Griffith Park Golf Courses (Harding)

Overview: Within Griffith Park, Harding is a public municipal layout of eighteen holes in Los Angeles, set within the park’s oak, walnut and canyon landscape. City of Los Angeles material credits George C. Thomas with the original design and William P. Bell and William Johnson with later changes. The available official page confirms the course identity and history, but does not publish a reliable current par or yardage for Harding, so those fields remain blank.

History: Harding opened in August 1923 as Municipal No. 2, also called the Riverside course, and was renamed the Warren G. Harding Memorial Golf Course in 1924. The course hosted the Los Angeles City Championships from its early years and co-hosted the Los Angeles Open with Wilson from 1936 through 1938.

Did You Know? Harding was Griffith Park’s first all-grass golf course. Its place in a large urban park is part of the story: the course is not an isolated resort property, but one component of a broad municipal landscape that also includes natural chaparral and woodland.