Palouse Ridge Golf Club at Washington State University

At Palouse Ridge you can count on the course to be challenging. The fairway's landing areas can be high on the risk/reward ratio, but they are fair. If you like the drive, chip, and putt routine golf course, you might want to chose another course. If you enjoy using every club in the bag during a round, this course is for you. I play this Palouse Ridge several times a year and have always found the course in excellent conditions from tee to green. The course is designed for competitive college golf play, and is highly ranked in that category. If you want a fair and challenging golf experience, it well worth the cost. Expect to be challenged.

This is a world class, championship course. The Monterey Penninsula courses were in dog-patch condition the two times I went there. Palouse Ridge is always in tournament shape.

This course is very difficult. Greens like putting on undulating sloped asphalt with back and front edges that are shaved where your ball rolls to the abyss. Fairways steeply sloped to make them narrower than they appear. Good shots usually not rewarded.

Played Palouse Ridge at the beginning of our Eastern Washington buddies trip. Well worth the drive to Pullman. Excellent layout, very nice fairways and excellent conditioned bent grass greens. The $45 senior rate we paid included the cart and was an awesome value for a high quality golf course. A must play if you ask me.

We had lunch afterwards and the food and service was excellent.

Really fun, very challenging, good value. Emphasis on challenging. Great conditions, definitely worth it.

Green fees are expensive for the course conditions, has challenging holes but the fairways are not in great shape.
$99 for out of town rate is pretty high for a low demand for golf when students are not in school.
Hard to justify playing there often when green fees and season passes are so expensive.

It seems like every tee box, you get panoramic views of the course and beyond that stretch 50 or 60 miles.
Much of the course plays like a links course, which can make for some very interesting bank shots and strategy. And there isn’t a house in sight and only a few trees, which makes a for an unique golf experience that more resembles golf around the world than in the United States.

Shot maker course, with best conditioned grass I've had the pleasure of playing on!

Well maintained course. Lots of different challenges on each hole. Can be played by any level of ablility. A must play.

Palouse Ridge is a great golf course which is especially challenging in the wind. On this particular late September day, skies were blue, the wind was gusting at 20 mph, and the greens were fast and rolling true. Control distance and direction on most shots and it will be an enjoyable round. But if you find yourself off the beaten green path and in the tall, brown Palouse grass too often it will be a long day.

If paying full rate, play circling raven. Lots of ball above your feet, below your feet shot in the fairways

Wow! What a great day of golf. The course is setting in the middle of the Palouse with grain fields all around, just fantastic views on every hole. The staff was very friendly and we were allowed to go out about 30 minutes early. A beautiful layout in great condition. Not many flat lies and speedy greens with lots of break. I will try to play this course anytime I'm in the northwest.

We booked our tee time with the hot buy of the day with Golf Now so got an incredible rate. But that has nothing to do with the review. Palouse has become a top on my favorite courses in Washington. It rewards good shots but does not cripple a golfer that can occasionally spray a ball. For mid August the course was in incredible condition. Both fairways and greens were immaculate. Greens were fast but hitable at the same time. Definitely worth drive from western Washington and plan to do it again.

Third time played and a great deal! A good fair test of your skill. Beware greens are fast.

Challenging course with some forced carries. You must place your ball in the correct spot in the fairway to have a good shot at the green. Most fairways are sloped so pay attention to where you need to hit your tee shot. Greens are fast but roll true. Awesome course.

Looked forward to playing Palouse for a long time and it was worth the wait. Very challenging, expansive and unique as there is a rural farm like atmosphere with all of the animals, barns and fields. Bring your game as you will need it here. Very challenging!

It's a long way to travel, but I'm glad I made it out there. The course is in good shape and quite a challenge.

There aren't many trees and or white stakes so typically you can let your tee shot go, but there is plenty of danger in the landing areas.

Greens are well protected with bunkers. Sand was soft and easy to hit out of, which I think is rare these days. Greens played to medium speed and had an average amount of undulation.

Fantastic links layout with tee boxes which play fair for various skill levels.

It was my first time playing there. It's well marked, except for landing ares from tee box. A gps would be perfect. Luckily I drove the ball in the right places all day. The greens were very fast and the smoothest I've ever played on, though they really did not hold the shots I hit into them. I rolled thru most of them all day, next time, if I do not have a GPS, I will just try and land on front, though most have a bunker right there. The lunch was awesome as well. If you want to play on a course that you would see the pros play on TV, go play this place..it's first rate all the way and golf now gave me a great deal as well. In the morning, before I played the WSU course, I played the University of Idaho course, it was fun also. A great day of 36 holes, well worth the drive from Spokane

We really do enjoy this course...except one of the par 5s...snicker.
Pace of play depends on the crowd & sometimes the wind...In our case we had a "slow" player in the group......HATED IT!