Enthusiasm of the fans in the bay area and the diversity of the fans the intelligence of the fans and our players noticed that as well that you had thousands of people who it out 80 taught to handinging park and know its a wonderful thing to bay play that level of competition at harding park since tln then chamz in partnership with chuck to get the clubhouse built so here we are today, were excited about this for a number of reasons one to have a major champingship played are here this past weekend i heard cbs say over and over again in washington, d. C. The congressional is major champing venue and with teds announcement today from today on harding park will be referred to as a major champingship venue thats a terrific thing for any golf course and the first t to help it get moving is positive as well. Id like to spend a second before i bring ed up to talk about for a second the match play champing. We think that having played the president cup at harding and 9 and being existed about
In spots. 63 degrees in concord. 59 degrees in San Francisco, and 63 degrees in santa rosa says the great elizabeth. Yes, i know. The great winger. Have the same ring to it. Yeah. All right. Lets go out live towards the golden gate bridge. Got some flashing lights going on right now, and doing those lane changes. Those are the crews out there right now. Theyre opening four in the southbound commute direction, two in the northbound. Anyway, theres no delay in either direction right now. Everything is free and clear from novato all the way down towards San Francisco. And if your commute is in the south bay toward san jose, 64, 65, 63 miles per hour. 101 parkway and 280 all cleeshgs and your most popular drive time around this morning, westbound 580 not backed up yet through tracy. 880 looks good in oakland, and theres a live look east shore freeway. Westbound 80. A nice and light 19 minutes so that is looking good all the way down through berkeley. Now, transit bart so far system wide on
Well, you know today is certainly a very monumental day in the history of pga in america and certainly in the Golf Community in San Francisco im here to announce it the pga champing will come through harding park in 2020 and will mark the first time in the one hundred and 2 year history of the pga championing that will be played in the great city of San Francisco this would not be possible thank you clapping this certainly would not be possible without the great collaboration with the city and county of San Francisco the pga tour and the pga of america and mayor ed lee and thanks to you and phil givens berg and tim this seems like another step in a lot of the things weve been able to accomplish working together in the past 20 months and look forward to a great future for the pga of america and iceland be remissed if i didnt say thank you to our chief officers clapping at the pga of america quite honestly we got this deal done fast and it was certainly not without theyre great efforts b
Played are here this past weekend i heard cbs say over and over again in washington, d. C. The congressional is major champing venue and with teds announcement today from today on harding park will be referred to as a major champingship venue thats a terrific thing for any golf course and the first t to help it get moving is positive as well. Id like to spend a second before i bring ed up to talk about for a second the match play champing. We think that having played the president cup at harding and 9 and being existed about it cob in 2025 it sets up for a match play that was a factor in deciding to bring it. But also you may not be aware were bringing it forward with a new format historically we have the top 64 players 2 against 63 they play on wednesday and were down to 32 players and on thursday were going to do it differently t next year its going to be a worldclass play cup everyone in the United States being riverside to that formulate in brazil where well be playing golf in the
Running around and experiencing and playing i want to thank them and welcoming a good friend and someone i like to see in this city the pga tour president ted bishop thank you, very much for being here clapping im just excited, in fact, ill as excited when former willie brown asked me to build that clubhouse at harding park in the earlier 2000s said you have to build it on time o pga officials are coming in and cant be detailed i was happy to put our skill sets together a revitalize our park into a golf facility and thats what weve done and pga park today, im here to celebrate the announcement lange along what the folks that pga park will be hosting the 2020 knapp and the 2045 president cup at harding park arent those wonderful worldclass events before those arrive in 2015 we will be hosting the match champing to the park those 3 events is the sunlight of a Historic Collaboration between the pga tour and pga of america in concert with San Francisco. We can optional have done that with