The San Francisco City Championship
The oldest consecutively played golf championship in the world — contested every March on the municipal turf of Harding Park and Lincoln Park, through fog, wind, and a hundred years of history.
Next Championship
March 5–21, 2027
- Venues
- TPC Harding Park · Lincoln Park
- Registration
- November 1, 2026 — February 16, 2027
Live results & pairings
Cypress, fog & the Pacific
A championship that could only be San Francisco.
The fog rolls in off the Pacific most mornings in March, sliding through the Monterey cypress and settling over the fairways before the first group is away. This is municipal golf as San Francisco has always known it — public, walkable, and played in whatever the city sends down off the bridge.
From the bluffs at Lincoln Park, the Golden Gate fills the horizon. At Harding, the cypress lean out over Lake Merced. There is no gate, no invitation — only the draw, the wind, and whoever is willing to walk it.
TPC Harding Park · Lake Merced
Cypress-framed fairways bending in the ocean wind, a century of the City walked upon them.
A century of the City
Every major went dark in wartime. This one never did.
Played every single year since 1917 — through two World Wars, earthquakes and pandemics — the City is the oldest consecutively played championship in golf. The Masters, the U.S. Open, the Open Championship and the PGA all paused. It did not.
In 1956, more than ten thousand spectators ringed Harding Park to watch Ken Venturi and Harvie Ward. “Harvie, I’ve come to take my City back,” Venturi said on the first tee — and won 5 & 4, in the match still called the finest municipal golf has known.
2026 Champions
The reigning field
This year's winners join a roll that runs unbroken back to Fitzgerald Marx in 1917.
Six ways to compete
A championship for every game
From a 168-strong Championship field walking 36 holes of qualifying to handicap-flighted match play named for the City's legends.
Men's Championship
$435A 168-player field, 36 holes of stroke-play qualifying across two historic municipals, then single-elimination match play to a 36-hole final.
Women's Championship
$275An 18-hole qualifier seeds a match-play bracket, with the Championship final played over 36 holes and a second flight in Juli Inkster's name.
Men's Senior Championship
$375For players 55 and over — an 18-hole qualifier into a 32-player match-play bracket.
Men's Super Senior
$335For players 65 and over — a compact qualifier into a 16-player bracket.
Women's Senior
$275For women 50 and over, contested alongside the Women's Championship.
Open Flights
$235Handicap-seeded match play for every level, in flights named for the City's legends — Archer, Rosberg, Susko and Ward.
Your name belongs on the oldest roll in the game.
Registration for the 2027 championship runs November 1, 2026 through February 16, 2027. A current AmateurGolf.com membership is required to enter.
Coverage
How the 2026 City was won
2026 · Championship recap
Champions crowned at Harding Park
Joey Hayden, Gianna Singh, Bob Niger and Jeff Thomas capped championship week with title-winning performances — five brackets, one Sunday, everything decided at The City.
Read on AmateurGolf.com
The official film
The 2026 San Francisco City Championship
Championship week at Harding Park, from qualifying through the closing putts — presented by Fujikura and Cobra Puma Golf.
Championship Sunday
Finals underway at The City
Inside the ropes as the finals got underway at Harding Park.
Friends of the City
A championship this old stays affordable only on purpose.
Gifts from players, families and local businesses keep entry fees within reach and the oldest championship in golf on the tee every March.
Est. 1917
They just call it The City.
One hundred and eleven years on, the tee markers still go down in the fog each March. Come take your place in the oldest tradition in the game.