National Golf Advisor considers Sharp Park #1 to save and improve

Article linked from San Francisco Golf Alliance and San Francisco Public Golf Alliance articles, National Golf Press Clippings:  Sharp Park is the top US priority for Muni golf restoration, 6/26/19.

Sharp park Golf Course is worth saving

Golf Advisor, in a May 2019 article, called Sharp Park the highest priority – #1 – on its list of the 10 American municipal golf courses “most worth saving”: "Architects Tom Doak and Jay Blasi, a Bay Area resident, gave recommendations to mow out the 10th and 18th greens to their original shapes created by MacKenzie in 1932.. Sharp Park, which is blessed with some very attractive forested holes and other greens near a walking path along the Pacific Ocean, aches for upgrades..." 

Reference:  Specific Sharp park Golf Course article from the Golf Advisor link: Golf Advisor, Jason Scott Deegan, 5/14/19, "Wish List: 10 Municipal golf course worth saving. These aging munis have great bones or historic pedigrees and could be revived with a proper renovation and more TLC."
# 1.  Sharp Park Golf Course, Pacifica, CA. Revitalizing Sharp Park near San Francisco has been an ongoing drama since 2007, when the San Francisco Public Golf Alliance was formed by Richard Harris and Bo Links, two local attorneys who successfully fought off a lawsuit from an environmental group that wanted to shutter the historic course designed by Dr. Alister MacKenzie. In 2018, Sharp Park was finally able to move forward with slow but steady improvements. Architects Tom Doak and Jay Blasi, a Bay Area resident, gave recommendations to mow out the 10th and 18th greens to their original shapes created by MacKenzie in 1932. Last July, San Francisco Recreation & Parks hiked the green fees by $2 per nine holes to raise money for future improvement projects at both Sharp Park and Lincoln Park, which sports views of the Golden Gate Bridge. Sharp Park, which is blessed with some very attractive forested holes and other greens near a walking path along the Pacific Ocean, aches for upgrades and better management to cure slow play issues.
Golf Advisor user romeogolf didn't pull any punches in this recent review: "On the ocean, Mackenzie designed, muni owned. What else could you ask for? But my goodness, that literally may have been the worst course conditions I’ve ever played in. The grass on the fairways is literally longer than the rough. And, they apparently don’t believe in removing the cuttings from the last mow. Shameful for a city to lay waste to a beautiful property like that. Especially in the Bay Area, where the tax base is the highest in the USA. Pathetic. Staff was super, I feel for them."

Note photographs. Sharp Park Golf Course Clubhouse by Neil Hallare, 9/6/10 found on Yellowbout.
Posted by Kathy Meeh