{"id":490935,"date":"2026-10-10T00:16:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490935\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T00:16:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:16:15","slug":"the-city-returns-entries-open-for-the-111th-san-francisco-city-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/490935\/","title":{"rendered":"The City Returns: Entries Open for the 111th San Francisco City Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ar-image-caption\">The fog rolls in over the Golden Gate above Lincoln Park, where the City was first played in 1917.<\/p>\n<p>On the first tee at Harding Park in March of 1956, with ten thousand people pressed against the ropes, Ken Venturi turned to Harvie Ward, the reigning U.S. Amateur champion and the best amateur in the country, and said: \u201cHarvie, I\u2019ve come to take my City back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He took it, 5 and 4. The match made the front page of every daily in San Francisco. Within eight years Venturi would win the U.S. Open. The City had simply seen him first.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ar-paywall-eyebrow\">Member-only \u2014 17 more paragraphs<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading The City Returns<\/p>\n<p class=\"ar-paywall-sub\">Full access to every member article, plus tournament insights, rankings depth, schedule builder, and member-only analysis. Cancel anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amateurgolf.com\/upgrade?next=%2Fgolf-tournament-news%2Fthe-city-returns-entries-open-for-the-111th-san-francisco-city-championship-dd23de\" class=\"ag-btn ag-btn--primary ag-btn--lg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Join AmateurGolf<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:var(--font-meta);color:var(--color-stone-400);margin-top:var(--space-3)\">Already a member? <a style=\"color:var(--color-crimson)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amateurgolf.com\/sign-in?next=%2Fgolf-tournament-news%2Fthe-city-returns-entries-open-for-the-111th-san-francisco-city-championship-dd23de\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amateurgolf.com\/r?to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cobragolf.com%2Fpages%2F3dp-irons%3Futm_source%3Damateurgolf%26utm_medium%3Dbanner%26utm_campaign%3Dgear_launch%26utm_content%3Dhomepage&amp;p=news_article_body&amp;c=crv_5e3g1z490fesow&amp;a=adv_cobra&amp;t=free\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer sponsored nofollow\" aria-label=\"Cobra 3DP 300 x 250\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/5z3d61494r0i.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display:block;width:100%;height:auto\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/i.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px;opacity:0;pointer-events:none\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fog rolls in over the Golden Gate above Lincoln Park, where the City was first played in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":490936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-490935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}