Club History
Once upon a time, long, long ago, there was a band of rebel golfers that were pioneers for their time even if these rebels didnt realize it. They had a passion for the game of golf and wanted more than just one organized tournament and the fellowship that went along with it a month.
At that time there was only one golf club in San Francisco called the San Francisco Mainliner Golf Club (The Big Club) with 150 to 200 members. They scheduled one golf tournament each month on the 3rd or 4th Saturday.
This merry band of rebel golfers were members of the San Francisco Mainliner Golf Club (The Big Club), they would each put an extra dollar into a side pot bet among themselves and after the round would pay the side pot to whoever won that days tournament.
From time to time this same merry band of rebel golfers would schedule an additional golf tournament just for themselves. After one such event in November of 1966 at a golf course in Newark called Silver Pines, in addition to their regular post tournament festivities, this band of golfers conducted a meeting at which they decided to start another club and play a tournament on the 1st or 2nd Saturday of each month.
The clubs first president John Rider was the gentleman that usually collected the dollar and organized these extra golf tournaments. In 1967 John would establish the clubs first schedule of organized tournaments. The club also needed a name for this gang of rebels in order to set themselves apart and get funding from the United Air Lines Employee Mainliner Club, realizing they had 32 members, which by the way was one hour of start times, they took the name United Air Lines Mainliner 32 Golf Club.
That would also be the first year United Air Lines employees had the Good Friday holiday off and the club added to the schedule the first Good Friday tournament at San Geronimo, then the next year they moved the tournament to Rancho Canada Golf Course. The club would go on to host that as a open tournament for 25 years.
To this day the club still has the side pot bet and tournaments on the 1st or 2nd Saturday of each month. With the passing of time each of the club presidents would change and add new innovations to the club to become the club that we know and enjoy today and as they say the rest is history...
