Piece on keeping Sharp Park and other munis (Austin TX & Oceanside CA) open

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Glad to see passionate advocates dedicate their time to preserving courses for the general public. The California course is unfortunately named Goat Hill Park.

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“We’ve learned that golf, especially municipal golf in larger cities, is not inevitable,” Links says. “If they want to keep it, golfers will have to fight for it.”

On the website of the San Francisco Public Golf Alliance, which, in the event of Sharp’s survival, will be charged with raising the private money to fund the badly needed infrastructure renovation and a Tom Doak-led restoration, Links and Harris have issued a golfing call to arms entitled “Why We Fight.” It concludes:

“If a golf course with Sharp Park’s historic legacy and devoted multicultural clientele can be destroyed by a combination of anti-golf prejudice and over-aggressive use of the Endangered Species Act, no golf course is safe.”

A little overheated? Perhaps. But because golf needs to keep the muny in its soul, all golfers should care about the preservation of Sharp Park.

http://www.golfdigest.com/story/the-fight-over-sharp-park-isnt-just-about-saving-one-golf-course-but-muny-golf-overall