533 Premium: An Alister MacKenzie Classic Course is Threatened and the Fight to Keep it Open with Bo

golf SMARTER

Josh Karp

Sports, Golf, Society & Culture

4.3 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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533 Premium: Alister MacKenzie, one of the greatest golf course architects in history designed only one seaside public course, Sharp Park in San Francisco. Opened in 1932, the course’s closure is being threatened by the City of San Francisco. Attorney, author, photographer, and painter Bo Links joins us to discuss the legend of Sharp Park, Alister MacKenzie, and a group’s effort to save Sharp Park. Along with his final design, Augusta National Golf Club, other famous courses designed by MacKenzie include Royal Melbourne Golf Club (Melbourne, Australia), Pasatiempo Golf Club (Santa Cruz, California), Crystal Downs Country Club (Frankfort, Michigan), and Lahinch Golf Course (Lahinch, Ireland). Watch the full interview and excerpt on GolfSmarter.comPlease visit the all new GolfSmarter.com and click on the Survey icon next to the Hey Fred button, to take our brief multiple choice survey so that we can learn more about you, what you like, and what you don't like about the Golf Smarter Podcast.For exclusive content and first access check out Corrected Mistakes on Substack: https://substack.com/@correctedmistake Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Golf Smarter Premium, number 533, published on March 29, 2016.
0:07.1	An Alistair McKenzie classic golf course is threatened and the fight to save it with Bo links.
0:14.0	Yeah, that's really his name.
0:15.0	This is Golf Smarter Premium.
0:18.1	Here's your host, Fred Green.
0:21.3	Welcome to the Golf Smarter Podcast, Bo.
0:24.0	Good to be here, Fred.
0:25.1	Thanks for having me on.
0:26.3	Well, thanks for turning me on to this topic.
0:29.4	I'm really excited about having a full conversation finally with you to talk about
0:34.1	Alistair McKenzie's Sharp Park in San Francisco and how there's a fight going on,
0:41.2	trying to keep it open, right?
0:44.3	Well, the thing that is amazing about Sharp Park is the fact that it's still there,
0:50.7	86 years or so after McKenzie conceived it, it's been open for 84 years now.
0:56.8	And what a lot of people may not fully appreciate is when you go back and look at the
1:01.2	historical documents, this is one of the greatest courses McKenzie ever dreamt up.
1:06.1	And the fact that it's been open to the public, accessible, affordable, enjoyed for generations is a true
1:14.6	miracle. And it's fallen into disrepair. There's no question about that. But now we see on the
1:21.7	horizon the prospect of bringing it back to life with public philanthropy, with responsible stewardship. And, you know, Sharp Park is really
1:30.6	part of a larger project to restore habitat for the endangered species that live there and to
1:38.0	keep alive this true community center. This has been such a focal point of life in Pacifica for almost a century now
1:47.0	since 1932 when the course opened. And the communities rallied behind it. Tremendous public support.
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