Save Sharp Park!!

UPDATE: 12/19/11 – Mayor Ed Lee vetoes Sharp Park legislation (sfgate.com)


In case you missed the email from the NCGA regarding saving Sharp Park golf course, here's the text of their email:

Dear NCGA Member,

The purpose of this e-mail is to ask for your participation as a voice for golf in Northern California on an action that has the potential of being detrimental to all golf courses.

As you may be aware, Sharp Park Golf Course, located in Pacifica just outside of San Francisco, has had a lawsuit filed against the course to close it based on the Endangered Species Act. This lawsuit, which is unique in that it is against an existing course rather than one that is seeking a permit to build, will commence in July 2012. In the interim, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted last Tuesday (6-5) in favor of closing the golf course and turning it over to the National Park Service.

Mayor Lee of San Francisco is expected to exercise his powers to veto the decision to close the golf course. The actions taken against Sharp Park are not limited to this unique seaside golf course. Any golf course that contains a habitat of an endangered species is also at risk depending on the results of the lawsuit. We are therefore asking you to please click on the link below to notify Mayor Lee that you do not want to see Sharp Park Golf Course closed. Your voice, on behalf of golf is extremely important.

These actions toward Sharp Park have nothing to do with the financial viability of the operation; it is about an environmentalist attack against the properties that golf courses occupy. It is a very well calculated, and well funded strategy to close and or significantly impact golf courses by protecting the habitats of protected species. The injunction hearing held on November 18 was a request to stop Sharp Park from mowing and maintaining 10 holes in effort to protect the Red-legged Frog and San Francisco Garter Snake. Fortunately the injunction was denied by Federal Court Judge Illston.

You can learn more about this via the website www.Sfpublicgolf.com, but please, make your voice heard by accessing the links below. Contact Mayor Lee to urge his veto of the supervisors actions and make your opinions known to the SF board of supervisors as well to save Sharp Park. Letters, e-mails and opinions must be received by Tuesday, December 20.


What can we do as Poplar Creek members?  Say what you will about Sharp Park, good or bad, but we as participants in the game need to step up and throw in our support to save the long-traditioned course that has been part of our local history for 80 plus years! 


Email the San Francisco Mayor and the San Francisco Board of Supervisors by using the email links below depending on your email program.

mayoredwinlee@sfgov.org; John.Avalos@sfgov.org; David.Campos@sfgov.org; David.Chiu@sfgov.org; Carmen.Chu@sfgov.org; Malia.Cohen@sfgov.org; Sean.Elsbernd@sfgov.org; Mark.Farrell@sfgov.org; Jane.Kim@sfgov.org; Eric.L.Mar@sfgov.org; Ross.Mirkarimi@sfgov.org; Scott.Wiener@sfgov.org?subject=Sharp Park

If for some reason the link above does does not work on your computer, copy the email addresses below into the TO field of your email program.


Sample text you can use in your email.  Be sure to include your name and city at the end for your voice to be counted.

What is happening at the Sharp Park Golf Course is a travesty and the environmentalists are running unchecked, in a very grey area, attacking an existing golf course which has been in place for 80 years!

It is a vital recreation area for 100,000 recreational golfers annually from all over the Bay Area and also a lasting reminder to historic design efforts of one of golf’s greatest course designers, Alister Mackenzie.

Mayor – the Supervisors have opened the door to the environmentalists with their CLOSE vote.  The environmentalists only need one win like this to start working on closing Lincoln Park, the Olympic Club, Lake Merced or any other golf course which may fall in their sights, including other SF golf courses and on the Peninsula and many other areas.  The SF Supervisors have mistakenly created a devastating precedence.  You must VETO this vote!

ADD YOUR NAME
ADD YOUR CITY


Thank you members for throwing in your support. 

We need Sharp Park!!

 

Remembering Cosmic Singh

Cosmic "Cos" Singh passed away Sunday, October 2, 2011.  He was a young 53 years old.

Cos touched many of our club members with his seemingly endless cheerful and upbeat attitude.  He was always good to hang around with whether it was getting together for a few laughs, playing golf or having a few at Poplar's bar.

He will be missed.

We will be toasting Cos with a beer (his favorite) around 1:00 pm this Saturday, October 8 at Poplar Creek.

This post will be updated as details come in.

 

Help Wanted: Tournament Director

VP, Tournament Director wanted

PCGC is looking for a current club member who is interested in taking a position on the Board of Directors and managing our tournament program.  It is a multi-faceted job with lots of reward and also free golf!  Good candidates likely have the following traits/skills:

  • Good natured, gets along with people
  • Good overall communication skills
  • Has a business-oriented background handling details, money, people
  • Enjoys administrative duties and has an eye for details
  • Has decent-to-good computer skills
  • Has used typical office PC software such as Word, Excel, others
  • Enjoys scheduling and working within exacting deadlines
  • Has time to devote; attends/manages up to 20+ home and away tournaments annually, retired individuals encouraged
  • This position has tournament assistants who take some of the work load
  • The Tournament Director receives approximately $2000 in free golf/sweep fees annually and the best tee times during tournaments

We are hoping to find a candidate immediately who will serve a few months apprenticeship under our outgoing Tournament Director Bill Stevens. 

The position is for 1-year minimum with extensions likely.

If you are interested in exploring this opportunity, please contact:

Mike Love
Club President
mlove@thegsc.com
510-429-8200 x222

Dave D’Arche
Handicap Director
handicap@pcgc.net
650-591-2110

 

Facebook is Coming to PCGC!!

At its January 2011 meeting, the board elected to have a test presence on Facebook.  We are not sure where it will go in terms of content but we hope that it will help:

  • attract new members
  • connect to our existing members who are on Facebook
  • encourage existing members to signup for a Facebook account

The content on our Facebook page will not be the primary repository of club info such as tee times, etc.  The PCGC website will continue to be the main place to receive all club information. 

However, Facebook can be used by club members to contact each other as well as a place for the club to post fun info such as photos and other tid bits.

We may also implement the Facebook "Like" buttons throughout the site.  The "Like" button is commonly found on websites as a method for viewers to send a "I like this article I found" link on their Facebook page.  Some testing will be involved over the next month or so before this feature goes live.