Harding Park: #2
View from no. 2 at Harding Park (Courtesy of KemperLesnik)
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3.9
483 Reviews (483)
5 Stars
236
4 Stars
145
3 Stars
55
2 Stars
28
1 Stars
19
Conditions
3.6
Value
3.4
Layout
4.2
Friendliness
4.3
Pace
4.2
Amenities
3.9
78.9%
Recommend this course
399 out of 483 reviews
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4.0
5 Reviews (5)
5 Stars
1
4 Stars
3
3 Stars
1
2 Stars
0
1 Stars
0
Conditions
3.4
Value
2.8
Layout
3.8
Pace
3.8
Amenities
3.6
StaffFriendliness
4.6
80.0%
Recommend this course
4 out of 5 reviews
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3.8
21 Reviews (21)
5 Stars
6
4 Stars
9
3 Stars
3
2 Stars
1
1 Stars
2
Conditions
3.4
Value
3.2
Layout
4.0
Pace
4.1
Amenities
3.8
StaffFriendliness
4.2
76.2%
Recommend this course
16 out of 21 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

3.9
483 Reviews (483)

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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Reviews 20
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 20
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 167
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
Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a month
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Truly a gem in the bay area

This was my first time playing at this course so I didn't really know what to expect. I knew that this was highly rated as a municipal course, and I totally agree. This course is in fantastic shape, and even better condition than some private clubs that I've been to. The fairways were well kept, and the bunkers were soft. The greens were rolling a little slow, but rolled true. The only criticism I had was the pace of play. It could have been a little bit faster, however, for a weekend, I really can't complain too much. I'll remember this experience and plan on coming back to play more.

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Average
Played On
Reviews 10
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played

Course is playing excellent

The course is in the best shape I’ve seen in a long time

Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 91
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played
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
4.0
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 91
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 3
Skill Intermediate
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing

Awesome Course

I had such a fun time venturing out from the east bay to play this gem of a course. So awesome to have an opportunity to play a “pga tour” level course that happens to be public and at a relatively not so astronomical price. Such a nice pace of play given that most people walk, eliminating the hectic rat race of golf carts zipping all over the place like at many other muni courses. Although the 1.5 hour drive each way in traffic and price north of $125 to play will make this an occasional treat for me it definitely will be my go to course when I want to splurge a bit. Can’t wait to visit again.

Conditions Excellent
Value Average
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Excellent
Played On
Reviews 34
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
Verified Purchaser
First Time Playing
Perfect weather
Walked

Overall good except slow green

Pros : nice weather, joining good players, smooth pace.

Cons : slow green, tresspassors

Overall, I would like to revisit if the greens can be a little faster than I played, but not paying more than $100 per walking.

Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Good
Difficulty Moderate
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Good
Value Excellent
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Played On
Reviews 1
Skill Intermediate
Plays Once a week
I Recommend This Course
5.0
Previously Played
Conditions Excellent
Value Good
Layout Excellent
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Excellent
Amenities Good
Played On
Reviews 5
Skill Advanced
Plays A few times a week
I Recommend This Course
4.0
First Time Playing
Conditions Average
Value Good
Layout Average
Friendliness Good
Pace Good
Amenities Average
Played On
Reviews 2
Handicap 10-14
Skill Advanced
Plays Once a week
3.0
Verified Purchaser
Previously Played
Cold weather
Walked

Pace of play terrible.

Stood on the tees and in the fairways over and over again, just waiting. Answered emails, though, so that was good.

Conditions Average
Value Fair
Layout Good
Friendliness Excellent
Pace Poor
Amenities Average
Difficulty Somewhat Challenging
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