GLENVIEW, ILLINOIS | Global Golf Post, the world’s leading golf news brand, announced March 11 that it would once again donate the funds for the greens fees of all finalists in the 2019 San Francisco City Championship.
“As we have in the previous three years, we want to support this historically significant tournament and the players who compete in it,” said Founder and Publisher Jim Nugent.
In addition, each contestant will receive a sleeve of balls and a Global Golf Post towel.
Under the plan, all 22 of the finalists at Harding Park GC on March 17 will not have to pay any greens fees to compete in their championship matches. In addition, the winners will be featured in a congratulatory ad in the March 18 edition of Global Golf Post.
Finalist flights are:
Men’s Championship
Women’s Championship
Men’s Senior Championship
Men’s Super Senior Championship
Mayor Ed Lee Flight
Ken Venturi Flight
Sandy Tatum Flight
Ray Pellegrini Flight
George Archer Flight
“Amateur golf is a part of the DNA of The Post,” Nugent added. “We take great pride and similar joy in supporting the amateur game, globally.”
About Global Golf Post:
Founded in 2010, Global Golf Post is the leading golf news brand in the world. The Digital Edition is delivered overnight Sunday, 48 weeks per year, to a global audience of nearly 1.2 million avid golfers. Global Golf Post+ is a subscription platform that delivers original, premium-quality golf content that can’t be found anywhere else in an advertising-free environment.
About the San Francisco City Golf Championship
The San Francisco City Golf Championship, known locally as “The City,” is an annual golf tournament hosted by the City of San Francisco. It is a match play event and boasts one of the largest fields of any tournament in the nation, broken down into five separate divisions: Men’s, Men’s Senior, Men’s Super Senior, Women’s, and Open.
The San Francisco City Championship was inaugurated in 1917 and is the country’s oldest municipal golf tournament. Another thing that makes the City Championship a unique event is the inclusion of an “Open”