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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.
- Courses
- 2 courses
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Courses
Course design
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.
Championships
- 2020 PGA ChampionshipHarding Park (TPC) Golf Club
- 2009 Presidents CupHarding Park (TPC) Golf Club
- 1981 Eureka Federal Savings ClassicHarding Park (TPC) Golf Club
- 1956 U.S. Amateur Public LinksHarding Park (TPC) Golf Club
View all 5 past editions
Results and dates 5 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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Presidents Cup
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United States (Presidents Cup)
In the archive
Sources and editorial notes8 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
- GOLF: Josh Sens, August 8, 2020
- 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 of America: 2020 TPC Harding Park facts and figures The PGA’s dated championship course account identifies the 1925 Watson and Whiting course beside Lake Merced as the 2020 PGA venue. It matches the existing main Harding Course identity; the separate Fleming nine is not assigned the championship.
- Presidents Cup official history The official history narrative records the 2009 venue and outcome.
- PGA TOUR: Official Presidents Cup Historical Host Table The PGA TOUR table names Harding Park GC as the 2009 host. The municipal owner distinguishes the named Harding Park course from Fleming, its separate nine-hole course. Connect the existing Harding Park identity, excluding Fleming. No historical setup or current par is changed.
- 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.