SAN FRANCISCO – Harding Park is a public golf course with a history of elite champions.Tiger Woods was No. 1 in the world when he won a World Golf Championship here in 2005, and when he went 5-0 in his matches at the Presidents Cup in 2009.
Rory McIlroy was No. 1 when he became the first player who had to win seven matches to capture the Match Play in 2015.The San Francisco Open finally came to Harding Park in 1944.
The winner was Byron Nelson.It hosted a PGA Tour event in the 1960s called the Lucky International. Six of the seven champions are now in the World Golf Hall of Fame.