Lincoln Park Golf Course

Overview: Lincoln Park Golf Course is a public San Francisco course with a par-68 layout measuring about 5,416 yards. The city and public-golf sources describe a compact routing above the Golden Gate, with views toward the bridge and the Palace of the Legion of Honor complementing tree-lined and open coastal holes. Its scale and setting make it one of the city’s most distinctive municipal rounds.

History: Golf began at Lincoln Park with three holes in 1902, expanded to nine holes by 1909 and reached eighteen holes by 1918. Course references credit Tom Bendelow with the early layout work, while the city’s historical material confirms the course’s place as one of San Francisco’s oldest public golf sites.

Did You Know? The course is widely described as the oldest public golf course on the West Coast. That claim is tied to the long sequence from the original three-hole facility to the present 18-hole Lincoln Park routing, not to a single opening day.