Cal Club

Cal Club joins the U.S. Top 100

"To bring the front nine up to a similar quality as the back, Kyle Phillips' plan needed to be dramatic and indeed it was. The Club has returned the best Golden Age design features to its course and taken full advantage of the finest aspects of modern golf architecture and agronomy… The result is a startling transformation that makes the California Golf Club of San Francisco arguably one of the golf-rich state's five finest courses for the first time in its history."

- Ran Morrisset, Golf Club Atlas


In September 2011, just three years after a complete remodel by Kyle Phillips Golf Course Design, the California Golf Club of San Francisco, one of the Bay Area's oldest and most respected private clubs, has been added to Golf Magazine's list of Top 100 Courses in the United States. This coming shortly after Golf Week Magazine ranked the remodeled Cal Club #35 on its list of Best Classic Courses in the U.S.

The course was originally designed by A. Vernon Macan in 1925 and in 1927, Dr. Alister MacKenzie rebuilt a few select greens and re-bunkered the entire course. Over the years several changes occurred to the property, compromising the overall quality of the course, particularly the front nine holes where an adjacent road was constructed within the club's original property boundary. In 2007, Phillips and his team rearranged several of the front nine holes, relocating the practice facility and building 6 completely new holes. The remaining 12 holes were meticulously restored using the 1927 "MacKenzie Era" as a benchmark. READ MORE


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