Olympic Club, Cliffs Course

Detailed description of Olympic Club, Cliffs Course

Olympic Club, The -Cliffs, is a Private, 9 hole golf course located in San Francisco, California.

The Olympic Club is a San Francisco, California-based athletic club with three golf courses located at San Francisco's border with Daly City, California. The club's main "City Clubhouse" is located in downtown San Francisco. The club's "Lakeside Clubhouse" is located just north of the city's border with Daly City. The two clubhouses are separated by about 10 miles.

The three courses at the Olympic Club are The Cliffs, The Lake and The Ocean courses. The Lake and Ocean are eighteen hole par 71 courses, and the Cliffs is a nine-hole par-3 course that is on the bluffs of the Pacific Ocean. All three courses are lined with many trees (almost 40,000 on the Lake course) and offer views of the Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate Park. The United States Golf Association recognizes the Olympic Club as one of the first 100 golf clubs established in the United States.

The Cliffs course first opened for play in 1994. The Cliffs course was designed by Jay Morrish and Tom Weiskopf.

The 9-hole, par-3 Cliffs Course is the is set on the bluffs above the Pacific Ocean. Though it is short, it is very challenging. It is the most scenic of the three Olympic Club courses. The Cliffs Course measures 1,800 yards.