Tom,
The only thing taking on water and falling off a cliff faster than Sharp Park is your argument for including courses after 1929!
You asked me,
Was Sharp Park constructed as part of a public works program?
You really need to read more carefully. The ENTIRE construction, start to finish of the Sharp Park Municipal Golf Course was a PUBLIC WORKS PROJECT funded to combat the effects of the Great Depression
.
October 29th, 1929 - The Stock Market Crashes
November 29th, 1929 - Perhaps in denial, or perhaps not yet feeling the effects of the oncoming economic storm, after discussions for the past year the good folks in the San Francisco govt. proposes to spend
$100,000 to build the "Best Course in the World" at Sharp Park.
March 9th, 1930, - H. Chandler Egan, perhaps sensing this thing slipping away, boasts in a story covered nationally that the course will be a "Second St. Andrews".
May 17th, 1930, - The city of San Francisco proposes a budget with a tax increase to cover, among other things, proposed spending of now
$125,000 to build the golf course at Sharp Park.
July 1931 - To combat the effects of the Great Depression, and to employ people the San Francisco government announces an aggressive list of PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMS that now includes
$200,000 to build the golf course at Sharp Park.
April 16th, 1932 - After being in construction for the past year, the new golf course at Sharp Park opens at a cost now
over $300,000.
March, 1935 - An
additional $250,000 will be expended in a PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAM at Sharp Park to "reconstruct.. it into a model golfing layout".
For comparison purposes, Cobb's Creek was built for $30,000, which included construction of the two large, two-story clubhouse locker facilities for men and women.
Now, about what happened to Sharp Park, and when.
Tom Doak's excellent and seminal book, "The Life and Work of Dr. Alister Mackenzie", reports;
"Sharp Park was a municipal project located just south of San Francisco in Pacifica at the edge of the ocean. Jack Fleming was assigned the construction of this course, which involved a considerable amount of earthmoving in order to create artificial dune features, similar to what C.B. Macdonald did at the Lido.
Sharp Park opened in 1931 to substantial acclaim. A few months later, unfortunately, ocean storms (perhaps an early El Nino) swept over part of the course and wiped out several of the holes. Today, only the inland greens remain true to Mackenzie's design, and the seaside ambiance was sacrificed when a large dyke was erected to keep the ocean back."
What does Daniel Wexler's book say happened?