Eastmoreland Golf Course

Wife and I played here for the first time. The front nine will challenge you ( or it did us anyway) with it's length and the back nine is loaded with water and challenging doglegs. The scenery and the trees are beautiful, oh the trees ! If you love birds you will love it. The course is like an idyllic park setting. We had a wonderful time. The greens had been aerated recently and were still a bit bumpy and sandy but the people we played with were regulars and said the the new superintendent has restored the greens to greatness and we plan to return in a month or so. The greens are large and undulating, the fiarways well mowed and cared for, the rough is lush and bunkers raked and neat, albeit a few are under reconstruction but no worries. The proshop is well stocked and the staff impressively friendly.

We are glad we made the trip to play this course and will return and urge any and all to play this public gem.

The course was in great shape for this early in the season. I love playing this course but it's challenging due to the technical shots required of narrow fairways, large trees, and hazards. The staff, as always, was very friendly. The club house is a nice place for a drink after the round.

par 4s tree lined greens were well kept a couple of the fairways you could not see the greens ,on the par5 on your second shot uphill you can`t see the fairway but a 3-wood is rewarding

Course was almost unplayable, geese outnumber people 500 to 1 and it shows on the course (all over the course)

At a course like this, you expect it to be a little slow. They stack tee times and it attracts a lot of new golfers so it can be slow, which is fine at certain times. My complaint for my round last night was it took 5 hours to play 18, because the group in front of us was taking it far to seriously and was one of the slowest groups I've ever been behind. To make it better they didn't let us play through obviously, they had no one in front of them, and the marshal was never seen. I wish they would manage the course better if they're going to have tee times every 7 minutes.

Portland is fortunate to have this interesting course. Because of it popularity it gets a lot of play. Many of the holes are tight and the trees come into play. Thirteen is it's signature hole a short par five requiring good strategy. You won't forget this hole. It's an old style course with the hole in front of you, not a target golf course. It has a large practice green to use for putting and chipping practice and an area to hit short irons for practice. 17 is a fun par three all over water to a narrow green. It can make or break your round. The greens putt okay but are bumpy at times because it gets so much play. I have played the course more than 50 times.

But ALL Willamette Valley courses are soggy in the rainy season, i.e. from November through April or May. Eastmoreland, Cross Creek (a bit better because grass is better maintained; greens are well-sanded and pretty dry); Langdon Farms (works on drainage); Pumpkin Ridge (just a better course): all are wet and swampy in the winter.
Play the coast! Gearhart, Sandpines, Ocean Dunes, Bandon: all are built on sand and drain almost immediately for great winter conditions.

Needs work as any city course does. Could be so much more with a little effort, but the city wrings out all the dollars it can by skimping on maintenance.