RedTail Golf Center

To me, the course is very challenging. That said, the rough was a little longer than it should be (and yes, I should hit the ball to the fairway), to the point you couldn’t see the ball if it was more than 10 feet away. This, I believe contributed to a little longer round, just looking for my playing partners golf balls or my own.

Later in the season I’ll give this course another shot, it’s a challenge and I think I can do better than I did.

The layout is nice. The course is challenging. The greens are probably the best kept part of the course and they are not great. It drains horribly! I don’t think anything around is worse. Also they clover, dandelions, and crab grass throughout. Notorious for slow play, good luck getting around in less than 4.5 hours! It’s a shame! It could be rad, instead it’s sad. 😂

Course is in rough shape as of 3/15/22. Doesn’t drain well, and they don’t maintain heat t well. Bunkers haven’t been touched it a while, crusty firm. Greens are patchy. Lots of weeds and crab grass in fairways and tee boxes. The usual you’d expect at red tail. It’s a shame cuz it’s a nice layout. It will get better as we get into summer and stuff grows back but they never keep it up that well.

After 8 years I finally tried RedTail. Usually the massive crowds, slow play, and unkept course conditions you can see from the putting green kept me away.

But today it was raining, freezing, cheap, and... Empty. Let's try it!

I loved the course. It's interesting challenging and could be Really good. Just as good as it's proshop and range.

It's a shame every tee box is littered in broken tees. The drainage is poor, and the grass is spotty, a variety, and ungroomed. Some greens were fair others... Questionable.

But I had fun. And it was empty.

Course was suffering from the rain, a lot of muddy fairways, just not great drainage.

I know this is a city course, and a private management company that is doing very well. I noticed a dozen people picking up range balls that we're imbedded I’d like to think they were the operator of range staff and not city employees?

It would be nice to see half of that labor directed at improving traps desperately needing water drainage and some evidence of equipment which is attempting to improve some poorly maintained traps. It seems only the private clubs can afford to invest in this seasonal and ideally daily effort to run an ATV around them.

I appreciate the efforts Portland parks has steadily improved problem areas needing better drainage and how tricky that balance of projects vs. daily maintenance must be in the years I’ve been playing here. The grounds people are hard working and always very considerate, could they find a youth to volunteer to run an ATV around a side of the tracks traps for a few rounds of golf.? I imagine it’s complicated to get a volunteer to do something like this?

Just a hope that if it were possible and not yet considered.

I would have happily done it 40 years ago!