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San Francisco City Golf Championship
The SF City Championship started in 1917, and holds the title of the United State's oldest golf tournament for municipal golf tournaments. If you have a chance to visit San Francisco and play some golf, be sure to stop by previous tournament locations like Harding Park Golf Course and Lincoln Park Golf Course.
Golf in San Francisco is certainly a pleasurable experience for those visiting our beautiful city. There are some very nice courses in San Francisco and numerous other courses in the Bay Area. Aside from courses in the Bay Area is home of a premier California Golf School. So if you are traveling and would like to play golf, San Francisco is the place to be!
This match play tournament is played on Harding Park Golf Course and Lincoln Park golf course. Whichever course a player opts to play, that course will serve as the only course he or she plays for the duration of the tournament, so it is, in effect, two different tournaments.
2008 Champion
Congratulations to Martin Trainer for his 2008 Championship.
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Ken Venturi
Ken Venturi played his first round of golf at Harding Park at the age of 12. By the time he was eighteen, he had won the San Francisco City Championship. After graduating from Lincoln in 1949, Ken attended San Jose State College. He played on the golf team and twice won the Northern California Intercollegiate Championship (1951 and 1953) and in 1951 and 1956 he won the California State Amateur Championship.
As an amateur in the 1956 Masters he finished second after taking a lead in the first round of play. In 1957, he turned professional, joining the PGA tour. Ken immediately began winning tournaments as he rapidly became one of professional golf's best performers, with 14 tour victories in all.
Mr. Venturi also has his own golf school located in Las Vegas.
George Archer
George won the San Francisco City Championship in 1963. He later won a Masters in 1969. He also had 2 top 5 finished his career but was troubled with various injuries that hampered his quest for additional tour victories.
Mr. Archer was considered one of the best putters in the game and held a PGA tour record at one point for the fewest putts over 4 rounds (95) in 1980.
He also holds the distinction of being the only player in Champions Tour history to win a tournament in all decades of its existence. George was born in San Francisco and passed on September 25, 2005 in Incline Village, Nevada.
Juli Inkster
Juli won the San Francisco City Championship in
1979 and 1981, and has had an impressive Career in the LPGA. Mrs. Inkster has 30 career victories (and counting) and 7 majors. Juli was the first woman to win 3 consectutive amateur titles (1980-82) since 1934.
Juli was born in Santa Cruz, California in 1960 and has received several honors including an ESPY award in in 2000 for Outstanding Women's Golf Performer of the Year. Juli was also recognized during a 50th anniversary (LPGA) in 2000 as one of the LPGA's top-50 players and teachers.
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