Meandering along the Buri Buri Ridge of the old San
Mateo Rancho, Crystal Springs Golf Club offers
breathtaking vistas of the 20-mile-long Crystal
Springs Reservoir, the Coastal Range, and abundant
wildlife. In fact, the championship 18-hole course is
part of a 32,000-acre wildlife refuge owned by the
San Francisco Water Department.
The
course was built in 1924, the design of William
Herbert Fowler, a noted British golf architect who
was a pioneer in designing courses that naturally
followed the lay of the land as does Crystal Springs.
Besides working on many famous courses in the
British Isles, Fowler did golf designs on the East and
West coasts of the United States. Most of his basic
design remains, although some holes have been
rerouted in the 80 years since the course was built.