Sharp Park Golf Course

Alister MacKenzie's 1931 Sharp Park in Pacifica, the world's only MacKenzie-designed municipal seaside links (sharing that distinction only with the Eden Course at St. Andrews, which MacKenzie did not design). A course that sits in rare architectural company alongside Augusta National, Cypress Point, and Royal Melbourne. And you can tee off for under $50. MacKenzie built two mirror versions of his famous 'Lido Hole' here, the design that catapulted him to architectural fame in 1914, which is unique in world golf. Signature MacKenzie tropes are all over: cross bunkering, double fairways, multiple tees, mounded greens, undulating fairways, optical illusions. Twelve of the eighteen holes are still the original MacKenzie designs; time and funding erosion account for the other six. Golfweek named Sharp Park (with Harding Park) among 'America's 50 Greatest Municipal Courses' in 2014. Known informally as 'The Poor Man's Pebble Beach.' A bucket-list round for anyone studying MacKenzie's architectural legacy, pair with TPC Harding Park across Lake Merced for a two-course San Francisco weekend rooted in classical Golden Age design.