Harding Park is amazing.

This course is a tragedy. My dad and I play here all the time when he comes up from LA and I am embarassed for the course. The greens are ALWAYS in poor shape, the fairways are a joke. The tee boxes often have tons of divots and are on a side hill lie. Its tough to get a good shot here. The fairways that are short enough to not qualify as rough, are all on a side hill lie, so if you hit a GREAT shot, you are penalized when it runs down the hill into the "rougher rough" or you get a side hill lie on the "fairway rough".

The best thing about this course is what makes it worth teh money, 17. This hole is what is good about this course and is worth the 20 bucks alone. The views of the Golden Gate Bridge, the bay, the skyline, the ocean, hte legion of honor and all the wildlife make this course magical. The same course that is so dirty and poorly cared for provides the most magnificent views anywhere. Imagine standing at the tee box and looking down 220 yards to the green, with the Golden Gate Bridge in the background. Or, standing on top of a hill, with classical statues next to you, looking down 500 yards at a green with the San Francisco Skyline in the background. These are worth pretty much any greens fees you will pay.

These same magnificent pieces are what exemplifies the worst of this course. You are distracted by the beauty by the poor conditions. Whatever day you pick to go out there, its just about guaranteed that at least one green will be closed, and there will be tire tracks on two others. Its criminal how poor this course is kept, and it makes me want to go out and pay the 18mil it would cost to rebirth this golfing jewel of Northern California.

Played a couple of weeks ago. Two weeks after Rain and the course was fairly wet. There are so many trees that there are shadows everywhere. The 4th(?) hole is a par three that is ALWAYS in bad shape due to a persistant nematode infection.

I love the course, but its in too bad of shape too much of the year.