High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lake Merced is a freshwater lake in the southwest corner of San Francisco, California. It is surrounded by three golf courses (the private Olympic Club and San Francisco Golf Club, and the public Harding Park Golf Club), as well as residential areas, Lowell High School, San Francisco State University, Fort Funston and the Pacific Ocean. The SFPD shooting range, as well as a skeet shooting club and the city's National Guard armory are also in the area.