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Metropolitan Golf Links: Course Intelligence
Johnny Miller designed Metropolitan Golf Links in 2003 on a piece of Oakland, California San Francisco Bay shoreline land — the property occupies former salt-pond and bayshore terrain that was redeveloped through the late 1990s and early 2000s. Miller — the major championship winner of the 1973 U.S. Open and 1976 British Open — had developed course design as a second career through the 1990s, and Metropolitan represents one of his more architecturally-distinctive public-access routings. The course plays as a true links-style facility with fescue rough, firm fairways, and the prevailing west wind off San Francisco Bay as the architectural constant.
The course plays around 6,720 yards par 71 from the back markers, with fescue rough and a slope in the upper 130s. The fairways play firm given the bayshore subsoil; the wind off the bay moves the playing length significantly day to day. The seventh hole is a 200-yard par-3 with the San Francisco skyline visible behind the green; the seventeenth, a 432-yard par-4 along the bayshore, is the routing's most-photographed mid-round hole. The treeless links-style routing produces unique California Bay Area visual signature that the broader Northern California country-club landscape does not offer.
Metropolitan Golf Links is open to public daily-fee play at moderate rates by Bay Area standards — the pricing has stayed accessible despite the routing's architectural quality. The hospitality model is built around the daily-fee experience, with the Oakland International Airport adjacent to the property giving visitors easy access. Caddies are available; walking is encouraged.
San Francisco Bay Area climate keeps Metropolitan Golf Links playable year-round, with the firmest conditions in September and October. Morning marine layer rolls in off the Pacific most days and lifts by mid-morning. The afternoon onshore breeze is the daily constant. The bayshore setting gives the property a distinct visual identity different from the broader Bay Area country-club landscape.
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