"There'll be no diversity outreach goin' on in our locker room, Mr Mayor..."

It was while examining the options for One Destination on Three Bankrolls: San Francisco that I came across the question mark currently hanging over municipal courses in the city by the bay:

"The City of San Francisco is currently conducting a three-month study to evaluate possible alternate uses of their golf courses"

While threats to golfing acres are never good news (although I don't see Harding Park being used for social housing any time soon) it's especially glum for a course like Lincoln Park, which has not only history like this but also views like this.

Those views, it must be said, are what make it, for a dazzling test of golf it isn't (or a pristine one: count those daisies...) but if it's the kind of place that allows those to dip their toe in golf's waters who might otherwise have been economically forced to do something else with their Saturdays, then it deserves both survival and a revamp.

The course where it all began for me was no Augusta, either, yet it owns a corner of my heart forever.


[pic courtesy of grismarengo]