TPC Harding Park - San Francisco

Anyone got some experiences at Harding Park? Heading up tomorrow to my friend's who lives in the city and we are playing Harding on Monday and Presidio on Tuesday. Harding looked awesome during the President's Cup two years ago but I've also heard it has had its lesser moments.

Course doesn't look to play overly long but just hoping the wind is not too crazy. Weather has been beautiful the past couple days.

i played those exact two courses during a trip several years ago.  Harding was very nice, alhtough not spectacular (not in a Monterey peninsula sort of way) though.  Presidio's conditioning was a little worse, but i remember liking the routing and some of the views.

The biggest pain was that the rounds were PAINFULLY slow, i.e. Presidio took 5-1/2 hours, and I couldn't even finish my Harding round due to darkness (got through 15 holes in 4-1/2 hours).  When finishing many holes, you had to sit down and watch up to two groups ahead of you tee off.  Unless things have radically changed, bring a book or something to entertain yourself!

Thanks for the replies.

mvmac - Appreciate the suggestion for adding some club. Will definitely keep that in mind. I'm coming in from Fresno where we have dry weather. Heading out today @ 1130 for Harding so will post back tonight.

drglew - Sounds ominous! I'm not down with rounds 5.5+ hours. Yikes. Hopefully we won't run into too much of that on a Monday morning but who knows. My buddy played Presidio a couple months back and said the pacing was pretty good so we shall see. Tomorrow is Presidio so I'll let you know.

Fresno is less than 300 feet above sea level. Harding Park is on the coast. The difference in elevation is going to be negligible in club distances. If anything, you'll need *less* club going from dry weather to humid. Overall, wind will probably play more of a factor than either elevation or humidity.

This is an awesome course.  If you have time to play it, its a definite must.

Harding is my home course. To address your concerns, a typical round is about 4-1/2 to 5 hours and wind is not usually an issue.

It's a great course... Good luck on 4 and 16!