Sharp Park

Action Alert

We need your help to make sure that you can continue enjoying this historic, affordable course.

This fall, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors will consider an ordinance to close Sharp Park, the only existing MacKenzie-designed public seaside golf course in the world, to protect two threatened species. Anti-golf activists claim that driving off the golfers is the only way to protect the red-legged frog and San Francisco garter snake that live on the course. That claim is simply false. 

The San Francisco Public Golf Alliance, working together with environmentalists, historic preservationists, muni golfers and the City of Pacifica, is developing a financially sound plan to save the MacKenzie golf shrine, while simultaneously improving natural habitat and preserving affordable, eco-friendly golf.

History

Sharp Park has been called a "treasure of international golf architecture, by one of history’s great artists." What makes this course so special is not just its unique design heritage, but that it is a public course--a public course in a spectacular setting, loved and played by a diverse group of residents and visitors to San Francisco and the Northern Peninsula. Men, women and children of all ages, ethnicities, and lifestyles gather for exercise, companionship and competition in a highly accessible and affordable setting.

Click here to read a stirring letter detailing Sharp Park’s history, Dr. MacKenie’s approach to golf and to learn what makes this seaside links course "a Bit of Scotland on the Pacific."

Golfers Speak

Golfers at Sharp Park are a diverse community bound together by passion for the game and love for this historic public course.  Watch the video below and read excerpts from their letters to local public officials.  

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