PGA Tour trying to resolve Harding Park quandary
Nothing is ever simple when it comes to golf in San Francisco. The city’s contract with the PGA Tour calls for the “penultimate playoff event” to be held at Harding Park in 2013 or ’14. The language is...
View ArticleCity’s revised deal would lock in PGA Tour for 2016
The proposal to revise San Francisco’s contract with the PGA Tour calls for the next high-profile tour event to come to Harding Park in 2016, The Chronicle has learned. The potential revisions –...
View ArticleCody Blick putts his way to SF City title
Cody Blick’s 30-foot birdie putt on No. 12 did not gently disappear into the hole – it rattled, hopped and fell into the side of the cup. Blick’s opponent, Weston Payne, turned away and animatedly...
View ArticlePGA Tour jumps the gun on revised deal with SF
The proposal to revise San Francisco’s contract with the PGA Tour comes before the Rec & Park Commission Thursday. The new deal probably will gain approval – a sensible outcome, because the city...
View ArticleHarding Park joins U.S. Open qualifying
The Bay Area’s involvement in next month’s U.S. Open is growing even more. Harding Park has joined Lake Merced Golf Club as a venue for sectional qualifying June 4, according to two sources. So many...
View ArticleBob May, Michael Allen in U.S. Open sectional field
Fourteen years ago, the last time the U.S. Open came to San Francisco, Harding Park filled a distinctly subservient role: Cars parked on the course’s then-haggard, weed-covered fairways. This time,...
View ArticleTiger Woods and John Daly in early hunt at PGA Championship
Hey, since when did Harding Park relocate to the coastline of South Carolina? Today’s early leaderboard at the PGA Championship stirred visions of Harding circa 2005. It wasn’t especially surprising to...
View ArticleSchwab Cup returning to Harding Park in 2013
Harding Park is getting back in the game. The Schwab Cup Championship, the season-ending event on the Champions Tour, will return to Harding next year, tour officials will formally announce soon. The...
View ArticleHarding Park might need new greens for future marquee events
In case you missed it, here’s my story from Saturday’s Sporting Green on the future tour events coming to Harding Park — and the renovations likely on tap at the municipal course alongside Lake Merced....
View ArticleFirst Tee Open at Pebble Beach moves back to September
The Champions Tour released its 2013 schedule today, with two stops on tap in Northern California. The First Tee Open at Pebble Beach, played in July the past two years, will move back to September....
View ArticleBeware, kids: Adults still in the fray at SF City Championship
Here’s the lead item in my golf column in today’s Sporting Green, on SF City championship quarterfinalist Andrew Biggadike: Hey, look! Adults are still playing in the San Francisco City Championship!...
View ArticleBrueckner, Cathrea win SF City Championship titles
As usual, teenagers ran the show in today’s finals of the San Francisco City Golf Championship – and these kids know their history. Livermore’s Casie Cathrea steamed to a 10-and-8 victory over Jayshree...
View ArticleCity plans to replace all 18 greens at Harding Park
The city of San Francisco will replace all 18 greens at Harding Park, a renovation project scheduled to start in early December and wrap up by May 1, 2014. Phil Ginsburg, general manager of the...
View ArticleSchwab Cup to leave Harding Park for Arizona in 2014 and ’16
The Schwab Cup Championship is on the move again. Champions Tour officials announced today that their season-ending tournament, scheduled for Harding Park later this year (Oct. 31-Nov. 3), will return...
View ArticleSF native Ken Venturi, 1964 U.S. Open champion, dies at age 82
Ken Venturi, a San Francisco native who learned how to play golf at Harding Park, memorably won the 1964 U.S. Open and later built a long and distinguished career as a television analyst, died Friday...
View ArticleMichael Allen returns to Bay Area knowing how to win
Here’s an early look at the lead to my golf column in Thursday’s Sporting Green: No golfer appreciates the Champions Tour more than Michael Allen does. In his younger days, Allen was good enough to...
View ArticleKenny Perry seeks to finish off strong season at Harding Park
Here’s an early look at my story in Wednesday’s Sporting Green: Kenny Perry knows all about the cool air and tree-lined fairways of Harding Park. He played in the American Express Championship in 2005,...
View ArticleCouples hopes to end winless run at Harding
Fred Couples counts as the biggest name in this week’s Schwab Cup Championship – but he’s still seeking his first victory of 2013, after winning eight times the three previous seasons. Couples has four...
View ArticleTriplett forges ahead, one year after losing caddie
Two weeks ago, when the Champions Tour made its annual stop in Conover, N.C. for the Greater Hickory Classic, one prominent player stayed home. Kirk Triplett couldn’t bring himself to return to North...
View ArticleSenior leads and Couples lurks at Schwab Cup
Peter Senior, an affable Australian, seized the early lead in the Schwab Cup Championship today by zipping around Harding Park in 8-under-par 63. That’s nice and all, but most fans were busy watching...
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