Griffith Park Golf Club

Griffith Park's two eighteen-hole municipal courses, Harding and Wilson, anchor one of the oldest public golf complexes in Los Angeles. The Harding course opened in 1923 as the park's first all-grass layout, followed by Wilson in 1927, with design lineage credited to celebrated architect George C. Thomas Jr., whose private masterpieces include Riviera and Bel-Air. In the 1930s, architect William P. Bell modernized both courses using federal works funding, adding irrigation and the clubhouse that still stands. Set in a wooded canyon beneath the Hollywood Hills, the courses hosted the Los Angeles Open in 1936, 1937 and 1938 along with numerous city championships. For a century they have offered affordable, heavily played rounds to generations of Angelenos, a rare stretch of green municipal golf in the heart of the city.