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.