Played 18 late afternoon with NickEsquire1. The course was immaculate and pace of play was good at just over 4 hours. The entire course is so well maintained and beautifully planted with decorative flowers and bushes that it reminds me more of a private country club than a public course. There are no gimmicky holes and with 4 tee choices, it has plenty of challenge for all skill levels.

Great practice facilities, a welcoming staff, reasonable fees and an excellent restaurant/bar area with big screen tv's make this one of my top 3 courses in the Portland area.

Landon Farms Golf Club Golf Course Review
Portland Oregon Golf Course Reviews

They have a tiered afternoon green fee rate that gets progressively lower the later it is in the day, it was $34 @ 306p to walk. Played in 4H, 10M with Longtee400, the course was moderately busy. We were one of the last groups to finish 18 holes @ 715p.

I have rated over 200 courses on GK and only a couple of times have I EVER rated anything a 10... Well, if these fairways aren't a 10, I don't know what would qualify! The fairways were better than the greens I played on last week, very few divots, very lush, immaculately maintained!

The rough close to the fairway is generally mowed down, lush and well kept. The rough farther off the fairway is native like a links style course and is a chip out or a lose ball waiting to happen. The tee boxes were lush, the par 3's had some divot damage, but good to excellent overall. The traps were VERY well maintained with nice, fluffy sand.

The greens had a lite top dressing that did not affect putting. They were firm and medium fast. They may have been recently rolled, it was amazing how few ball marks there were. Only negative was that because the greens were so firm, they did not hold approach shots well and even high approach shots barely left a ball mark.

Customer service was a ++, and they have a very nice restaurant onsite. Great experience overall!

Landon Farms Golf Club Golf Course Review
Portland Oregon Golf Course Reviews

Just played this last weekend at the Mid Amateur in Black Butte. I personally thought the golf course was still young as it has been redone. But when you hit good shots to greens that where so hard they wouldn't leave a mark. I thought it has potential to be a outstanding layout. But it played so fast and hard you couldn't land the ball on the green or it was gone. When you have a chip shot roll 40 feet there is something wrong. But it was a little smokey due to the fire in sisters. I thought the potential of the course itself has alot of good, but in my opinion it was any good last weekend.

Black Butte Ranch Golf Course Review
Sisters Oregon Golf Course Reviews

Played here yesterday with Nickesquire1. Hadn't been here in 10 years. This is an older course in a beautiful suburban setting with lots of trees and doglegs which makes you have to shape many shots. That part I really enjoyed. The extended dry weather has caused the rough areas to dry out and be quite thin in most areas causing challenging shots from tight lies. The greens were medium fast and rolled true though bumpy occasionally. Overall, for the price it is an okay value and worth the occasional visit.

Meriwether National Golf Club Review
Hillsboro Oregon Golf Course Reviews

i played meriwether as part of a 4 ball today. it was extremely enjoyable. firstly i would like to address the previous reviews by NICKESQUIRE1. the golf course is not 'waiting for the rainy season'. it is central line irrigation. which means the there just sprinklers up the middle of the fairways and not out in the rough. this means that when irrigating you might hit some of the rough, but for the most part you just have water hitting the fairways. it is an old style irrigation system, but it is a huge huge HUGE expense to install a new one.
anyway. back to the review. it has been a while since i played and was extremely happy with how the course played. fairways were lush and green, played real nice off them. the rough was brown due to the hot weather there has been, but gave fantastic contrast to the fairways. hard pan is part of golf, it always has been and always will. it is just part of it. you make do with it! the surrounds around greens were also lush and easy to play off. we played the north and south as our 18 holes.
i strongly disagree with NICKESQUIRE1 review of the south. it is far from a waste of money. the greens roll great. visually they might not look the most appealing in the world at times, but they roll true and good pace. at the end of the day, i dont care one bit what the greens look like if when i putt on them, they roll true. that is all that matters right??

Meriwether National Golf Club Review
Hillsboro Oregon Golf Course Reviews

Teed off @ 11:15, walked for $20 in 4 1/2 hours from the blues with Longtee400. (Riding was $34).

The greens are somewhat bumpy, but putt surprisingly well, medium fast. They hold approach shots very well. The tees are decent. The fairways are generally lush with a few areas that will produce tight lies. I wasn't in any traps, but they looked well maintained.

They obviously have chosen to let the rough go and wait on the rainy season, they have not watered it very much. The rough is brownish, strawlike hardpan in most places. This produces some long drives, but creates entirely different problems when you roll through the rough into a hazard, as I did twice today on drives that would have been in play with anything close to normal rough. The lack of rough also creates issues when you are trying to chip off it close to some greens.

The course wasn't overly busy and overall, is a good value for the price.

Meriwether National Golf Club Review
Hillsboro Oregon Golf Course Reviews

This was not my first choice today but my favorites all had tourneys. Although set in a beautiful rolling wooded area, the recent drought has had an impact on some areas. I encountered a few thin and underwatered fairway and rough areas. The tees had many divot damaged areas. The greens were rock hard and and rolling about 11-12 and had some minor bumpiness in areas.

The course is shorter and not particularly difficult but putting on some green locations was penal. That said, at $32 WR for 18, it was an ok value.

A 27 hole executive course that winds through a dense variety of single homes and condos and as a result, there are ob's in play on nearly every hole. There are few opportunities for the long hitter to play driver as there are no par 5's, shorter par 4's and longer par 3's that are quite challenging. Large trees, water and sand also dot the course.

Overall the course is in good condition and fairly lush despite recent drought conditions. The greens are smooth and medium speed. Some tee boxes have some divot damage and a few fairway areas were thin or overwatered. The sand that I played from was good.

So this is a good shorter club practice type environment or for someone with limited time to play but not a typical full golf experience.

Charbonneau Golf Club Review
Portland Oregon Golf Course Reviews

For a public course that gets a ton of play and with the recent drought conditions, the course is still very playable despite a few thin spots on fairways and rough. A few fairways areas were overwatered and balls plugged as a result but it was rare. The rough after the first cut is long and wiry.

The greens were the best part of the course though 1 or 2 had bare spots on the edges. They were mostly smooth although I repaired more than several ball marks on just about every green. The greens are quite large and undulating and the breaks ranged from very subtle to quite severe.

There is a large grass driving range, chipping and putting areas and even a second 18 hole course on site. There is a large bar/eating area but with limited food options. The staff is friendly and knowledgeable.

In my view, this is definitely a top ten value in the Portland area.

Heron Lakes Golf Club Review
Portland Oregon Golf Course Reviews

Enjoyed a nice late afternoon round with longtee400. The layout is quite interesting for an executive course. No par 5's, most of the par 4's are short and very scoreable... but the par 3's are long and demanding.

The greens were the best part of the course, they putted nicely, medium fast & firm. The tees were OK, some had some divot damage that needed repairing. The fairways were lush but thin in many areas. The rough was generally lush and could be thick in spite of not being tall. There were areas where you could see your ball from 100 yards away... then there were areas where you practically had to be over the ball to see it. The sand traps were poor, very inconsistent. I was in four and once encountered thick, deep sand, once encountered fairly hard but raked sand and twice encountered thin lies with hardpan barely under the surface.

@ $25 to walk in the late afternoon, there are definitely better alternatives available nearby for comparable $$$. Fun course to practice on, but I'll look for specials when I come back.

Charbonneau Golf Club Review
Portland Oregon Golf Course Reviews

I played the North Course years ago, but I had never played the South Course before so this was on my list to play while in Portland this week (played here on 08/29/12). The Reserve Vineyards and Golf Club has to be one of the top public 36 hole facilities in the Northwest because of the conditioning and layouts and the courses are always highly ranked courses in Oregon. Over the last couple years I have enjoyed playing John Fought designs and I was anxious to play the South Course that he designed here where there is some history, Tom Watson shot a 62 here in 2003 during the final round the Jeld-Wen Tradition. The front 9 has a parkland feel to it while the back is more secluded in the trees and numerous creeks come into play. I cannot say that there is a standout hole until getting to the back 9 and then there are a few to pick from. I played from the Blue tees (73.0/139/6809) and the stretch from #6 to #8 (582 par 5, 222 par 3, and 467 par 4) was as much distance as I could handle. The nice thing is that even with all that length there were still five short par 4's with a wedge into the green. Hole #10, #11, and #17 all could be signature holes in my opinion, but my favorite was #11 which was a 194 yard uphill par 3 that was framed by bunkers short of the green, a creek right of the green, and Northwest trees behind the green. Typical of most John Fought designs the course was forgiving off the tee and even with 5 or 6 fairway bunkers on each hole I did not have any trouble driving the golf ball in play. The difficulty came from deep greenside bunkers, uneven lies in the fairway, false fronts on the greens, and very firm and fast greens with many slopes. The greens were a pleasure to putt on and rolled true. The difficult approaches seem consistent with other Fought courses that I have played, but it seems that the South Course was a little more difficult on the approaches than his other designs. Other features that I liked included shared fairways and shared greens, something that if used occasionally I think can be a good idea, and that the course would have been an easy walk. I did not care for the false fronts as I found myself trying to hit the perfect shot to get it close which brought trouble into play and I did not think the course was very easy to play for the first time. Overall, it is worth a play (just do not expect to score unless hitting the irons very well) and the pace of play mid-week was great at 3.5 hours. I paid $65 to ride during the week, which is not cheap, but considering that Pumpkin is quite a bit more expensive the Reserve is a good value for a premium course in Portland.

The Reserve Vinyards Golf Club Review
Portland Oregon Golf Course Reviews

This course is ran by the city of Portland & gets alot of play. Lots of water and tall grass that are just waiting to add strokes to your scorecard in droves if you are not straight and accurate from tee to green on many holes. The greens are big and undulating with subtle to moderate break on most putts.

The greens were definitely not as good as they were several weeks ago when I first played here, the whole area could use some rain... still firm/medium fast but many were bumpy today. Several tees, fairways and rough areas had burned spots from the recent heat wave, but it looked like they were watering aggressively and trying to keep them to a minimum. This leads to some areas of the fairway where the your tee shot will back up or plug, and other areas where the ball will run 50-75 yards and you usually cannot tell from the tee which to expect.

Overall, the fairways & rough were decent, but most holes had a few areas that were obviously not in as good a condition as areas close by. The tees are more than adequate but nothing to brag about. The traps were generally in good condition and had been recently raked.

One of the better public courses in the Portland area, it will definitely stay in my rotation.

Heron Lakes Golf Club Review
Portland Oregon Golf Course Reviews