Harding Park One Year Later
Sunday, October 17, 2004 at 10:19 AM Harding One Year Later
October 17, 2004
Brian Murphy looks at the Harding Park renovation one year later, listing the accolades piling up for the project while also noting the already declining course conditions and emerging questions about the price tag.
Murphy writes, “The ‘AmEx,’ the PGA Tour's event for the top 50 players in the world, is coming to Harding Park Oct. 3-9, 2005, bringing international golf fame and glory to San Francisco's signature muni, and also stirring up the hackles of longtime city duffers who wonder if it's all worth it: all the change and all the money -- $16 million from a state loan on the golf course alone, with $7 million, much of it privately donated, budgeted for the as-yet unfinished clubhouse.”
Approximately $4 million of the horribly swollen course budget went to covering lost green fees, and if that number wasn’t questionable enough, the $12 million left to redo an existing 18-holes boggles the mind.
Did they use copper irrigation piping?
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