Barny,
You actually raise an interesting point regarding the participation of homosexuals in the golfing community of S.F.
Oddly enough, I have seen many many instances of obvious lesbians playing our municipal courses both in organized groups and informal foursomes.
That said, I have yet to see what looked to be a homosexual male doing the same. And please, don't give me the old line about not being able to judge a book by its cover.
Gay men in this part of the world are terribly proud of their sexuality and dress in uniform. Tight, straight leg jeans, earring in the right ear, pencil mustache and closely cropped haircut.
How they manage to adopt affectations like that ass-wiggling prance is beyond me, but I have never seen it carrying a golf bag down the fairway.
But if gay men took up the game en masse, I guarantee that the condition of Harding would stay as pristine as their neighborhoods. These people are remarkably fastidious and the only group in San Francisco who can make that crooked sycophant mayor Willie Brown jump through hoops.
But they won't because the sodomites are too busy lobbying lawmakers to become a victimized minority group or reopen the bathhouses.
Write this down: Harding is doomed in the long term unless the PGA Tour comes in and cleans up the mess every few years prior to the tournament. The laziness and stupidity of the union and their gardeners is institutionalized.
Sharp Park is a sewer. Lincoln is worse. Golden Gate - a wonderful Jack Fleming par-3 course in the heart of the park - is absolutely threadbare and has exactly one gardener on staff to maintain it.
If there was ever a place for kids to be introduced to the game, that is it. I was, playing every year in the old Examiner Junior Match Play Tournament.
All these pollyannas like Sandy Tatum and Brian Murphy are inevitably going to have egg dripping off the end of their noses because they are negotiating with idealogue terrorists.
Oh, and the same group of filthy criminals on the S.F. Public Utilities Commission - who have reneged on their agreements with our county for a golf course since 1966 - are going to make sure that residents of Nutville pay $38 to play Harding while charging everyone else one hundred dollars more.
Just like they do with our water, just like they do with everything.
