Lincoln Park Golf Course

Lincoln Park Golf Course is San Francisco's oldest municipal course and one of the most architecturally layered public tracks in California, a century-old routing with contributions from four significant architects across its 120+ year history. Jack Neville (co-designer of Pebble Beach) laid out the original three-hole course in 1902 on what had been Potter's Field cemetery, then expanded it to six holes. City park superintendent John McLaren then brought in Tom Bendelow (the most prolific course designer of the early 20th century) to reroute and expand; Bendelow is generally acknowledged as the 18-hole course designer and the course reached full 18 holes in early 1917. Herbert Fowler (Englishman, designer of Walton Heath and co-designer of Cruden Bay) executed a revision in 1921, and longtime California architect Jack Fleming contributed later renovations. The course sits on San Francisco's northwest coast inside Lincoln Park at Land's End, the setting includes views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the Pacific from several tee boxes, and the mature cypress-and-Monterey-pine corridors define fairway playing shapes. At park-muni pricing with four genuine Golden Age architect credits, Lincoln Park is the must-visit architectural history round for the San Francisco / Bay Area trip visitor, paired naturally with TPC Harding Park (Willie Watson / Sam Whiting, 1925) for a pedigree-first two-round SF muni day.