San Francisco, CA
Harding Park (TPC) Golf Club
San Francisco’s Harding Park opened beside Lake Merced on July 18, 1925, named for President Warren Harding. Decades of tournament play gave way to deterioration, and in 1998 the course served as parking for the U.S. Open at neighboring Olympic Club.1
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
- Courses
- 2 courses
- Club website
- Visit website
From parking lot back to championship golf
Former USGA president Sandy Tatum helped assemble support for its revival. A sixteen-million-dollar project in 2002–03 rebuilt the course and improved supporting facilities. Harding reopened on August 22, 2003, recovering a public golf ground that had been reduced to serving another venue’s championship.1
Courses
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Championships
Results and dates 4 editions
U.S. Amateur Public Links
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Bruce McCormick
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James H. Buxbaum
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Eureka Federal Savings Classic
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Don January
PGA Championship
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Collin Morikawa
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Sources and editorial notes5 references
Sources for this story
- History TPC Harding Park / PGA TOUR
Opening, parking-lot decline, Tatum-led restoration and 2003 reopening.
Consulted 2026-09-21
Record sources
- 2026 PGA Championship Media Guide The official Media Guide directly enumerates the 102nd playing, champion, site, and its year-page date span. The recorded venue and champion preserve the official PGA Championship History entry’s published text.
- PGA Championship host record The 2020 PGA record names TPC Harding Park. The host Club is verified; the exact course and routing used for this edition have not been confirmed.
- PGA TOUR: official 2006 Champions Tour media guide PDF page 243, printed 5-25, 1981 entry: Eureka Federal Savings Classic. Exact competitive-day boundaries remain unverified.
- USGA: Amateur Public Links results 1922-2014, 1956 results row Offline: archived primary source /Users/cwhitelam/Documents/AGA Research Archive/shared/usga-championship-records-20261024/amateur-public-links-results-1922-2014.html; SHA-256 f09d2cf13365029ab6057ae52ccc45fb100e1bd9696f028057e55f4b80a1ffe3. Exact result row: 1956 (July 9-14): James H. Buxbaum d. W.C. Scarbrough Jr., 3 and 2; Harding Park G.C., San Francisco, Calif.; Medalist — 141, D.M. McBeath; Entries: 1,921 Use the championship final, not the qualifying medalist. Match-play outcomes are not stroke totals. Current routing, scorecard and par are not asserted. Named Course identity is supported by the championship result or the archived primary routing evidence. The archived City owner and NGF report distinguish the 18-hole Harding Course from the separate Fleming nine built in 1961, after this event.