New Members and Volunteers Needed for the Save Sharp Park Campaign

WANTED: NEW MEMBERS Those who wish to eliminate Sharp Park have deep pockets and powerful friends.  We must build our membership and show City Hall that we have a strong, diverse membership.  We need your help recruiting new SFPGA members: friends, family, co-workers and golf buddies.  You can help us create a strong organization that can protect and advocate for affordable golf into the future.  Can you please take a few minutes and personally sign-up anyone you know who cares about public golf in the City?  Please visit this link and sign-up new members here: http://sfpublicgolf.com/member-signup.  Thank you for doing your part to save Sharp Park Golf Course. WANTED: SOLDIERS We're still looking for volunteers to help us gather letters and signatures from players at golf courses around San Francisco.  The Board of Supervisors may vote on Sup. John Avalos' plan to wipe out Sharp Park within the next few weeks, and we must demonstrate broad-based local support for public golf in the City.  If you can spare an hour or two, please contact our volunteer coordinator Andrew Brown anytime at 415-519-5318 or thesfpga@gmail.com. BAY AREA GOLF CLUB JOINS THE FIGHT!  The San Francisco-based Bay Area Golf Club, a mostly African-American club which was one of the six founding clubs of the Western States Golf Association - one of the oldest African American golfing organizations in America - has joined our fight and written a powerful letter to our elected leaders in support of Sharp Park. Bay Area Golf Club hosted the inaugural Western States championship tournament at Sharp Park in 1955.  They join other several other ethnic clubs -- Mabuhay Golf Club (Filipino-American), the Golden Hill Golf Club (Chinese-American) and the Mexican American Golf Association -- in supporting Sharp Park.  The President of the Bay Area Golf Club, Nathaniel Jackson, had these eloquent things to say: "Sharp Park is part of San Francisco's egalitarian tradition of providing great classical architecture for its public places . . . If San Francisco were to destroy this golf course, the city would be telling our members and those other minority and working-class golfers that the city does not respect or care about them . . . We thank you for your efforts to preserve the historic Alister MacKenzie golf course at Sharp Park. And we urge you to resist those who would destroy it." THANKS TO PACIFICA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOR ITS SAVE SHARP PARK TOURNAMENT. Thanks to the Pacific Chamber of Commerce and all who played in the Chamber's Save Sharp Park tournament on Monday, October 17.  Your support for Sharp Park is greatly appreciated.  Let's do it again soon. Donations are greatly appreciated. To donate, please visit our website: Donations Page

Submittted by Richard Harris