It is, of course, impossible to "restore" Sharp Park, however, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to pay homage to Mackenzie on fabulous land. I pray the City will let Jay Blasi just have at it, with no interference. Everyone owes an incredible debt of gratitude to Richard Harris and Bo Links for YEARS of legal pro bono devotion to saving this landmark.
The bones are there for a public masterpiece on the large parcel - and if that four hole mess on the other side of Bradford Way can have some quality (and 1,000 trucks of sand) beat into it, the golf world will beat a path to Pacifica. I'm still terribly disappointed at the watered down mediocrity of Harding Park - and hope the sodomites and lunatics who run San Francisco will have enough brains to let Tom Isaak run it with enough black ink room in the lease to maintain it.
Before everybody whines at me about Harding, I was quite impressed at the back nine renovation, but the front side is a terrible lost opportunity. Nobody bothered to research a thing about the history of the changes - and to call it a restoration is a basket of deep fried bullshit.
Thankfully, nobody would ever bring a PGA event to Sharp Park, so there is hope the golf course will have the same sort of artistic sex appeal found at Rustic Canyon.