Pacifica - Sharp Park golf course is 80 years old, a classic and all-organic

Lets hope to celebrate the 81st year golf course anniversary, and many more to come!

Pacifica Tribune/Horace Hinshaw Sports Editor, 4/24/12.  "Environmental friendly Sharp Park."

"But, who will protect snakes and frogs from me?"

"On April 16, 1932, the Sharp Park Golf Course opened with 400 golfers playing the Alister Mackenzie course. Last week, on Monday, April 16, on the 80th anniversary of the golf course I was at Sharp Park at 6 a.m. to talk to the first golfers of the day.

..."Many people don't realize that for the past four years Sharp Park has been an all-organic golf course," exclaims Kappelman. "We do not use pesticides. No chemical derived fertilizers or chemical treatment for the weeds. It's been a challenge to eradicate some of the weeds and keep them under control and still maintain good playing conditions." 

Everything we are doing here to protect the endangered species by being all-organic, I think we're going far and beyond what most courses or entities would do to protect these species," said Kappelman, who credits the San Francisco Recreation Department for the environmental initiative. "That's really a credit to our department and the golf course. It's been very successful. We've seen the frog population really increase and we're still able to maintain a very good golf course as well. We're one of a few golf courses in the country that is organic." Read Article.

* Wayne Kappelman is Sharp Park Golf Course superintendent.

Course information- World Golf.

Posted by Kathy Meeh