"Balls were plugging, it was hard to see the ball on the first few holes, and in the end we spent about six hours out there, but it was all worth it," said Greg Wardle, a North Beach resident who easily made the field at 74.
Lincoln Park is a par-68 that defends that number by balancing seemingly easy par 4's with one of the toughest set of par 3's in the Bay Area, including the famous 17th, which overlooks the Golden Gate Bridge. Add in the "playing the ball down in a wet San Francisco weather" effect and you wind up with a score of 1-over-par 69, posted by Christopher Wilderotter of Oakland, pacing the field. Nate Weidner and Eoghan Canniffe were right behind him at 70, and the final spot was won by Taylor Hoover, who emerged from a group of 8 players who were deadlocked at 77 via a sudden-death playoff.
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Final results from the San Francisco City Championship pre-qualifier, played at the 5146 yard, par 68 Lincoln Park Golf Course:
| 69 | 75 | |
| Christopher Wilderotter | Dwight Eschliman | |
| Dan Koehn | ||
| 70 | Ian Albrecht | |
| Nate Weidner | Andrew De Guzman | |
| Eoghan Canniffe | John Crowe | |
| Jack Bieber | ||
| 71 | Mark Pacheco | |
| Robson Turner | Kevin Alexander | |
| Dave Ware | Tommy Bergeron | |
| Jay Scheller | ||
| Mike Wiechers | 76 | |
| Mark Freeland | Mark Scofield | |
| Robert Jacobs | ||
| 72 | Andrew Wood | |
| Aris Pope | Tyler Eliopoulos | |
| Dave Stone | Gary Leonard | |
| Justin Madison | Matt Arney | |
| Bryant Williams | Enada Jang | |
| John Hasse | Alfred Oppenheim | |
| Tak Taoyama | ||
| 73 | Keven Rutherford | |
| Patrick Walter | ||
| Gregg Hileman | 77 | |
| Chris Manfrin | Taylor Hoover (playoff Winner) | |
| Ryan Wilson | failed to qualify | |
| Jim Williams | David Fein | |
| Adam Cioth | ||
| 74 | Rick Shumate | |
| Mike Granelli | Devin Hexner | |
| Ernesto Moreno | Stephen Kilman | |
| Jim Simpson | Steven Lico | |
| David Rathjen | Peter Moren | |
| Jeff Coffey | ||
| Bobby Pereira | 78 | |
| James Morphy | James Frisbie | |
| Greg Wardle | Christopher Flood | |
| Darren Shaw | Jon Norris | |
| Clark Guittard | Richard Saavedra | |
| Yosuke Ariga | ||
| Steven Batte | ||
| 79 | ||
| Roland Maples Jr | ||
| Mark Hemenez | ||
| Jeffrey Ponce | ||
| Steven Landi | ||
| Dave Swanson |
