Walked the blues (5872/68.2/116) in slightly less than 4H with Longtee400 on their standard $16 twilight rate with a 4:52 pm tee time. The course is a no frills, fun little layout kinda out in the c... Continue »

Walked the blues (5872/68.2/116) in slightly less than 4H with Longtee400 on their standard $16 twilight rate with a 4:52 pm tee time. The course is a no frills, fun little layout kinda out in the country, even though it's maybe 16-18 miles from downtown Portland. While the condition is far from lush, the condition is what I would call good for THIS course. The greens are bumpy and medium slow to slow. However, I actually putt decently here, I just aim 3' beyond the hole on every 20' putt. I know that sounds bizarre, but that strategy works well for me on these slow greens. Both the rough and fairways were decent, you usually had good lies. Several tees are unlevel and could use some work, but they had a decent amount of grass and were well maintained. There are not alot of traps here, but the ones they have are very well maintained with nice, fluffy sand. Normally, I don't comment in my reviews about arbitrary course management decisions and tend to focus on actual course conditions. However, today they let a 5some tee off as one of the first twilight groups, followed by three straight 2somes? We finally played through the 5some on the 12th hole, they let the 2some in front of us through on #10. The starters comment when we made the turn was that the 5some had played a decent pace on the front, barely over 2 hours. While that may be a decent pace on longer, tougher, courses, we waited on almost every single shot, it easily added 20 minutes to our front nine. Then to add insult to injury, the starter came by when we were teeing off on #17 and told us this needed to be our last hole, that they were closing the course @ 8:45... It made no sense to walk from #17 green up #18 fairway to the parking lot on a short, driveable par 4 and not play it with PLENTY of daylight left. Normally, I perceive the customer service as good to very good here, today being the exception to that rule.