Harland Brewing Takes Over Mission Bay Golf Course Food and Beer Program

Harland Brewing Co. is moving onto the fairway, turning the clubhouse at Mission Bay Golf Course and Practice Center into a new kind of beer destination for San Diego. The project, Harland Clubhouse, would place the brewery’s food, beer and hospitality program at 2702 North Mission Bay Drive, inside a city-owned golf complex that already has one of the city’s most unusual draws: it is San Diego’s only golf course with night lighting.

The San Diego City Council was scheduled to review a proposed ten-year lease for the space, which would make Harland responsible for operating, management, maintenance, repair and occupancy costs. The deal starts with base rent of $8,500 a month, or $102,000 in the first year, with 3.5% annual increases. The city would also collect 7% of gross food-and-beverage revenue above a natural breakpoint, a structure staff projected would bring in about $45,000 in percentage rent in year one and roughly $147,000 in total lease revenue.

That matters because Mission Bay is not just another clubhouse. The 18-hole executive course, designed by Ted Robinson, measures 2,719 yards, sits on 46 acres in the heart of San Diego and is one of three publicly owned and operated golf facilities in the city, alongside Balboa Park and Torrey Pines. City materials also note that Mission Bay is where Tiger Woods won a Junior World title. For the Golf Enterprise Fund, which ended fiscal year 2025 with a balance of more than $53 million, city staff said the lease would create a new revenue stream to help protect the fund’s long-term sustainability.

Harland’s version of a clubhouse looks built for more than 19th-hole pints. The new structure will include a brand-new kitchen, about 2,000 square feet of indoor dining and an outdoor patio aimed at special events, corporate gatherings, golf tournaments, team-building outings and casual drop-ins. The design leans into Harland’s midcentury-modern look, with light wood, rounded furniture edges, accordion doors and a slatted wood bar that opens toward the course.

The food program will run on counter service and keep the menu approachable, with smashburgers, breakfast burritos, tacos, hot dogs, deli sandwiches and morning coffee. On the beverage side, Harland plans to pour its signature Hazy IPA, West Coast IPA, Japanese Lager, special releases and cocktail-inspired seltzers. The operation also is set to extend onto the course itself, with a beverage cart on the driving range and a mobile golf cart that can bring cold drinks to players in motion.

For Harland, founded in San Diego in 2018, Mission Bay is the next step in a fast-moving expansion beyond the taproom model. The brewery opened its first full-service restaurant in 4S Ranch in March 2026, after building out tasting rooms in Scripps Ranch, Bay Park, South Park, One Paseo and 4S Ranch. It had already tested the food side with The Ocotillo at Harland in Scripps Ranch, and the Mission Bay clubhouse pushes the brand further toward a format built around recreation, neighborhood traffic and event business instead of the bar alone.