About Marin Golf
One permanent home for the history of every golf course in Marin County, open and lost.
The project
Each researched club has its own full history, with chapters, a short version, a timeline, profiles of its people and, where they survive, photographs. Those histories live under Clubs. The pages here tie them together: the map and directory, the people who crossed between clubs, a master timeline and the combined hole-in-one roll. Courses not yet researched have a short, sourced entry marked “Full history coming.”
The Meadow Club history is for members only for now and sits behind a password.
Sources
The histories are built from the newspapers of their day and from public records: the California Digital Newspaper Collection (CDNC: the Mill Valley Record, Sausalito News, Marin Journal, San Anselmo Herald, San Francisco Call and many more), the San Rafael Independent-Journal on the Internet Archive, the San Francisco Chronicle and Examiner through the San Francisco Public Library’s databases, golf annuals and magazines (HathiTrust, LA84, archive.org), USGS topographic maps, and local historical societies and museums. Every fact on these pages has a source beside it or in a numbered list; CDNC IDs such as MVR19191101.2.3 open the original article.
Facts are summarized in our own words. Later articles are quoted only briefly. Anything we infer is marked “probably.” For living people we give only public, professional facts.
Corrections and contributions
If you know something we have wrong, or have scorecards, photographs, letters or memories of any Marin course, we would like to hear from you. A contact address will be posted here at launch. Please include where your information comes from, so it can be cited.
Photographs and permissions
Each club history credits every photograph with its source and holder. We use newspaper and public-domain images, photographs from collections that have given permission, and club material only with the club’s consent. If you hold the rights to an image here and want it credited differently or removed, tell us and we will act promptly.
The photograph on the home page is “Beautiful Fairway,” from A. D. Mills’s 1924–25 album of the Mill Valley course, colorized; see the Mill Valley album.
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Map pins are approximate.
The flag mark is drawn for this site. Club names and marks belong to their clubs and are used here only as history.