White Horse Golf Club

The course was in stellar shape with fairways like memory foam feel, the greens didn’t have a blemish on any hole and the number 3 tee placement was challenging to all levels.

Also, a challenging course. Makes you better. Accuracy Is everything. Play this course!

It was a cold,windy day but the course was in really nice shape. The staff let us start as soon as we got there which it wasn't very busy on the course.I have been there 2 times before & it's been great every visit.The only thing I don't care for is the hour & 45 minutes drive one way to get there, other than that everything was great but my golfing that day.I will be back soon.

Used every club in my bag playing from the Blues today.

Fiarways are in great shape for this time of year and give the greens about a week or so to start rolling true.

Looking forward to playing here again when our club comes to visit in mid March.

Played after heavy rains and a few dry days in a row, course dried out enough to play well. Challenging no matter the conditions.

Can’t wait till drier seasons. Getting back into golf after 20 year break (family and kids do that). This course did not exist when I played way back when.

One of the jewels west of Seattle.

I’m not an experienced golfer (only been golfing for about two years. Played in California, Florida and Washington), however i noticed that this course is not ideal if you like to walk the course. There was minimal paths cut out for walking. Otherwise beautiful course.

Staff was great! Friendly and supportive. Course layout is one of the best in Washington. Considering the rain this area had the past weeks, it played great! I recommend this for all levels of players.

I've played this course for years. Through high school golf and when I worked there. The grounds crew has done an incredible job making this course the absolute best it could be. Very difficult elevated greens, lots of bunkers and hazards, crafty hole designs that will leave you contemplating if you should go for it or lay up. Definitely worth a play or two, or three. Look for the hot deals though, normal rates are a bit too high in my opinion.

Course condition was very good and greens were rolling consistently. Very affordable green fee. A little too far driving from Seattle.

I've had the opportunity to play this course many times. It is a little hassle having to take the ferry over but the shuttle service is great. The course is always in great shape and they have one of the few grass driving ranges that is in phenomenal shape. The course is challenging from the blue tees and even more difficult from the tips. I've never had a bad experience here and would recommend it as a must play.

White Horse is a tough course. Challenging landing areas, undulations, hazards and greens. You will be treated on this well manicured course.

Despite rain all morning I decided to head out and check out White Horse, and I'm glad I did! The course was a lot of fun, even in the rain. Nice wide fairways with just enough slope to make it a challenge. When the rain did let up, the course drained quickly, making for a really nice (and much better scoring) back nine. I'd recommend for sure!

Golf is a sport, and basketball is a sport. In golf, the physical exercise component of the sport has been minimized by the introduction of golf carts to carry players around. The USGA has stated that if you are riding a cart to play, then you are not playing golf, but something different that perhaps could be called cartball. After the golf cart was introduced, the design of many courses became dependent on the golf cart. White Horse is one such cart ball course. Anyone wanting to walk and play golf should probably avoid While Horse. The day before I played White Horse I played Ocean Shores Country Club in slightly under three hours. I played White Horse in slightly over four hours. That is over an hour of walking concrete paths to connect golf holes. Jack Nicklaus has a famous retort to his wife when she claimed he should walk the mall with her since he walked for a living where he replied that the difference is that he walks on grass for a living. In basketball, you can take the walking and running component out by playing in a wheelchair. Would you choose to play your basketball in a wheelchair?

I have spent most of my life in a rural environment. I see and appreciate what nature provides. I do not appreciate how White Horse is so heavily shaped. I played Discovery Bay Golf Club the day after playing White Horse. Discovery Bay has similar mountain terrain for part of the course, but looks far more natural than the heavily shaped White Horse. I suppose part of the shaping is to mimic the natural dune shapes you find on a links course at the seaside. If so, then it fails noticeably at looking like natural dunes. Old news articles say the course went into foreclosure for $5.7 million dollars. Also, that shapers claiming to be among the best in the world were brought in from Hawaii to do the shaping. Since the most successful courses being built at the time Wild Horse was being built were by Tom Doak, and by the team of Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw, I would suggest they have the best shapers. Wine Valley is another superbly shaped Washington public course that did not have to bring in shapers from Hawaii. In conclusion, Wild Horse is poorly shaped and overly done to be a naturally beautiful golfing environment.

White Horse has a deserved reputation of being difficult. Part of this reputation has to come from parts of the back nine where the terrain is a bit too extreme for good golf, and instead of shaping to ease the extremeness, it was shaped in a fashion that added difficulty. Instead of softening slopes, the slopes appear to have been shaped into more extreme slopes that give more extreme bad bounces.

Golf was developed as a fun past time, and developed that way for a long time. Unfortunately Robert Trent Jones brought on an era of difficulty overruling the fun. At the end of the last century the pendulum began to shift back to fun golf design. It appears that White Horse was built to live in a bygone era.

It's a great course with challenging holes but space for forgiveness in the drives. Had a great time!

White Horse seems to always be in one of the best shapes around. The fairways today were like country club quality.

The greens were rolling perfectly even if they might be a little difficult to read. The overall experience was great and we will definitely be back.

The front 9 is fairly tree-lined. The back nine is much more fun with some wacky short par 4's. They are some I have never played before. You can hit the fairway and still be on a huge slope. There is very little rough, it goes from fairway to long grass native in a hurry. All 18 greens are long and skinny, yes every single green is longer than it is wide. It will test your chipping game. Fun cource, would recommend.