re: San Francisco Golf Recs

I don’t get the PGA’s love for Harding Park. It’s good for a city owned course, but it should be considering the money they sink in to it. Just within 2-3 miles of it, Olympic, SF GC, and Cal Club are all much better tracks.

One of the coolest things about Harding Park is you can look across Lake Merced and see how the Lake course at Olympic is stacked up on the side of a huge hill. It’s hard to get the scale of the elevation change when you’re actually playing Olympic.

Pasatiempo is a really fun course and probably the closest you’ll ever get to putting on Augusta's greens. That said, over development on the front 9 and some quirks like the forced rows of trees between 6, 7, and 8 (added later on to protect people from getting hit by errant shots) take away some of it’s original luster.

If you can drive a bit, but can’t make it all the way to Pasatiempo, check out Cinnabar Hills in San Jose. It’s a severely underrated course.