Griffith Park: Harding G.C.

Griffith Park, Harding G.C.:  Griffith Park is the largest and most popular park in the city of Los Angeles and contains three municipal golf courses.  One of them is a separate nine-hole executive course located in another area.  The other two are championship courses that lie side by side and both were designed by George C. Thomas, Jr., who was responsible for some of the best early courses in California including Los Angeles Country Club and Riviera.  Harding was designed in 1923, the year that Mr. Thomas also redid Wilson.  Neither layout is easy, but the shorter and less difficult is the Harding Course.  The course features several testy short par-4's and back to back par-5's on the front.  There are only three par-3's and the player doesn't get much of a break on those with the 5th the shortest at 178 yards.  The par-5 18th is not long, but it is uphill all the way and usually into the wind.

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