Played here yesterday after flying up and secured a tee time for about 2:30 and group ahead of us was a no show so got off a little early. Played here about 4 years ago and there have been some chang... Continue »

Played here yesterday after flying up and secured a tee time for about 2:30 and group ahead of us was a no show so got off a little early. Played here about 4 years ago and there have been some changes in the course. For example hole 1 is now a par 5 and was a 4 last time I played. The driving range has been moved since they added tee boxes on hole one for this. The range is huge and there is a putting green and 2 separate chipping/pitching greens. You could probably hit 40-80 yd shots into these 2 greens so you can get a variety of shots in there. One interesting thing I didn't remember was that there is no clearly defining green. Basically the fairway runs up into the green. This is the first time I have ever played a course like this. There were times when I didn't know whether I could mark my ball or not, that's how unsure I was. These greens are the firmest greens I have ever played on, hands down. How firm were they, I didn't have to repair one divot. Also the grass on the greens is pretty unusual. They don't look like they roll but man they have this hidden speed to them. I can't remember the last time I had so many long 2nd and 3rd putts. I thought for certain I would 4 putt but I exceeded my expectation and didn't but there were some close calls.

The fairways were great to hit out of but spend some time on the range to get used to this surface because they were pretty firm too. A couple of time I tried to hit a normal wedge and quickly learned that is not the right play. I learned to hit these low running shots which I think is a much better play.

This used to be an old quarry (not sure what kind) but the sand in here is different. I'm not sure if this is the natual sand from the area but it's not white is almost gray and it's pretty firm. There were several people in our group who left the ball in there a few times.

The rough isn't that tough but most of the rough is the traps. There is some tall grass I found and the one time I didn't have an impossible lie and had to just wedge it out.

Everyone here is pretty friendly and really helpful. I purchased a yardage book and I'd say there were some things on the course which was not in the book so that should be updated in my opinion. For example on hole 18 there is a big pot bunker about 100 yds from the green but it's not in the yardage book. The fews here are simply stunning. There is a few of the Puget Sound from every hole. No matter how bad you have been playing it was always relaxing to look out to the water.

The one bad was the round took 6 hours and 5 minutes. Since I would have otherwise been in my hotel room I didn't mind but it did wear me down towards the end of the round. Did get to see the sunset as I played the last hole.