellent
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
Played On
Reviews 169
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Top 100 Contributor
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Harding is a must play

I finally got a great deal to play at Harding. A must play course will challenge your club choice. Well groomed course. Super sticky grass. Club up to cut through it. Take your time on the putting. Ball rolls good but tricky pin placements can lead to shooting past hole. Have a great time out. And stretch before you walk it.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
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