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Olympic Club
Established on May 6, 1860, the Olympic Club is America’s oldest athletic club. It has a total of 11,000 members, showcasing 19 different sports with two main clubhouses and a total of 45 holes of golf. It is the home course for the San Francisco women's and men's golf teams.
By 1922, the club replaced the original course with two 18-hole courses to take its place creating Lake and Ocean courses in 1924 designed by Sam Whiting the course superintendent and Willie Watson. In 1927, due to weather conditions the courses were under construction to be redesigned again. The Lake course remains faithful to the original 1927 design. It is also the same course used to put on USF's annual Swanson Memorial Golf Tournament.
The Olympic Club has hosted many big tournaments for golf as well as for their 19 other amateur sports available at the facility. In 1955, they held their first U.S. Open Tournament and continued to host four more times in the years that followed. Most recently the 2012 U.S. Open took place at the Olympic Club where Webb Simpson took the title with a 1-over-par 281.
