{"id":13441,"date":"2013-08-25T01:59:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T08:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13441"},"modified":"2013-08-25T01:59:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T08:59:18","slug":"beach-golf-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/beach-golf-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"Beach Golf in San Francisco is Classic Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/3gcs.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"511\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Edging along the Pacific Ocean and Lake\u00a0Merced\u00a0(shown in photo) are four Bay Area golf courses that enjoy spectacular afternoon breezes, sometimes mixed with fog for extra challenges&#8211; Daly City&#8217;s Lake Merced Golf Club (private), \u00a0San Francisco&#8217;s The Olympic Club (private), San Francisco Club (private), and TPC Harding Park (public) which includes Fleming 9 hole course, as well as PGA 18 hole public golf course.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the private clubs host tournaments and have guest policies, but if you want to play a round of golf at a public course in San Francisco, head for TPC Harding Park (tpc.com). It has been a hit with visitors since its renovation in 2005 when\u00a0extra yardage was added to make it a 7,169-yard,\u00a0PGA-worthy venue, while rekindling the spirit of the 1929 era in which it was built. Golf Digest ranked it &#8220;one of the best places to play.&#8221; \u00a0There are\u00a0six public golf courses to enjoy in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california-cities\/san-francisco.html\">San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edging along the Pacific Ocean and Lake\u00a0Merced\u00a0(shown in photo) are four Bay Area golf courses that enjoy spectacular afternoon breezes, sometimes mixed with fog for extra challenges&#8211; Daly City&#8217;s Lake Merced Golf Club (private), \u00a0San Francisco&#8217;s The Olympic Club (private), San Francisco Club (private), and TPC Harding Park (public) which includes Fleming 9 hole course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13441"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}