High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lake Merced is a freshwater lake in the southwest corner of San Francisco. It is surrounded by three golf courses (the private Olympic Club and San Francisco Golf Club, and the public TPC Harding Park), as well as residential areas, Lowell High School, San Francisco State University, Fort Funston and the Pacific Ocean. The San Francisco Police Department shooting range, as well as a skeet shooting club and the city`s National Guard armory are also in the area. It is the home lake of Pacific Rowing Club, a competitive rowing program for San Francisco high school students.